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What I offer

  • -Masterclasses for improvisation, comprovisation, interdisciplinary scenic music performance
  • Coaching for ‘Extended Techniques’ for voice and strings (and for various instruments on request)
  • Interdisciplinary methods for releasing and sharpening individual creative potential and one's own artistic profile.
  • Coaching for concept development and notation forms for individual interdisciplinary projects
  • Stage presence, ‘oeil exterieur’ for scenic-musical projects
  • Conduction’ conducting language for improvising groups
  • Artistic work and concept pieces with improvising orchestras and ensembles
  • Learning and applying ‘Interaction Notation’ - notation for musical-intermedial contexts
  • Mentoring for individual projects
  • Artist’s Talk

Teaching experience

Hug gives international masterclasses and performance lectures in English, French and German at symposia and art colleges such as MC Gill University Montreal, CNMAT University of California Berkeley, New York University Berlin, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, China Academy of Art Hangzhou etc.

As a long-standing member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, Hug has worked with improvising orchestras such as the KIO Krakow Improvisers Orchestra, the SPIO São Paulo Improvisers Orchestra, etc. She also developed her intermedial orchestral piece ‘Nachtplasmen’ with the highly talented musicians of the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Hug is a lecturer in free and interdisciplinary improvisation at the HSLU Lucerne University of Music and leads the postgraduate course "Creation & Scenario in Music" at the ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts, which she initiated.

Courses offered at the ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts

CAS Creation & Scenario in Music
Head of Studies of the part-time, international, one-year study programme
Inhalt & Aufbau des Studiums Application deadline 15 October

Focusing on Creation NEW: (6 Mentorate mit Mentor*in nach eigener Wahl)

ZHdK Summer -Winter School in Zurich und London (ZHdK Abroad) see
https://www.zhdk.ch/weiterbildung/sws

Modules at the ZHdK Continuing education, start at any time Focusing on creation
Focusing on Creation NEW (six times one hour mentoring with selected mentors)
Mentorierte Projektentwicklung in den Künsten (five times one hour mentoring)
Künstlerische Perspektiven Neues entdecken und erproben (tree times one hour mentoring)

Offers at the HSLU University of Music

Lecturer for free and interdisciplinary improvisation in various study programmes of the HSLU at Bachelor and Masters level: MAP Music & Art Performance, Minor Improvisation, International Academy for contemporary Music Music and Movement, as well as in the IB (Individual Area) elective. see LUIO Lucerne Improvisers Orchestra Events