Biografie
Charlotte Hug composer-performer (viola & voice) & visual artist
Charlotte Hug, inter-media artist and musician of the extreme is constantly pushing the boundaries of her instrument using her “soft bow technique” among other possibilities. She reinvented the viola. Her specialty is also a blend of viola and vocals using high falsetto, vibrating glottal sounds, multiphonics and language like articulation, which has resulted in an unmistakable and unique tonal language. Hug has recorded an extensive discography including four solo CDs, on international labels.
Having completed her studies in fine arts and music, she received various awards such as “artist in residence” in London, Paris, Berlin, Cork, Johannesburg, Shanghai and she was “Artiste Etoile” at the Lucerne Festival.
Alongside her activities as a visual artist in exhibitions, Hug's sound-drawings: “Son-Icons” have found international recognition. Fully active as a concert performer, soloist, composer & conductor of her own works, she is present at major festivals worldwide. www.charlottehug.ch
Hug gives master classes at several universities and art academies including McGill University Montreal, CNMAT of the University of California Berkeley, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, the China Academy of Art Hangzhou, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago etc.
Hug is a professor of contemporary improvisation, performance and intermedia creation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts/Music and the head of the international postgraduate studies CREATION & SCENARIO IN MUSIC at the Zurich University of the Arts. https://www.zhdk.ch/en/cas-creation-scenario-in-music-3322
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
CDs (a selection of over 30 CD productions on international labels)
"IN RESONANCE WITH ELSEWHERE " Charlotte Hug, Voice & Viola solo FSR /2025
"SLIPWAY TO GALAXIES" Charlotte Hug, Voice & Viola solo EMANEM 5018
"NEULAND" Charlotte Hug, Viola solo EMANEM 4085
"MauerauM WandrauM" Performance Charlotte Hug viola & electronics solo CD-ROM stv/asm
"SON-ICON MUSIC" Orchestra and Choral works by Charlotte Hug FSR
"FULGURATIO" Duo with Lucas Niggli, Drums - Hug voice & viola, FSR
"BOUQUET" Duo with Frédéric Blondy piano - Hug voice & viola EMANEM 5026
"Pi:k" Duo mit Elliott Sharp Guitar - Hug viola, EMANEM 4143
"FINE EXTENSION" Duo with Fred Lonberg Holm cello - Hug viola EMANEM 5012
"CERTAIN QUESTIONS" Duo with Pat Thomas, electronics - Hug viola, electronics UTR 4134
"BRILLIANT DAYS Duo with Chantale Laplante, electronics - Hug, viola & electronics
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"FUOGN" Thomas Rohrer Rabeca- Philip Somervel organ- Hug viola & voice QTV
"ON DIZZINESS" Maggie Nicols, voice - Caroline Kraabel voice, sax - Hug voice & viola CS 786
"TRANSITIONS" Maggie Nicols, voice - Caroline Kraabel voice, sax - Hug, voice & viola EMANEM 4068
"ACOUSTIC ELECTRONICS" Jormin bass- Nina De Heney bass- Hug violaLJCD5246
"QUARRTSILUNI" Nina De heney bass -Lisa Ullen piano - Hug viola & voice
"VULCAN" London Stellari String Quartet (Phil Wachsmann violin, Marcio Mattos cello, John Edwards bass, Hug viola) EMANEM 5047
"GOCCE STELLARI" London Stellari String Quartet, (Phil Wachsmann violin, Marcio Mattos cello, John Edwards bass, Hug viola) EMANEM 5006
LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA "Responses, Reproduction & Reality" EMANEM 4110
LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA "freedom of the city" EMANEM 4090