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Draft:Nicholas Hubbell

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Nicholas Hubbell (credited also as Nick Hubbell) is an American composer and music producer. He is the founder of the music production company Just Music, which has produced music for film, television, radio, children's programming and commercials.[1] His concert work Chicago Fanfare won the Chicago Philharmonic's 2019–2020 Fanfare Competition.[2][3]

Education

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Hubbell studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.[4]

Career

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Film, television and media

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Hubbell founded the music production house Just Music, for which he composed music for dramatic, educational and children's programs and for television and radio commercials.[1]

Hubbell composed the scores for two documentaries by director Craig Davidson about the Negro leagues: There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues (1981) and Pitching Man: Satchel Paige Defying Time (2009).[5]

He composed the music for You on Kazoo (1989), a children's sing-along video that became the source of the "Kazoo Kid" internet meme after an edited clip was posted to YouTube in 2014.[6][7] His other children's video credits include Dr. Seuss titles such as The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1989). He also composed the music for One Zillion Valentines (1998), a Weston Woods Studios animated adaptation of the children's book by Frank Modell.[8]

He was the composer for the documentary The Battle of Britain Remembered: Adlertag, 15 August 1940 (1990).[9] He also wrote the score for The Men Who Brought the Dawn (1995), a documentary featuring interviews with crew members of the Enola Gay and Bockscar; the film was shown in the National Air and Space Museum's Enola Gay exhibit.[10][11]

He composed the music for Anne's World, a CD based on Anne of Green Gables, produced by The Media Group and recorded at Presence Studios in Westport, Connecticut.[12] In 2021 he composed the soundtrack for Contact High, a television pilot directed by Woody Woodhall. His other media credits include work for ESPN, including an NBA TV logo.[1]

Concert music

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Hubbell's Chicago Fanfare (2019) won the Chicago Philharmonic's 2019–2020 Fanfare Competition and received its world premiere on March 27, 2022, at the Harris Theater in Chicago.[2][3] The piece celebrates the city and gives each section of the orchestra its own representation; Hubbell drew visual inspiration from a panoramic nighttime photograph of the Chicago skyline taken from Lake Michigan.[2][13] Reviewing the premiere, the Chicago Classical Review noted that the piece had been selected from nearly 40 competition entries and praised its "broad-shouldered sweep and pulsing exuberance".[14] The work opened the orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut program in October 2024.[15][16]

His chamber work Behind the Hedge, for narrator, chamber ensemble and electronics, was reviewed in Percussive Notes, the journal of the Percussive Arts Society, by Josh Armstrong, who wrote that Hubbell "has given the chamber ensemble genre a great addition, one that is sure to get people talking".[17]

His works with electronics have been programmed at Electronic Music Midwest (2017, 2018, 2022, 2024 and 2026), the TURN UP festival at the University of Arizona (2021, 2023 and 2025), the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2019) and by the Boston New Music Initiative (2016).[18][19][20][21][22]

Selected works

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Orchestral

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  • Piano Concerto (2022), for piano and orchestra
  • Dream Symphony (2021)
  • Chicago Fanfare (2019); premiered by the Chicago Philharmonic, Harris Theater, Chicago, 2022[14]

Works with electronics or fixed media

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  • Woman of a Race (2026), for soprano, flute and fixed media; premiered at Electronic Music Midwest[20]
  • Awakening (2025), for flute, cello, percussion and fixed media; premiered at the TURN UP Multimedia Festival[22]
  • Multitudes (2024), for viola and fixed media; premiered at Electronic Music Midwest[19]
  • Empathy Storm (2024), for piano and fixed media
  • Venice Beach (2023), for string quartet, fixed media and video
  • Mosaic III: Chemistry (2023), for two percussionists and fixed media; composed for the Quey Percussion Duo
  • Hidden Muse (2023), for flutes and fixed media; premiered at the TURN UP Multimedia Festival[21]
  • A Little More than Meets the Eye (2022), for B♭ clarinet, bass clarinet and electronics; premiered at Electronic Music Midwest[18]
  • Gaia (2022), for violin and electronics; composed for Barbora Korolova
  • Archeology (2021), for violin and electronics; premiered at the TURN UP Music Festival
  • Apollo (2019), for trumpet, piano, percussion and electronics; premiered by the Splice Ensemble at NYCEMF
  • Would Never (2018), for woodwind quintet and electronics; premiered at Electronic Music Midwest
  • Vox Excitat (2017), for violin, percussion and electronics
  • Behind the Hedge (2017), for narrator, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and electronics; premiered at Berry College in 2018[17]
  • Nil'che (2017), for piano, trumpet, percussion and electronics; premiered by the Splice Ensemble at Electronic Music Midwest
  • Choices (2016), for flute and electronics; premiered by the Boston New Music Initiative

