Jere Hutcheson

ABOUT

Jere Hutcheson retired in 2015 as Professor of Composition at the Michigan State University College of Music. He joined the faculty in 1965, and he also earned his Ph.D. from MSU. He received numerous awards and commissions, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Berkshire Music Center, and the Annual Composers Conference. Grants Professor Hutcheson received include funding from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music. His publications include various articles, a two-volume theory text, Musical Form and Analysis, and more than 100 compositions. He has been cited by the National Music Teachers Association as Distinguished Composer of the Year and received a prestigious research fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.