Ted Hearne
| Ted Hearne | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Edward Hearne |
| Born | 1982 (age 34–35) Chicago, Illinois |
| Genres | Contemporary classical, Avant-garde music, Experimental |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Conductor, Vocalist |
| Instruments | Vocalist |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | New Amsterdam Records, New Focus Recordings |
| Associated acts | Katrina Ballads, R WE WHO R WE |
| Website | www |
Ted Hearne (born 1982) is an American composer, singer and conductor. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Ted Hearne was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he was a member of the Chicago Children's Choir. He moved to New York in 2000 and has attended the Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music. Hearne's oratorio “Katrina Ballads”, an hour-long work about the media’s response to Hurricane Katrina received widespread acclaim after it was premiered at Charleston's Spoleto Festival in 2007. His oratorio The Source, about Chelsea Manning, sets text from leaked military documents and was premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Hearne has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, A Far Cry, pianist Timo Andres, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane and other musicians. Hearne has become known for writing in a wide range of contemporary-music styles, and has collaborated with a diverse group of musicians, most notably Erykah Badu, with whom he created an evening-length piece for Badu to perform with the Brooklyn Philharmonic,J.G. Thirlwell, with whom he created chamber-music arrangements of Thirlwell's electronic project Manorexia, and electronic/noise musician Philip White, whom with he performs as R We Who R We. Hearne has also worked with jazz musician Rene Marie, the JACK Quartet, harpist/composer Zeena Parkins and conductor Alan Pierson, and hIs music has been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), (le) Poisson Rouge, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, and Carnegie Hall.
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