Dr Drew Hammond
- Lecturer (Music)
telephone:
01413306065
email:
Drew.Hammond@glasgow.ac.uk
Music, 14 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
Biography
I was born in the bluegrass region of Kentucky and began singing in church choirs and playing piano early on. I majored in music at Guilford College in North Carolina with a minor geology, dividing music performance between classical music and jazz. I spent my time in the mid-to-late 1990s touring the United States in various bands, then moved to Glasgow, Scotland to study composition with Bill Sweeney and was awarded a PHD in composition in 2009. Between 2008 and 2018 I taught composition and jazz keyboard at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, before taking on a full time post at the University of Glasgow. As a lecturer I’ve taught music courses that run the gamut between composition and creative practice, performance, music history, music theory and technique, recording, jazz keyboard, and sonic arts, at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Research interests
My creative practice interests are wide ranging, including music and place, ecopoetics, music and the natural world, liturgical vocal music, fixed media, improvisation, jazz, rock, blues and country. As a lecturer I’m interested in the challenge of creative practice teaching and course design in our rapidly changing social and technological world. I am founder of the Scottish HE Composition Pedagogy Network.
Publications
2024
Hammond, Drew (2024) Watershed II, for 2 trombones and pipe organ. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew (2024) Magnificat: score for choir and organ. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew (2024) Nunc Dimmitis. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew (2024) Electric Evensong. [Performance]
2021
Hammond, Drew and McArthur, Isobel (2021) Yince a Paradise. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew (2021) Soliloquy - for horn quartet. [Performance]
2018
Hammond, David Andrew (2018) Suite for Claude Debussy In Memoriam for 12 instruments. [Compositions]
2017
Hammond, Drew and Stanley, Jane 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2464-441X
(2017)
A reflective dialogue on teaching composition.
In: Heile, Björn, Moreda Rodriguez, Eva and Stanley, Jane (eds.)
Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century.
Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 179-194.
ISBN 9781472467324
Hammond, David (2017) Skipping Stones for Piano and Wind instruments. [Compositions]
Hammond, Drew (2017) Boyajian Star Music - open score for COMA. [Performance] (Unpublished)
2015
Hammond, Drew, Allori, Sonia, Broom, Colin, MacDonald, Francis, Searle, Oliver and De Simone, John (2015) You Can't Get There from Here. [Compositions]
2013
Hammond, David (2013) Ecto, for flute, Bb clarinet, violin and vibraphone. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
2012
Hammond, Drew (2012) Coyote Nocturne III for flute, cello, and piano. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
2011
Hammond, D. (2011) Lude, Postlude - for 2 alto saxophones, 2 violas, cello, double bass and piano. [Compositions]
Hammond, D. (2011) Three words from the sacred harp. [Compositions]
Hammond, D. (2011) Watershed, for Two Pianos written for Lauryna Sableviciute and Nicholas Ashton. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Book Sections
Hammond, Drew and Stanley, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2464-441X
(2017)
A reflective dialogue on teaching composition.
In: Heile, Björn, Moreda Rodriguez, Eva and Stanley, Jane (eds.)
Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century.
Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 179-194.
ISBN 9781472467324
Compositions
Hammond, Drew (2024) Watershed II, for 2 trombones and pipe organ. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew (2024) Magnificat: score for choir and organ. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew (2024) Nunc Dimmitis. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew and McArthur, Isobel (2021) Yince a Paradise. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, David Andrew (2018) Suite for Claude Debussy In Memoriam for 12 instruments. [Compositions]
Hammond, David (2017) Skipping Stones for Piano and Wind instruments. [Compositions]
Hammond, Drew, Allori, Sonia, Broom, Colin, MacDonald, Francis, Searle, Oliver and De Simone, John (2015) You Can't Get There from Here. [Compositions]
Hammond, David (2013) Ecto, for flute, Bb clarinet, violin and vibraphone. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, Drew (2012) Coyote Nocturne III for flute, cello, and piano. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Hammond, D. (2011) Lude, Postlude - for 2 alto saxophones, 2 violas, cello, double bass and piano. [Compositions]
Hammond, D. (2011) Three words from the sacred harp. [Compositions]
Hammond, D. (2011) Watershed, for Two Pianos written for Lauryna Sableviciute and Nicholas Ashton. [Compositions] (Unpublished)
Performance
Hammond, Drew (2024) Electric Evensong. [Performance]
Hammond, Drew (2021) Soliloquy - for horn quartet. [Performance]
Hammond, Drew (2017) Boyajian Star Music - open score for COMA. [Performance] (Unpublished)
Supervision
I welcome postgraduate research enquiries from students interested in composition and creative practice, jazz, music for choir, composition pedagogy, and environmentalism and ecopoetics.
- Baird, Alan
The components of spoken language as relates to music: Exploring phonological and linguistic features in language which can be utilised and inform my composition practice
- Baird, Alan
The components of spoken language as relates to music: Exploring phonological and linguistic features in language which can be utilised and inform my composition practice
- Kevin Leomo
Composing Luminality - crosscultural composition and the space between sound and silence
Teaching
Coordinator of Undergraduate Courses - current:
- Introduction to Composition
- Composition Higher
- Composition Advanced
- The Jazz Composer
- The Jazz Performer
Coordinator of Undergraduate Courses - previoust:
- Introduction to Creative Practice in Music
- Practical Instrumentation, Scoring and Musicianship
- Jazz and Blues
- Aspects of Modernity
Lecturer:
- Introduction to Creative Practice in Music
- Composition Courses
- Jazz Courses
- Aspects of Modernity
- Intewar Cultures
- Listening through Analysis
Additional information
Convenor of Bachelor of Music Programme
Previous Convenor of MMus in Composition and Creative Practice
