Susanna Hancock Curriculum Vitae 11 Maysville Ave. susannahancockmusic.com Mt. Sterling, KY 40353 [email protected] (321) 759-2594 [email protected] B I O G R A P H I C A L O V E R V I E W Susanna Hancock is an Asian-American composer whose works explore color, process, and acoustic phenomena. Her music draws from a wide array of influences including minimalism, spectralism, folk, and electronic mediums. Susanna’s music has been played by the JACK Quartet, ZAFA Collective, and Metropolis Ensemble, and members of the St. Louis Symphony. Her compositions have been featured in concerts and festivals throughout the world including the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival and Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece. Susanna is currently an Artist in Residence at National Sawdust with Kinds of Kings, a composer collective dedicated to making the music community a more equitable and inclusive space. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Terroir New Music, a concert/event series that pairs the music of living composers with craft food and drink. E D U C A T I O N 2016 Master of Music Music Theory & Composition New York University | Steinhardt GPA: 4.0, Summa Cum Laude 2014 Bachelor of Music Acoustic/Electronic Composition, Bassoon Performance University of South Florida GPA: 3.97, Summa Cum Laude, With Honors 2010 Associate of Arts Eastern Florida State College (Formerly Brevard Community College) GPA: 4.0, Summa Cum Laude, With Honors *Conferred upon high school graduation P R I V A T E I N S T R U C T I O N C O M P O S I T I O N 2015 – 2016 JULIA WOLFE | Associate Professor of Music Composition, NYU 2014 – 2015 MICHAEL GORDON | Artist Faculty Member, NYU 2010 – 2014 BALJINDER SEKHON | Assistant Professor of Composition (Former), USF 2010 – 2014 PAUL RELLER | Associate Professor of Composition / Director of SYCOM, USF 2010 CHAN JI KIM | Associate Professor of Music, Eastern Florida State College 2010 MICHAEL DEALL | Visiting Professor of Music (Former), Eastern Florida State College SUSANNA HANCOCK | CURRICULUM VITAE | PAGE 2 B A S S O O N 2014 – 2016 GINA CUFFARI | Artist Faculty Member, NYU 2010 – 2014 JOHN KEHAYAS | Adjunct Professor, USF; Bassoon/Contra, The Florida Orchestra 2008 – 2010 MICHAEL SPERR | Adjunct Professor, Columbia College R E C E N T C O M M I S S I O N S 2021 [untitled] | Eighth Blackbird & The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra – concerto for Pierrot ensemble and full orchestra 2021 [untitled] | Evan Runyon & Large Furniture - double bass quartet (opt. solo bass + pre-recorded tape) 2021 super heavy | Adam Groh & Western Carolina University - percussion quartet 2020 [untitled] | The Penn State Glee Club - TTBB chorus 2020 Towards Home | Rubiks Collective - fl, vnc, perc, pno 2020 YELLOW | The Nouveau Classical Project - pierrot ensemble + percussion + soprano 2019 thunder splits the rift | Jonathan Payne - solo tuba 2019 HIATUS | ~Nois - saxophone quartet (SATB) A W A R D S & H O N O R S 2019 Awarded: “Best Weird Fruit”- Critic’s Choice for Terroir New Music Programming 2018 Awarded: Arts Council of Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant 2017 Awarded: ShoutHouse Call for Scores Finalist 2017 Awarded: Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival Fellowship (ASCAP) 2017 Awarded: ASCAP Morton Gould Finalist 2016 Selected: LA Philharmonic’s National Composers Institute 2016 Awarded: NYU Graduate Professional Development Grant 2016 Awarded: ASCAP Plus Award 2016 Selected: Vox Novus / Composers Voice Concert Series 2015 Selected: NYU Orchestral Commission 2014 Selected: NYU Orchestral Reading Call for Scores 2013 Selected: Dissonart Ensemble Call for Scores 2013 - 2014 Awarded: Emma and Julius Hawkins Music Theory Scholarship 2013 Selected: Composer-in-Residence, Taneycomo Music Festival 2012 Inducted: Pi Kappa Lambda (Music Honor Society) 2010 - 2013 Awarded: Fred and Kay Meyer Scholarship in Musical Excellence 2010 - 2014 Awarded: USF School of Music Talent Grant 2010 Awarded: USF School of Music Composition Merit Award 2010 - 2014 Awarded: USF Tradition of Excellence Scholarship 2010 - 2014 Awarded: Bright Futures Scholarship 2010 Inducted: Phi Theta Kappa 2010 Awarded: National Merit Scholar (Honor Society) SUSANNA HANCOCK | CURRICULUM VITAE | PAGE 3 R E C O R D I N G S (COMPOSITION) 2020 Towards Home Rubiks Collective (New Amsterdam) - [Untitled] (2019) 2019 Afterimage (Cedille Records) ~Nois Saxophone Quartet - HIATUS (2019) F E S T I V A L S / R E S I D E N C I E S 2019-2020 National Sawdust : Artist in Residence 2017 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival : Composition Fellow M E D I A / P R E S S C O V E R A G E 23 Oct 2019 Podcast : New Music with Susanna Hancock and Tyler Kline Garine Adams for Women Who Art 6 Nov 2019 Review : ~Nois Celebrates Music by Kinds of Kings at Roulette Aaron Wolf for I Care