Calvin is a composer, performer & music director based in Jersey City
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Calvin Hitchcock is a composer, performer, and music director based in Jersey City, NJ. Described as “impressive,” and having “a fine ear for sonority” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), his original work explores melody as cultural symbol, musical memory, and themes of religious control, subversion and faith.
Calvin is most at home at the intersection of music and theatre, working equally as a creator, interpreter, and collaborator. His chamber opera “819: based on the Stanford Prison Experiment” placed second in the 2019-20 American Prize, and he has received Kennedy Center recognition for his incidental theatre music. Recently, Calvin was an 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence at the cell theatre in Manhattan, developing his new opera-theatre work PROPHET$, a pageant on American Evangelicalism. In addition to frequently music directing for worship services and live entertainment, he also writes, arranges and produces shows for theme parks.
Calvin is a passionate educator and is on faculty at the Brooklyn Music Factory and a Teaching Artist at TADA! Youth Theater. He holds degrees in Composition from Cedarville University, a Southern Baptist university in Ohio, and Mannes/The New School, where he studied with David T. Little.