The
director, composer and electronic engineer of SYNTHESIS 2000 is known
as a jazz pianist, musical demonstrator and performer of MIDI/synthesizer/computer
applications ("MacWorld" and Apple Computers, Inc. in the Southeast).
Hinderlie has been a regular performer at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage
Festival. He is also busy as a composer for television, radio, and films,
and most recently for a feature-length movie Cut Up and AAA travel videos.
The music for the New Orleans Big Easy Awards was composed and performed
by Hinderlie. He performs regularly as a solo jazz pianist in New Orleans.
His first recording, Solo Flight, was
released in January, 1996. As the president of STR Digital Records he
has produced eight jazz and blues CD's.
In 1989 and 1991, Hinderlie travelled to the Soviet Union performing concerts
and providing workshop/demonstrations utilizing his synthesizers and computers.
In 1993 he performed as a jazz pianist for three months in Damascus, Syria,
and travelled there again in 1995, as the only American invited to perform
in the first Euro-Arab Jazz Festival. That summer he also performed in
Japan for the first time. He again travelled to the Far East in 1997 and
performed in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. He has performed throughout
the United States.
Hinderlie first appeared professionally at the age of twelve as the tuba/bass
player with a traditional jazz band in Seattle. His interest soon turned
to piano, and a friendship and early musical encounter with George Shearing,
along with intensive jazz piano studies with Jerome Gray led to formal
jazz studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and at the University
of North Texas. Hinderlie lived in Germany from 1974 to 1979, performing,
teaching, composing and arranging. In the Frankfurt area, he founded and
performed with a jazz-fusion trio called "ART" and also appeared regularly
with the bebop-oriented Frank Maywald Quintet. Returning to the USA, Hinderlie
completed a Master's Degree at the University of North Texas, studying
electronic music, composition, and jazz piano. He has pursued further
graduate work in composition and film-scoring at the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles.
Since 1981, he has been on the music faculty of Loyola University in New
Orleans, teaching electronic and commercial music, recording, jazz piano
and music theory. He was awarded major grants in 1987 and 1998 from the
state of Louisiana to design and build state-of-the-art recording/electronic/ear-training
studios at Loyola. From 1983-85, Hinderlie was musical director of Richard
Pierce & Co., a multi-media work-in-progress. Hinderlie's compositions
have won prizes in the Delius Festival and at the New Orleans Contemporary
Arts Center.
Performances of his works include the Electronic Music Plus Festivals in Kansas City, Austin and Knoxville; New Music America, Los Angeles, in conjunction with the Society of Electro Acoustic Music United States; public television projects in conjunction with the New Orleans Public Schools; several concerts at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, the New Orleans Institute for the Performing Arts, and Loyola; and performances at universities and festivals throughout the country.