Notable Achievements

Cargill Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Education Alicia Moore and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Fine Arts and Professor of Music Michael Cooper collaborated with pianist Lara Downes to produce a crowdsourced recitation of the Civil Rights “Credo” of W. E. B. Du Bois for the podcast We Need Gentle Truths for Now, hosted by Alexandra Juhasz. Seven SU faculty and staff (Part-Time Instructor of Applied Music Adrienne Inglis, Associate Professor of Music Jason Hoogerhyde, Professor of Music Kiyoshi Tamagawa, Professor of Music Lois Ferrari, Sarofim School of Fine Arts Coordinator Olivia Wise, Assistant Dean for Student Multicultural Affairs Terri Johnson, and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Valerie Renegar), three current students (Alexis Lemus ’22, Grace Sexton ’22, and Shelby Avants ’21), and six alumnae (Erin McHugh ’09, Isabel Tweraser ’19, Julia Fowler ’15, Katiebeth Brandt ’19, Kinley Johnson ’17, and Sara Watson ’13) participated in the recitation, along with 25 other participants Black and white, ages 5 to 81, from the Americas and Europe, representing four native languages. The podcast is available here. The recitation is also available as a YouTube video titled “Testimony: A #BlackLivesMatter Manifesto after the Credo of W.E.B. Du Bois,” here.

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Associate Professor of Music

Expertise

Composition, Music Theory

Composer Jason Hoogerhyde joined the faculty of Southwestern University’s Sarofim School of Fine Arts in 2004. His music has been performed both nationally and internationally, by such performers as Coda (UK), Decadanse (France), the N[ex]t Saxophone Quartet (Latvia), Ramon Acoymo (Philippines), and at festivals and concert series, including MusicX, Society of Composers, College Music Society, the University of Kentucky’s American Music Week, the University of Nebraska-Kearney’s New Music Festival V, Blue Lake Summer Music Festival, and Weill Recital Hall in New York City. He has been artist-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation, the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and the Cincinnati Public Schools through a Meet-the-Composer grant. He served for two years as classical music critic for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Dr. Hoogerhyde studied composition with Allen Gimbel, Joyce Mekeel, Lukas Foss, Allen Sapp, Samuel Adler, Darrell Handel, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. As an instructor, he received the University of Cincinnati’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and prior to his arrival at Southwestern University he taught for five years at Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music.

Education

D.M.A., Composition - University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
M.M., Composition - Boston University
B.M., Theory and Composition - Lawrence University

  • Biography

    Composer Jason Hoogerhyde joined the faculty of Southwestern University’s Sarofim School of Fine Arts in 2004. His music has been performed both nationally and internationally, by such performers as Coda (UK), Decadanse (France), the N[ex]t Saxophone Quartet (Latvia), Ramon Acoymo (Philippines), and at festivals and concert series, including MusicX, Society of Composers, College Music Society, the University of Kentucky’s American Music Week, the University of Nebraska-Kearney’s New Music Festival V, Blue Lake Summer Music Festival, and Weill Recital Hall in New York City. He has been artist-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation, the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and the Cincinnati Public Schools through a Meet-the-Composer grant. He served for two years as classical music critic for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Dr. Hoogerhyde studied composition with Allen Gimbel, Joyce Mekeel, Lukas Foss, Allen Sapp, Samuel Adler, Darrell Handel, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. As an instructor, he received the University of Cincinnati’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and prior to his arrival at Southwestern University he taught for five years at Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music.

    Education

    D.M.A., Composition - University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
    M.M., Composition - Boston University
    B.M., Theory and Composition - Lawrence University

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