Hank Hehmsoth
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Hank Hehmsoth

American jazz pianist, composer, scholar, visual artist, and film score composer.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of North Texas jazz2 3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Texas at Austin master's degree; music2 4
  • Date not recordedEastman School of Music jazz2

Career

Occupation: university teacher, musician, composer, academic, writer, visual artist, pianist, recording artist.6 11

  • Date not recordedWorked at Texas State University5 6
  • Date not recordedFounded Time Space Fabrics7
  • Date not recordedFounded H Project Performing Arts Association8
  • Date not recordedFounder9 10

Known for: Blu-Escape, Scary Movie (1991 film score), Exit, Night Rhythms, A Night of Chick Corea, Creativity: The Myth and the Role of Research in Creative Work, Global Jazz: Pushing its Boundaries with Harmonic, Metric, and Instrumental Devices, Carlos' n Charlie's, Two Desert Dances.12

Awards

  • 2019Berger-Carter-Berger Award13 20
  • 2016Fulbright Scholarship13 19
  • 2013Fulbright Scholarship13 19
  • 2012Composer Assistance Program for Carlos' n Charlie's13 16
  • 2012Norton Stevens Fellowship13 18
  • 2010First Place – NACUSA Texas Composition Competition13 17
  • 2010Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Honorable Mention13 16
  • 1979National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Fellowship13 15
  • Date not recordedMacDowell Fellowship13 14