Dorothy E Hindman
Assoc. Professor

About Me
Quote
“It’s my job to share everything I know with young artists, which is a big responsibility. I am still so excited about everything that has to do with music, and everything new I learn I want to share with the people closest to me, namely, my students. In turn, I have really high expectations of them. There is a certain amount of work that I expect, but I also expect them to nourish the artist that they are, and to be passionate about what they are doing.”
Biography
Dr. Dorothy Hindman is a native of Miami and Associate Professor of Composition at the FROST School of Music. Dr. Hindman’s music boasts a blend of punk/grunge with a spectralist sensibility. It has been described as “bright with energy and a lilting lyricism” (New York Classical Review), “dramatic, highly strung” (Fanfare), “varied, utterly rich and sung with purpose and heart” (Huffington Post), “powerful and skillfully conceived” (The Miami Herald), and “music of terrific romantic gesture” (The Buffalo News).
Dr. Hindman’s music has received over 350 performances to date, spanning 30 states and 16 countries, including Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, Boston’s Jordan Hall, the American Academy in Rome, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, Berlin’s BKA-Theater, and Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center. Her numerous festival performances include the Havana Contemporary Music Festival, Australian Flute Festival, 2015 Birmingham New Music Festival, Nuovi Spazi Musicali Festival, Imagine, and others.
Dr. Hindman has worked with and composed for the world’s preeminent new music performers, among them, Bent Frequency (Atlanta), PULSE (Miami), Empire City Men’s Chorus (NYC), dal niente (Chicago), the Caraval String Quartet (NYC), the Corona Guitar Kvartet (Denmark), Bang-on-a-Can bassist Robert Black, cellist Craig Hultgren, percussionist Stuart Gerber, and orchestras including the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra (reading session), the Alabama Symphony, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, and the North Florida Symphony Orchestra. Her installation Projections and Reflections with artist Sally Johnson has been exhibited in multiple museums throughout the Southeast.
Dr. Hindman has been new music critic for the Miami Herald and South Florida Classical Review, and created and hosted WVUM’s Po Mo Radio Show, devoted to classical music written after 1980.
Dr. Hindman’s many awards include Iron Composer 2015, a 2015 Artist Access Grant from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, a 2015 University of Miami Provost Research Award, NoteNova Choral Competition, Almquist Choral Composition Award, Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for Opera, International Society of Bassists Solo Composition Competition, ASCA/National Symphony Orchestra/Kennedy Center Commission Competition, G. Schirmer 1997 Young Americans Choral Competition, an Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, and the NACUSA Young Composers Competition.
Dr. Hindman has been guest faculty at 2016 Summer Composition Intensive at St. Mary’s College, the 2016 Miami International Piano Festival Academy, and the 2015 AmiCa Credenze POP Festival in Sicily. Her artist residencies include 2017 and 2009 Seaside Escape to Create Fellowships, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, the Visby [Sweden] International Centre for Composers, and Composer-in-Residence for the Goliard Ensemble (NYC).
Dr. Hindman’s solo CD Tapping the Furnace received much critical acclaim; Kulturni Magazin UNI said, “Hindman offers extraordinary glimpses into interesting topics, concepts of modernity and structured complexity. … for many listeners the composer’s first CD Tapping The Furnace represents a remarkable discovery.” Her work is the title track on Corona Guitar Kvartet’s Taut (2015) on Albany. Her double CD Tightly Wound: Music for Strings was released on innova in January 2017. Hindman’s nine other CDs are on Albany, Capstone and Living Artists. Her cores are published by Subito, NoteNova, and dorn/Needham.
