Divine Art Recordings Group (Métier Records division) is delighted to announce a new double CD release of compositions by prize-winning U.S. American composer Lance Hulme.

Hulme’s music has featured on two previous releases for Métier including “The Street Has Changed” of which Fanfare Magazine wrote “This piece is incredibly haunting”… ”spellbinding”.  This monumental new release contains compositions with a wide variety of expression written for a spectrum of ensembles and performers: orchestra, symphonic wind orchestra, large chamber ensembles, solo violin, electronics and more.  Performers include some of the finest musicians in the United States and Europe including the composer himself.  

Lance Hulme is a musician with a wide variety of experience which is reflected in the “wide range” (Know the Score) of his musical voice.  Influences from his jazz background, orchestral repertoire, popular music and modernist music “weave a rich expressive texture.” (Die Rheinpfalz Zeitung) “reflect[ing] the ambience and musical approach of the North American musical tradition. Compositional eclecticism, a conscience, playful and uninhibited attitude with tradition and the crossover between ‘serious’ and vernacular music. All these elements are to be found as well as the most advanced structural and aural techniques” (Die Rheinpfalz Zeitung).

Hulme’s music has won many awards including Grand Prize, International Witold Lutoslawski Composition Competition, 1st Prize, ASCAP/Rudolf Nissim Prize, Grand Prize, International Trumpet Guild Composition Competition and awards from the Composición Musical Cuitat de Tarragona, Citta di Trieste Orchestra Competition and the Ladislav Kubik Composition Competition. His composition “An Eternal Flame”, which appears on this release, was awarded First Prize, 2021 Malta International Composition Competition.  Notable performances and commissions include Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Southern German Radio, the State Theater of Baden, the State Orchestra of Magdeburg, West German Radio, the Karlsruhe University Chorus, the Raschèr Saxophone Orchestra, Quattro Mani, the Henschell Quartet and others.

Dr. Hulme heads the composition and theory program at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina where he is also director of the ‘À la carte’ concert series.  He is presently completing an opera to be premiered in November of this year and preparing recordings of his piano etudes “Bandaloop Dances”.  His music is published through Donemus Publications.  More information can be found at www.lancehulme.com.

Album details

• Label: Métier
• Catalogue number: MEX 77212
• Title : ‘Leaps and Bounds’
• Composer: Lance Hulme
• Works:
  • Siren’s Song
  • Wildcat
  • Slapdash Redux
  • JethroZen
  • Bonfire Bacchanal
  • Anna’s Candle
  • An Eternal Flame
  • Sax Attractor
  • Appalachian Advent
  • Setting the Diamond
  • Leaps and Bounds
• Performers:
  • Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Mikel Toms (conductor)
  • Wildcat 9 Saxophone Orchestra
  • Lance Hulme (conductor)
  • University of Maryland Wind Symphony
  • Michael Votta (conductor)
  • Popocatapetl Percussion Duo
  • Erika Boysen (flute)
  • John Covach (electric guitar)
  • Susan Fancher (soprano saxophone)
  • James Douglass (piano)
  • Ida Bieler (violin)
  • Clara O’Brien (mezzo-soprano)
  • Timothy Holley (cello)
  • + Ensemble conducted by Lance Hulme

Lance Hulme on Métier