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Artist
Francesco Hoch
2+ albums
swissswitzerland
about
Francesco Hoch was born in Lugano in 1943. After graduating from teachers' training school he took a degree in composition, with the highest honors, under Franco Donatoni and in art song with Ada Jesi at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan, where he also studied conducting with Franco Caracciolo and Mario Gusella. He was involved in research at the phonology laboratory of the Italian National Radio (RAI) in Milan and attended the composition courses even in Padua, in 1967, by Domenico Guaccero, Franco Donatoni, and Sylvano Bussotti, as well as those of Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti at Darmstadt in 1970. Hoch has been composing since 1968. After experimenting with indeterminacy and improvisation, he has elaborated his own style of "figural" music. He has composed numerous works for a variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles, chamber and symphony orchestras, choir, children's voice, electronic music and visual events including live performances, exhibits, dance and television productions, which have been performed and broadcast throughout and outside Europe, recorded on disc and filmed on television. He has given lectures, courses and seminars in several countries and has published writings on contemporary music. His composition Prove concertanti for orchestra represented Switzerland in 1973 at the International Tribune of Composers in Paris. In 1974 he was invited by the Accademia Chigiana of Siena to act as a teaching assistant for the summer graduate cour