Honors & Acknowledgements
Professional Experience
Career Highlights
- A full concert of Hindman’s music presented at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall presented in March 2016
- 350 Concerts in 30 states and 16 countries
- Music performed by some of the world’s top new music artists and ensembles
- New music critic for the Miami Herald and South Florida Classical Review
- Hosted WVUM’s Po Mo Show, a program devoted to current classical music
Honors, Awards & Competitions
- Winner: Iron Composer 2015
- 2015 Artist Access Grant from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
- 2015 University of Miami Provost Research Award
- Winner: Almquist Choral Composition Award
- Honorable Mention Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for Opera
- Winner: International Society for Double Bassists Composition Competition
Compositions (selected)
Orchestral
- Strata Piano Concerto, 2005/17.
- Urban Myths for youth orchestra in three movements: The Babysitter, Roswell, and The Hook, 2009.
- Setting Century in three movements, 2003.
- Magic City, 1999.
Opera
- Louise: the Story of a Magdalen, libretto by Sally M. Gall, 2000.
Band
- Fission, 2013.
Solo Instrumental
- Rough Ride for speaking cello solo, 2016
- Tapping the Furnace for percussion solo for Evelyn Glennie, Scott Deal and Stuart Gerber, 2006
- Time Management for double bass, 2004
- “drowningXnumbers” for amplified cello, 1994-1995.
Chamber Ensemble
- R.I.P.T for saxophone and percussion, 2014
- Heroic Measures for clarinet, violin and piano, 2014
- Mechanisms for flute ensemble, 2012
- Cascade for saxophone ensemble, 2012
- The Road to Damascus for string quartet, 2010
- Drift for saxophone quartet, 2002.
- Setting Century for Pierrot ensemble, 1999.
Keyboard
- fin de cycle for piano and tape, 1997.
- Forward Looking Back piano suite, 1991-1992.
Choral
- You Shall Not Go Down for men’s chorus, 2010
- Prothalamia for men’s chorus and organ, 2010
Vocal/Vocal with Ensemble
- The Pillow Book for mezzo soprano, alto saxophone, violin, cello and piano, 2008.
Electronics
- 1000 Swimmers in the Canals for 2 electric guitars, keyboard, and live processing, 2013
- Sound/Water for cello and digital media, 2011
- The Wall Calls to Me for digital media (mp3) and 8 channels, for visual art installation by Sally Johnson, 10:00 running continuously, 2010.
- Fantasia for Karen Alone for violin and digital media 2010.
- Italian Dreams for digital media (mp3), for video installation by Carrie Mae Weems, 8:00, 2006.
Recordings (selected)
- Tapping the Furnace (innova)
- Tightly Wound: Music for Strings (innova)
- Taut (Albany)
- Musings: Society of Composers, Inc. Series, no. 22 (Capstone)
- Masterworks of the New Era: ERMMedia, Vol. 7
- In Yet Longer Light’s Delay: Music from the Setting Century (Living Artist)
Publications (selected)
Scores
- Subito Music Distributors: Heroic Measures, Tapping the Furnace, “drowningXnumbers”, Needlepoint
- Notenova: Incarnation
- dorn/Needham: Big Fun, Cascade, Lost in Translation, Drift
Book Entries and Articles:
- Hindman, Dorothy. “Composer.” Women and Music in America Since 1900. Vol. One, A-K, ed. Kristine H. Burns. Greenwood Press: Connecticut, 2002
- Hindman, Dorothy. “Meeting Community and Campus Needs through Service Learning and Beginning Music Theory,” College Music Symposium, Vols. 49-50, Fall 2010
As new music critic, over 60 Articles/Reviews for the South Florida Classical Review and The Miami Herald, including (selected):
- Hindman, Dorothy. “New World Symphony does a lively 18 Musicians by Reich,” The Miami Herald, April 20, 2014
- Hindman, Dorothy. “Music Thrills Performers” Preview Article/Interview with Michael Tilson Thomas for Making the Right Choices: A John Cage Celebration, The Miami Herald, February 5, 2013
- Hindman, Dorothy. “De Leeuw, New World serve up powerful experience with Messiaen’s epic ‘Turangalîla,’” The Miami Herald, March 18, 2012