Allison Loggins-Hull (born in 1982 in Chicago, Illinois), a composer, flutist and producer, performs and creates music across multiple genres, from symphonic music to film scores, chamber music and electronic music. She developed her personal style in both composition and performance, aiming to erase borders between classical, modern and popular music. This is evident in her solo pieces, duos and larger chamber works, and no hesitance to incorporate electronically generated sound. Thematically, her compositions are rooted in the contemplations about community, culture and life. