Nicolas Hodges
Pianist Nicolas Hodges is an important specialist in contemporary music, having collaborated closely with composers, including Wolfgang Rihm and Harrison Birtwistle. He is also a noted educator.
Hodges was born in London in 1970. His mother was a member of the BBC Singers, his father a BBC studio manager and amateur musician. He attended Christ Church Cathedral School in Oxford, where he made his performing debut as a boy treble in the Christ Church Cathedral Choir. He went on to Winchester College and then to Cambridge and Bristol Universities. His teachers included Susan Bradshaw and Sulamita Aronovsky; he also studied song accompaniment with Roger Vignoles and Geoffrey Parsons and composition with Michael Finnissy, Robin Holloway, and Alexander Goehr. Hodges has performed with many major orchestras and has returned multiple times to several of them, including the BBC Symphony, the Boston Symphony, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. He is best known for his close relationships with major contemporary composers. Among these are Birtwistle, who called Hodges his Peter Pears (referring to the pianist/vocalist who championed Benjamin Britten's music), Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Rebecca Saunders. Hodges also premiered the 2003 piano concerto Dialogues by Elliott Carter, and he has performed music by many other contemporary composers, including Brian Ferneyhough, John Adams, Beat Furrer, and Pascal Dusapin, as well as works of Beethoven and other compositions from the traditional classical repertory.
Hodges has made more than 25 recordings, beginning with Bill Hopkins: Complete Piano Music on Col Legno in 2000. He has recorded for Kairos, Wergo, Nonesuch, and many other labels. On Bridge, he was heard performing Dialogues in a 2005 recording of concertos by Carter. Hodges' recorded output was exclusively concentrated on contemporary music until 2020 when he released A Bag of Bagatelles, which included bagatelles by Beethoven as well as Birtwistle.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Wolfgang Rihm: Sotto Voce
Arditti String Quartet, Nicolas Hodges, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Jonathan Nott, John Axelrod
Classical - Released by Kairos on 1 Jun 2009
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Rebecca Saunders: Crimson
Nicolas Hodges, Rolf Hind, Teodoro Anzellotti, SWR Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Hans Zender
Classical - Released by Kairos on 1 Jan 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Piano Recital: Hodges, Nicolas - REDGATE, R. / CLARKE, J.
Classical - Released by Coviello Classics on 1 Sep 2008
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ferneyhough: Complete Piano Works
Classical - Released by NEOS Music on 30 Jun 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ludwig van Beethoven | Harrison Birtwistle: A Bag of Bagatelles
Classical - Released by wergo on 6 Nov 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beat Furrer: Works for Piano
Classical - Released by Kairos on 1 Jan 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beat Furrer: Piano Concerto et Al.
Classical - Released by KAIROS on 1 Jun 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Olga Neuwirth: Chamber Music
Nicolas Hodges, Irvine Arditti, Garth Knox, Arditti String Quartet
Classical - Released by KAIROS on 1 Jun 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Aperghis: Works for Piano
Classical - Released by NEOS Music on 27 Oct 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bill Hopkins - Complete Piano Music
Classical - Released by col legno on 1 Jan 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Zimmermann: Voces Abandonadas
Classical - Released by wergo on 1 Jan 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Musica Viva, Vol. 21: Mitterer & Mundry
Wolfgang Mitterer, Nicolas Hodges, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Emilio Pomarico, Peter Rundel
Classical - Released by NEOS Music on 30 Jun 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Peter Ablinger: Voices and Piano
Classical - Released by KAIROS on 1 Jun 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Connolly, J.: Night Thoughts
Nicolas Hodges, Nancy Ruffer, Andrew Sparling, Sue Anderson, Corrado Canonici, Julian Warburton
Classical - Released by Métier on 1 Jan 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rolf Riehm: Wer sind diese Kinder / Hamamuth, Stadt der Engel
Nicolas Hodges, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Freiburg
Classical - Released by wergo on 26 Jul 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo