Discipline: Music Composition

Warner Hutchison

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Las Cruces, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973, 1974
Warner Hutchison is an American composer and pianist. He was professor and composer-in-residence and taught horn, composition, theory, and music history at New Mexico State University for three decades. He was Music Department Chairman for five years, during which a new $6 million Music Center and Recital Hall were built. Dr. Hutchison was twice at MacDowell, and at the Ernest Bloch Composers Symposium, and has appeared as guest composer in various concerts nationwide sponsored by the Meet the Composer series. As a composer, his catalogue of over 270 works covers a wide range of forms, including orchestra, band, choral, chamber music, electronic music, and stage works. Some 50 works have been published by Belwin, Carl Fischer, European American, Kjos, Lorenz, and others, and his works have been performed widely at various music festivals and new music symposia in the U.S., Canada, Japan, the Scandinavian countries, Russia, and throughout Europe. World premieres include those at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, NY; and commissions by the US Air Force Heritage of America Band. In 2005, he received his 32nd annual ASCAP award.

Studios

Chapman

Warner Hutchison worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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