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Author Archives: Paul HodginsArts & Culture Senior Editor

Paul Hodgins was born in Canada, where he studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music and became a professional accompanist by the age of 20. Hodgins worked widely in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. as an accompanist and music professor at Simon Fraser University, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Nonington College (Kent), Eastern Michigan University, and many festivals. He moved to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies in the 1980s and has lived here ever since, completing his doctorate in musical composition at the University of Southern California.

Hodgins was a professor of music at the University of California Irvine from 1985 to 1992, where he served as music director of the dance department and founding director of the Gassman Electronic Music Studio. After freelancing as a classical music critic at the San Diego Union-Tribune, he became an arts journalist and critic for The Orange County Register, where he wrote principally about theater and later about dance and classical music.

In addition to his expertise in the performing arts, Hodgins has written extensively about jazz, architecture, interior design and urban planning. For the last decade he has written a regular column about wine, beer and spirits for the Register.

Hodgins has written two books. Music, Movement and Metaphor, a study of dance-music relationships in 20th-century choreography, was published in 1992. The Winemakers of Paso Robles came out in 2017.

Hodgins remains active as an educator. He has been on the journalism faculty at California State University, Fullerton since 2001. He has also taught journalism at Cal State Long Beach and UCLA Extension.

Hodgins and his wife have lived in downtown Huntington Beach for 20 years. Some day he will learn how to surf.

Languages spoken: English

Areas of expertise: Orange County, theater, dance, music and arts issues.

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Orange County

Languages Spoken

English

Areas of Expertise

Theater
Dance
Music
Arts issues

Location Expertise

Orange County

Posted inMusic

Choral Arts Initiative Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Its First Post-Pandemic Live Concert

by Paul Hodgins Nov 5, 2021Nov 6, 2021
Posted inTheater

SCR Returns to Live Indoor Theater With a Wordy But Fascinating World Premiere

by Paul Hodgins Oct 11, 2021Oct 12, 2021
Posted inARTS & CULTURE

Arts Groups Adapt Opening Plans After Delta Variant Changes the COVID Landscape

by Paul Hodgins Sep 24, 2021Oct 13, 2021
Posted inARTS & CULTURE

Arts Communities in OC and LA Mourn the Passing of Paul Musco

by Paul Hodgins Sep 23, 2021Oct 4, 2021
Posted inCulture

Orange County’s First Poet Laureate Sets Her Own Agenda

by Paul Hodgins Sep 17, 2021Sep 20, 2021
Posted inARTS & CULTURE

Major Orange County Arts Orgs to Require Masks and Full COVID-19 Vaccination for the Foreseeable Future

by Paul Hodgins Aug 23, 2021Aug 24, 2021
Posted inTheater

South Coast Repertory Creates a New ‘Normal’ in Its 2021-22 Season

by Paul Hodgins Aug 5, 2021Aug 6, 2021
Posted inMusic

London Symphony, Joshua Bell, Pinchas Zukerman Highlight OC Philharmonic’s 2021-22 Season

by Paul Hodgins Jul 6, 2021Aug 2, 2021
Posted inMusic

An Evening With Renée Fleming is the Perfect Way to Celebrate the Normality We Crave

by Paul Hodgins Jun 26, 2021Jun 28, 2021
Posted inMusic

MenAlive Camps Out With Its Upcoming Concert — Cautiously

by Paul Hodgins Jun 23, 2021Jul 9, 2021

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