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Divine Art Recording Group announces the release of “Leaps & Bounds,” Associate Professor Lance Hulme’s second portrait CD.  This international two-compact disk release contains 110 minutes of Dr. Hulme’s original compositions, including "An Eternal Flame," Grand Prize, International Malta Composition Competition; “JethroZen,” First Prize, Awea Composition Competition (commissioned by Eastman School of Music professor John Covach); “Slapdash Redux,” winner of the International Percussion Premiere Night (Trieste, Italy); “Anna’s Candle” (selection, College Music Society National Convention); “Wildcat” (commissioned by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet); “Leaps & Bounds” (commissioned by the University of Maryland Wind Symphony); “Sirens’ Song” (commissioned by the University of Oklahoma Philharmonic); “Setting the Diamond” (commissioned by renowned trumpeter Christopher Gekker and featuring NCCU Music Department chair, Dr. Timothy Holley); “Sax Attractor” (commissioned by Duke University professor Dr. Susan Fancher for her recent China tour), and more.

The cover art for the release was created by NCCU professor Pankita Patel.  Many of the recordings were engineered by Dr. Hulme himself as part of an NCCU Faculty Development grant.  Other funding was provided by a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Grant, the University of Maryland Distinguished Professor fund, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, North Carolina Central University. 

Dr. Hulme holds degrees from Yale University, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Minnesota and studied at the Universitaet fuer Musik in Vienna, Austria.  Other accomplishments include the publication of his comprehensive music theory textbooks with Kendall Hunt Publications, the premiere of an opera this past November at Wichita State University Opera Theater, a Fulbright grant and many international prizes and commissions.  His music is published by Donemus BV (Netherlands).  He recently recorded his piano etudes at the Garth Newel Center in Virginia for a release of his piano compositions with Divine Art, planned for 2026.

More information can be found on the Divine Art website.

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Lance Hulme