Lee Hyla

Lee Hyla (b. 1952) is one of the more adventurous contemporary composers active in the field today. His music is in the postwar American Expressionist tradition that derives from Stefan Wolpe and Elli...

'The composer has been noted for his integration of jazz and rock into a modernist classical idiom. His string trio...makes fewer obvious stylistic detours, but is still built on contrast and is no le...

Amore Scaduto (roughly translated 'Broken Love”) borrows its title from a romance novel composer Lee Hyla saw at a newsstand in Rome in Autumn 2004. This brief duo for violin and cello mirrors the ac...

Lee Hyla's 1987 trio takes its title from a fresco by Giotto, which depicts Pope Innocent III dreaming of St. Francis literally holding up the Church. To capture the power of this imagery, Hyla amplif...