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- Member of the Juilliard School 's Music Advancement Program
- Resident Artistic Partner ( Starting September 1, 2024 )
The New Jersey Symphony welcomes Allison Loggins-Hull as its next Resident Artistic Partner, a position that Daniel Bernard Roumain pioneered and grew over the last three years. In this role, Allison will partner with artistic leadership and add her unique perspective and experiences to the artistic planning process. In addition, her work Can You See?, originally written for the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Players, will be presented in its full-orchestra version recently premiered by The Cleveland Orchestra during the Brahms and Chopin concerts in mid-February 2025.
Biography
Celebrated as a musical "powerhouse" (The Washington Post), Allison Loggins-Hull is a composer, flutist, and producer whose work defies genre, from symphonic music to film scores, chamber and electronic music. Her music is often resonant with social and political themes of the current moment, encompassing reflections of motherhood, Blackness, and cultural identity.
Her signature style of composing for orchestra is characterized by unique sonic effects sometimes compared to the sounds of a synthesizer, while her themes draw deeply on community, culture and life experience. She is increasingly associated with Afrofuturism, a cultural movement blending African heritage with science fiction and technology, envisioning alternative futures and narratives of empowerment for people of African descent. She formed the groundbreaking duo Flutronix alongside Nathalie Joachim, and has performed as an accompanist to major pop acts including Lizzo and Frank Ocean.
Loggins-Hull is halfway through an unprecedented three years as the Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow with The Cleveland Orchestra, a composition and community engagement initiative that focuses the narratives and history of Cleveland through the prism of one of the world's great orchestras, culminating in three world premieres. She is also the Artist-in-Residence at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland and performs with Alicia Hall Moran and Gabriella Martinez for Diametrically Composed, a concert and commissioning initiative emphasizing the bond between creativity and motherhood.
Recent premieres include Ban for flute/piccolo/digital stomp box and string quartet for Apollo Chamber Players; Sum of Our Parts, a new band work for a consortium led by Arizona State University Wind Ensemble; a chamber work for The Cleveland Orchestra; and Wonder, an orchestral work for the National Orchestral Institute. She is currently composing a Rhapsody for flute and orchestra to be performed by The Knights, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Symphony in 2025.
In recent years, Loggins-Hull performed with Lizzo at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards Show and at the 2023 Met Gala, where she led an ensemble of flutists. The 2022-2023 season brought The Cleveland Orchestra's premiere of her work Can You See?, a play on The Star-Spangled Banner that reflects on the complicated history of the United States, capturing the tensions in its purpose, the lives lost in its conflicts and the responsibilities of those still living today.
As a performer on film scores, Loggins-Hull was co-principal flutist on the soundtracks for Creed III and Disney's 2019 remake of The Lion King, working closely with Hans Zimmer. She was a co-producer of Nathalie Joachim's celebrated album Fanm d'Ayiti, which was nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY for Best World Music Album. Flutronix also contributed to Third Coast Percussion's GRAMMY-nominated album Perspectives. On the small screen, she has been featured in an internationally broadcast ESPN Super Bowl commercial, the 62nd annual GRAMMYs Award Show and the Black Girls Rock! Awards Show. Continuing her work in film, Loggins-Hull composed the score for Bring Them Back, a 2019 award-winning documentary about the legendary dancer Maurice Hines directed by Jon Carluccio and executive produced by Debbie Allen.
With Nathalie Joachim, Loggins-Hull co-founded Flutronix in 2008, which has been praised by The Wall Street Journal for being able "to redefine the instrument" and for "redefining the flute and modernizing its sound by hauling it squarely into the world of popular music" (MTV). Flutronix has released two full studio albums (Flutronix and 2.0), a live album (Live From the Attucks Theatre), and an EP (City of Breat h). In recent years the duo has performed with and been commissioned by the likes of Third Coast Percussion, the Cincinnati Symphony, Carolina Performing Arts, and several other notable performers and arts organizations.
Allison Loggins-Hull is a former faculty member of The Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program and teaching artist at The Juilliard School's Global Ventures. From 2018-2022, Allison Loggins-Hull served on the flute faculty of The John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. Born in Chicago, she lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey.
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- Youth Orchestra Associate Conductor & Curriculum Specialist
Terrence Thornhill is the Assistant Conductor & Curriculum Specialist for the New Jersey Symphony Youth Orchestras, working closely with Artistic Director Diego García. Thornhill also serves as the instrumental music director at Kent Place School in Summit. Thornhill earned his bachelor's degree in music education at Montclair State University, studying cello with Nicholas Tzavaras, cellist of the Shanghai Quartet. He received his master's degree in cello performance from SUNY Purchase College, studying cello with Julia Lichten, cellist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He also studied conducting with Ken Lam, conductor of the Charleston Symphony and Illinois Symphony Orchestra.
As an educator, Thornhill maintains a diverse private cello studio in the New York metro area, teaching students from young children to adults. In addition to his private studio, He is the conductor of the Varsity Youth Orchestra, JCC String Camerata and Harambee Chamber Orchestra, which is dedicated to performing work by underrepresented composers, specifically composers of color and women, while raising money for community passion projects. Thornhill is an original teaching artist and lead conductor for the Paterson Music Project, an El Sistema program serving over 250 students in Paterson, and the lead conductor at the Opportunity Music Project, which serves El Sistema students in New York City.
Thornhill's credits include the inaugural John J. Cali School of Music Alumni Achievement Award in 2018. The same year, Thornhill was selected for the faculty at the Youth Orchestras of Los Angeles National El Sistema Festival sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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- Music Director / the Jaqua Foundation Chair
Xian Zhang is currently in her eighth season as Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony, who celebrated their centennial last season. Zhang also holds the positions of Principal Guest Conductor of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emeritus of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, having previously held the position of Music Director between 2009-2016.
In high demand as a guest conductor, Zhang juggles an exceptionally busy diary of guest engagements alongside her titled commitments. Throughout 2023-24, she conducts Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Anthony Minghella's acclaimed production features a starry cast with Aleksandra Kurzak, Eleanora Buratto and Asmik Grigorian sharing the role of Cio-Cio-San, and Matthew Polezani as Pinkerton.
Following a busy summer 2023 season which saw her conducting Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, Zhang's upcoming symphonic highlights include returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Houston Symphony, Orchestra of St Luke's, and National Symphony Orchestra DC. Zhang remains a popular guest of London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, NAC Ottawa, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Belgian National Orchestra, and Norwegian Opera where she returned last season for Puccini's Tosca.
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