Music

Here is a sampling of works by Jack Hughes, ranging from solos to chamber music to pieces for large ensemble.

Chamber

Dream Labyrinths (2019), for twelve players
-Premiered by the Grossman Ensemble at the University of Chicago Logan Arts Center, March 2019
-Performed by the New Music Ensemble at Cleveland Institute of Music Mixon Hall, October 2021

Ripple (2016), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
-Premiered by students at the Orford Arts Centre, Canada, August 2016
-Performed by the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, November 2016
-Winner of a BMI Student Composer Award, 2016

Large Ensemble

Needlepoint (2019), for orchestra
-Recorded by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Symphony Center, Chicago
-Selected for the American Composers Orchestra’s 2019 Underwood New Music Readings

like a strange sigh (2017), for choir
-Written for Volti, premiered in San Francisco, May 2017
-Text adapted from The Moonflowers by Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978)

Solo

Ripple, Reflected (2020), for clarinet and tape
-Commissioned and premiered by Lucy Abrams at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

Tell (2015), monologue for solo voice
-Premiered by Nina Dante at Constellation Theater, Chicago, May 2015