About Calvin

Described as “impressive,” and having “a fine ear for sonority” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), Calvin Hitchcock is a composer, performer, music director, and administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from the Midwest and raised in the Evangelical tradition, he is inspired and motivated by the human condition and our innate affinity for polarization. His work often explores themes of religious subversion, control, and resistance, and experiments with narrative form and interdisciplinary integration. Recently, his opera 819: based on the Stanford Prison Experiment placed second in the 2019-2020 American Prize.

Calvin works as the Music Director for TADA! Youth Theater’s Resident Youth Ensemble, a pre-professional theatre training program in Manhattan, and is the Operations Associate for Music At The Anthology, Inc. (MATA). He holds a Bachelors of Music in Composition from Cedarville University, a Southern Baptist university in southwest Ohio. www.calvinhitchcock.com

unto the light

for self-accompanied singer & clavicytherium (2020)

commissioned & performed by Molly Netter, September 2020

cursed belief

for string quartet & fixed media (2020)

Performed by The Rhythm Method, August 2020

Selections include:

• 1c – Guard (0:00)

• 2b – Prisoner (2:42)

• 3b – Guard/Prisoner (5:18)

• 3c – Zimbardo/Prisoner (7:30)

819 (excerpts)

Selections from 819: based on the Stanford Prison Experiment (2017), a chamber opera by Calvin Hitchcock & David Grandouiller

Full performance video available here.