Discipline: Music Composition

Joel Hoffman

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: La Grange, KY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987, 1988, 2011

Joel Hoffman is a composer from Cincinnati, OH (originally from Vancouver). While at MacDowell, he worked on two string quartets. He was also awarded a residency at the Aaron Copland house, where he continued composition projects.

Studios

MacDowell

Joel Hoffman worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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