Brian Hulse
Brian Hulse is Associate Professor of Theory and Composition at the College of William & Mary (U.S.). He holds degrees from the University of Utah (B.M.), University of Illinois (M.M.), and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1999). Hulse’s compositions include works for chamber and choral ensembles, as well as several chamber operas, and have received awards from BMI, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Harvard University, and other organizations. Noted ensembles which have performed and/or commissioned his music include Flexible Music Ensemble, Duo 46, Speculum Musicae, 20th Century Unlimited, the Sudbury Guitar Trio, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Rire-Woodbury Dance Company, the Harvard Glee Club, and the HBO series “The Sopranos.” He served as Composer-in-Residence for Intermezzo: the New England Chamber Opera Series, and directed the composition program at the soundSCAPE Festival for eight years. His CD Pseudosynthesis appears on Albany Records. Another CD, with conductor Paul Bhasin, is forthcoming on Centaur Records.
As a music theorist Hulse has published articles and given papers on topics such as repetition, temporality, minimalism, tonality, contemporary composition techniques, Qawwali music, the writings of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, and musical ramifications of Eastern philosophy. His publications appear in Perspectives of New Music, the Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and GAMUT, Deleuze Studies (forthcoming), among others, and he has given papers at universities and at theory and ethnomusicology conferences throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. His co-edited volume Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music is published by Ashgate.