Brett Hodgdon
piano

Pianist Brett Hodgdon is a versatile collaborative artist and coach living in the Boston area. He has performed both song and instrumental recitals at venues throughout the United States, including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory (NEC), and Auer Hall at Indiana University, Bloomington. Most recently, he has appeared with NEC’s Contemporary Ensemble for the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s Milosz Songs for soprano and piano. He has participated in numerous performances of the vocal works of composer Mohammed Fairouz, and has also performed frequently as a member of a graduate piano quartet at NEC. Upcoming engagements include performances at the Aspen Music Festival, the Token Creek Chamber Festival, and the Emmanuel Music Schumann Chamber Series.

Away from the recital stage, Hodgdon is the vocal director and music advisor for Guerilla Opera, a Boston-based contemporary chamber opera company. In April 2008, he participated in the company’s world premiere performance of Andy Vores’ No Exit, and will coach the world premieres of several operas for the group’s upcoming season. He has served as assistant music director for the Boston Opera Collaborative’s 2007 performance of Dialogues of the Carmelites. Currently, he serves as a music coach for the NEC Undergraduate Opera Company, as well as the Opera Seminar for graduate students. He also serves as rehearsal pianist for the PALS Children’s Chorus (Brookline, MA) and for Emmanuel Music, where he was recently named a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow for the 2008-09 season.

A doctoral candidate at New England Conservatory, Hodgdon has studied collaborative piano with Irma Vallecillo, Cameron Stowe, and John Moriarty. Before moving to Boston, he received the MM and BM degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where his principal teachers were Andrew Harley, Andrew Willis, and Benton Hess.