Allison Loggins-Hull

Allison Loggins-Hull, born in 1982, is an unusually versatile musician. She grew up in Chicago and New York and was a flute teacher on the faculty at New York’s Juilliard School. In 2007, together with fellow flautist Nathalie Johnson, she founded the duo Flutronix, which combined elements of traditional classical music with hip hop and electronica in a mission to redefine the flute and its sound. As a musician who rejects thinking in terms of compartmentalised genres, Allison Loggins-Hull has worked together with both the jazz pianist James Moran and the film composer Hans Zimmer, the avantgarde band Bang on a Can as well as with leading American symphony orchestras. A significant aspect of her artistic work, and one that clearly differentiates her from the majority of her musical colleagues, is that she explicitly addresses live social and political issues, ranging from racism, through African American identity to the problems of motherhood.

Within her oeuvre, she often works with traditional materials that are fractured or adapted in a specific way. These are predominantly solo pieces, duos and larger chamber works, often incorporating electronically generated sound. At the start of the 2022/23 season, Allison Loggins-Hull began a three-year tenure as Composer Fellow with the Cleveland Orchestra. In addition to this intensive collaboration, her most recent compositions include pieces for the cellist Alisa Weilerstein and for numerous chamber ensembles, with which Allison Loggins-Hull continues to perform as a soloist.