Celebrated as a musical “powerhouse” (The Washington Post), Allison Loggins-Hull is a composer, flutist, and producer whose work defies genre, from symphonic music to film scores, chamber and electronic music. Her music is often resonant with social and political themes, encompassing reflections on motherhood, Blackness, and identity. In her newest appointment, she will serve as Resident Artistic Partner to the New Jersey Symphony, for a two-year term beginning in September 2024.
Loggins-Hull’s signature compositional style is distinguished by its unique sonic effects that echo contemporary music production techniques. Her works are profoundly influenced by Black American music, creating a vibrant and kaleidoscopic sonic palette. Thematically, her compositions are deeply rooted in the experiences of community, culture, and life, offering a rich and evocative musical narrative. Her artistic reflections on Black stories, music, and experience, have led to works aligned with Afrofuturism, a movement that imagines alternate realities and a liberated future viewed through the lens of Black cultures.
The 2024-2025 season marks Loggins-Hull’s last of three years as the Lewis Composer Fellow with The Cleveland Orchestra. Through programming, commissions, and community engagement, her work focuses the narratives and history of Cleveland through the prism of one of the world’s great orchestras, culminating in three world premieres: Can You See? for full orchestra, Legacy for string sextet, and a new work for full orchestra arriving in 2025. In a first for the Lewis Fellow’s quarter century history, Loggins-Hull performed alongside TCO musicians throughout her tenure. She concurrently begins her role with the New Jersey Symphony, where she will create new works for orchestra and contribute her unique perspective and experiences to the orchestra’s programming and community engagement.
Among her 2023-2024 highlights, Loggins-Hull performed in the world premiere of Ban, a composition for flute/piccolo/digital stomp box and string quartet that she composed for the Apollo Chamber Players’ Silenced Voices series, a musical statement against censorship. Recent and upcoming commissions include an orchestral work for the National Orchestral Institute, a Rhapsody for flute and orchestra to be performed by The Knights, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony in 2025, and new works for Flutronix with Third Coast Percussion (with whom she appears on the GRAMMY®-nominated album Perspectives) and The Cincinnati Symphony.
In recent years, Loggins-Hull performed with Lizzo at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards Show® and at the 2023 Met Gala, where she led an ensemble of flutists. As a performer on film scores, Loggins-Hull was co-principal flutist on the soundtracks for Creed III and Disney’s 2019 remake of The Lion King, working closely with Hans Zimmer. She was a co-producer of Nathalie Joachim’s celebrated album Fanm d’Ayiti, which was nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY® for Best World Music Album.
On the small screen, Loggins-Hull has been featured in an internationally broadcast ESPN Super Bowl commercial, as well as the 62nd annual GRAMMY Awards® Show and the Black Girls Rock! Awards Show. Continuing her work in film, Loggins-Hull composed the score for Bring Them Back, a 2019 award-winning documentary about the legendary dancer Maurice Hines directed by Jon Carluccio and executive produced by Debbie Allen.
Flutronix, founded in 2008, was praised by The Wall Street Journal for its capacity “to redefine the instrument” and by MTV for “redefining the flute and modernizing its sound by hauling it squarely into the world of popular music.” Flutronix has released two full studio albums (Flutronix and 2.0), as well as a live album (Live From the Attucks Theatre), and an EP (City of Breath).
Loggins-Hull is a former faculty member of The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program and teaching artist at The Juilliard School’s Global Ventures. From 2018-2022, she served on the flute faculty of The John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. Born in Chicago, she lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey.
Allison Loggins-Hull is represented by Pink Noise Agency, a BIG Arts Group Company. Learn more at www.allisonloggins.com.
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