BIOGRAPHY

American-born composer Jacquelyn Hazle (b.1993-) writes for numerable and ever-expanding forces, including solo, chamber, orchestral and vocal repertoire. Her work relentlessly pursues new topographies for human and musical expressivity and contemplation. Jacquelyn's music has been performed by Kevin Bowyer, Amy Advocat, Lilit Hartunian, GAIA string duo, and members of Red Note Ensemble. She was featured in the 2022 PLUG New Music Festival and was a 2018 recipient of the Berklee College of Music Contemporary Compositions Award.

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Her work has pressed against the fringes of vocal writing conventions renegotiating the composer’s relationship with the written word. In 2021, she successfully designed and debuted her novel vocal form, the ‘loqua’. She has written her own text for solo voice, choir, and opera.

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Jacquelyn's compositions and writing style rarely conform to a single category. She’s equally given to use flowing melodicism, strikingly assertive motifs, unexpected dissonances, and colourful, atmospheric textures. She has written numerous technical, experimental solos ranging from her Toccata for clarinet (2018) to her dynamic piano suite, Raptae (2020). Jacquelyn is passionate about new music performance for people of any musical background or level. In 2019 and 2020, she composed two new works for school concert band, Five Musical Snapshots of Salt (2020) and All for Serendipity (2019). She is fascinated with the stories and lives of people, finding little humanities in the simple and unassuming. Her piece Does wax not soon cool? for tenor and piano (2020) is a raw and emotional appeal for a certainty of hope during the pandemic, while The Innominate Anamnesis for orchestra (2018) discretely follows an anonymous individual’s tale piecing together fractured musical motifs, building them into the full image. She also likes to take musical inspiration from visuals, images, or narratives from the natural world. In 2019, she wrote her clarinet trio Scars, black and green, inspired by the Thomas Fire that hit her hometown in 2017. Sometimes, it’s the abstract or absurd that unveils in Jacquelyn’s music through works such as Kenosis for vibraphone, marimba, violin, and piano, her second orchestra piece Genesis (2020) or Nebula Flow for three clarinets (2017).

 

Jacquelyn currently resides in Glasgow, Scotland, where is pursuing her PhD in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the supervision of Stuart MacRae (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Michael Ferguson (University of St Andrews). She previously resided in Boston, Massachusetts where she studied composition under John McDonald, Kareem Roustom and Gabriele Vanoni. She holds a MA in Music from Tufts University (2021) and a BM in Composition, Summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music (2018). In addition to composition, Jacquelyn has studied and performed as a clarinettist and a classical singer. She was born and raised in a small beach city in Southern California, USA. In her spare time, she enjoys singing with the City of Glasgow Chorus and taking silent walks through the Scottish outdoors.