Charlotte Hug
Composer-performer, improviser, media artist, teaching artist
About Charlotte Hug
With her innovative musical-visual performances at special locations and her spatial scores with Son-Icons (visual music), she has created a new genre of transdisciplinary, spatial-scenic music and art. As an extreme musician with voice and viola, her speciality is hybrid sound mixtures. This creates her own unmistakable sound language. Hug holds degrees in degrees in music and fine arts, has won various awards and artist residencies in Berlin, Paris, London, Johannesburg and Shanghai.
She was “Artiste Etoile” at the Lucerne Festival and was nominated for the Classic:Next – Innovation Award in 2019. Hug’s music is documented on an extensive discography with Elliott Sharp, Maggie Nicols, Lucas Niggli, several recordings with the London Stellari String Quartet, among others, her own choral and orchestral works as well as three solo CDs on international labels. Hug is a long-standing member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, developed open concepts for the Lucerne Improvisers Orchestra LUIO and worked with various improvisers orchestras such as the KIO in Krakow, SPIO Sao Paulo, etc. Her works and spatial scores are performed by international ensembles, choirs and orchestras as well as interdisciplinary ensembles.
In addition to exhibitions in galleries and museums, she also performs extensively as an improviser, soloist with voice and viola,
composer or conductor of her own works at major festivals.