Chamber

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  • Sunshine (2020), for soprano, narrator and chamber ensemble
  • Drawing (2018), for flute and string quartet
  • Wright Angles (2018), for string quartet
  • After All Is Said (2017), for two percussionists; premiered by Cisum Percussion, Brooklyn
  • Mosaic II: Mandelbrot's Dream (2017), for two marimbas, four players; premiered by the University of Cincinnati Percussion Ensemble in 2022
  • Unspoken Forgiveness (2017), for violin and piano
  • unprotected or exposed to danger (2017), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion

Piano

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  • Preludes, Inventions and Meditations (2021); recorded by Ilya Friedberg at the Jerusalem Music Center
  • Dissimilitude (2019); premiered by Ilya Friedberg

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Nicholas Hubbell". Nicholas Hubbell. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Chicago Philharmonic to Present FANFARE CHICAGO". BroadwayWorld. February 7, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Fanfare Chicago". Chicago Philharmonic. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  4. ↑ Hi-O-Hi. Oberlin College. 1976. p. 179. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  5. ↑ ""Pitching Man" describes the remarkable Satchel Paige". The News-Times. June 3, 2009. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  6. ↑ "8-Year-Old Auditions for Video About Kazoos. 35 Years Later, the Viral Meme Has Been Viewed Over 90 Million Times (Exclusive)". People. December 14, 2025. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Who Is The You On Kazoo Kid & Where Is He Now?". Screen Rant. January 3, 2024. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  8. ↑ "One Zillion Valentines". Apple TV. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  9. ↑ The Battle of Britain Remembered: Adlertag, 15 August 1940 (Documentary film). The Greenwich Workshop. 1990. Event occurs at End credits.
  10. ↑ Felt, Jonathan S. (director) (1995). The Men Who Brought the Dawn: The Atomic Missions of Enola Gay and Bock's Car (Documentary film). Greenwich Workshop. Event occurs at End credits.
  11. ↑ ""The Men who Brought the Dawn" Source Material Collection, NASM.2004.0010". National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  12. ↑ Hubbell, Nicholas (n.d.). Anne's World (CD liner notes). International Horizons.
  13. ↑ "Chicago Philharmonic presents premiere of 'Fanfare Chicago'". Chronicle Media. February 7, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  14. 1 2 "Avital lights up U.S. premiere of Higdon's Mandolin Concerto with Chicago Philharmonic". Chicago Classical Review. March 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  15. ↑ Gerber, Charles E. (October 28, 2024). "The Chicago Philharmonic Debut at Carnegie Hall – First Rate". Splash Magazine. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  16. ↑ "The Road to Carnegie Hall: Chicago Philharmonic and Sleeping At Last". Chicago Philharmonic. December 2024. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  17. 1 2 Armstrong, Josh (December 2020). "Review of Behind the Hedge". Percussive Notes. Percussive Arts Society.
  18. 1 2 "2022 Electronic Music Midwest Festival". NewMusicEngine. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  19. 1 2 "2024 Electronic Music Midwest Festival". NewMusicEngine. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  20. 1 2 "2026 Electronic Music Midwest Festival". NewMusicEngine. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  21. 1 2 "TURN UP Multimedia Festival 2023". NewMusicEngine. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
  22. 1 2 "TURN UP Multimedia Festival". Arizona Arts, University of Arizona. Retrieved September 29, 2026.
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