if You Listen 29 Oct 2019 Review : Afterimage: Kinds of Kings, ~Nois, and Wide-Ranging Musical Styles at Roulette Vanessa Ague for The Road to Sound 24 July 2019 Announcement : National Sawdust Artist Residency 15 July 2019 Podcast : Upper Middle Classical / Susanna Hancock Michael Vince for Adagio for Things 6 Feb 2019 Profile : Tampa's Terroir New Music embraces Bay area composers, culinarians in tasty ways Ray Roa for Creative Loafing Tampa 9 Dec 2018 Review : In Review – Kinds of Kings Brin Solomon for National Sawdust Log 17 Oct 2018 Listing : Desdemona Quartet (Goings on About Town) Steven Smith for the New Yorker T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E 2016-2019 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: Instructor of Aural Theory Courses taught: Aural Skills I (MUT1241) : Fall, 4 Sections Aural Skills II (MUT1242) : Spring, 4 Sections SUSANNA HANCOCK | CURRICULUM VITAE | PAGE 4 Aural Skills III (MUT2246) : Fall, 1 Section Aural Skills IV (MUT2247) : Spring, 1 Section Approx. Number of Students per Semester: 90 Duties include: - Designing syllabi and curricula for a full course sequence (Aural Theory I – IV). - Researching and preparing a wide variety of musical material to be implemented in class. - Teaching and demonstrating to students through lecture, singing, and playing piano. - Facilitating active learning through guided and self-guided activities such as group singing and game-based activities. - Drafting, assigning, and grading a variety of assignments and exams, including dictation, prepared singing, sight singing, transcribing projects, and computer-based modules. Textbook Familiarities: - Murphy, Phillips, Marvin, and Clendinning: The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills (Third Edition - Karpinski and Kram: Anthology for Sight Singing (First and Second Editions) - Rogers and Ottman: Music for Sight Singing (Ninth Edition) Software Familiarities: - Auralia (Rising Software) - MacGAMUT 6 (Ann K. Blombach, MacGAMUT Music Software International) 2016- 2019 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: Young Composers Program, Instructor 16-week music composition course offered to high school students. 3 terms (Fall, Spring, Summer), 1 section ea. Duties include: - Designing a syllabus and curriculum, with consideration to interests of the students. - Teaching students how to properly notate and digitally engrave music. - Teaching students how to sketch musical ideas and expand them through various techniques of transformation and development. - Teaching a survey of musical periods, composers, and techniques (Baroque – present). - Teaching orchestration and instrumentation. - Compiling and providing listings of potential opportunities for young composers. - Producing a final concert for students’ works to be performed and recorded with high quality audio and video. 2018 ARTS4ALL (Formerly VSA of FLORIDA) | Artist-Teacher in Residence Duties included: - Creating a concentrated, effective, and accessible music curriculum for students with special abilities. - Teaching and managing a classroom of students with a broad range of physical, mental, emotional, and sensory capabilities and needs. - Facilitating musical learning and participation in both sung and instrumental formats through targeted and integrative approaches such as learning by rote, by ear, and SUSANNA HANCOCK | CURRICULUM VITAE | PAGE 5 through call and response. - Encouraging musical exploration and team building through musical games. - Conducting and producing a final concert for friends and family of students in the course. 2010-2014 PRIVATE MUSIC THEORY TUTOR Duties included: - Teaching high school and college level students music theory at various levels, ranging from basic musical knowledge through advanced musical analysis. 2011, 2012 THE GREAT AMERICAN TEACH-IN Duties included: - Educating elementary students on classical music and bassoon through musical performances, lecture, and open discussion. - Curating and assembling a musical program suitable and appealing to young audiences by selecting musical pieces, composing new pieces, and arranging pop songs. - Recruiting performers, and scheduling and conducting rehearsals. 2012 RICK ROBINSON’S CUT TIME EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR Duties included: - Educating elementary students on classical music literature and instruments through musical performances, demonstration, lecture, and open discussion. R E L A T E D E X P E R I E N C E 2017-present TERROIR NEW MUSIC | Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director Duties include: - Curating and producing a full series of 5 – 6 concerts per year. - Fundraising and monitoring finances of entire organization. - Overseeing logistics of each concert by booking venues, scheduling rehearsals, recruiting performers, and coordinating equipment transportation. - Creating