HOCKET's Composer/Performer Initiative
HOCKET's Composer/Performer Initiative is a commissioning project focused on cultivating new works from today's most exciting composer/performers. HOCKET will commission composer/performers to write a new pieces that features the commissioned composer on their instrument plus HOCKET. These new trios will be premiered and then recorded with the goal of highlighting the creativity and virtuosity of these varied artists.
2021 Composer/Performer Commissions
Nick Bentz - ataxia for violin and piano four-hands
Alexander Elliott Miller - Aftermath for electric guitar and piano four-hands
2018 Composer/Performer Commissions
Hitomi Oba - taste, inaugurate! for tenor saxophone and piano four-hands
Derek Tywoniuk - Byrd/Cage for vibraphone and piano four-hands
like (Write it!) like disaster for percussion, piano, toy piano, melodicas, and voice
