Faculty: Composition

Hubert Howe
Professor, the Graduate Center
(PhD, Princeton)


Music Department
Graduate Center, CUNY                             
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Hubert.Howe@qc.cuny.edu

Hubert Howe was born in 1942 in Portland, Oregon and grew up in Los Angeles, California, where he began his musical studies as an oboist. He was educated at Princeton University , where he studied with J. K. Randall, Godfrey Winham and Milton Babbitt, and from which he received the A.B., M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He was one of the first researchers in computer music, and became Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music studios at Queens College of the City University of New York. He also taught at the Juilliard School from 1974 through 1994. In 1988-89 he held the Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. From 1989 to 1998 and 2000 to 2001 he was Director of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.

He has been a member of the Society of Composers, Inc. since its founding in 1965, and served on the Executive Committee from 1967 to 1971, in which capacity he published the first several volumes of the Society's Proceedings. He served as President of the League of Composers-International Society for Contemporary Music, U.S. section from 1970 until 1979, in which capacity he directed the first ISCM World Music Days ever held outside of Europe. He has been a member of the International Computer Music Association and directed the International Computer Music Conference at Queens College in 1980. He is a member of BMI. He has been a member of the American Composers Alliance since 1974 and currently serves as President. He is also a member of the Long Island Composers Alliance.
In 1980, he received a commission from the CSC at the University of Padua, Italy, for his composition Astrazioni (Abstractions), which was presented at the Biennale of Venice. In 1994, he was the composer-in-residence of the Third Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and he has appeared at many of these festivals in later years. Recent performances have also taken place at the Eighth and Ninth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, at the Electronic Music Midwest Festivals and at the 2003 International Computer Music Conference in Singapore.

His music has been recorded on Opus One and Capstone Records.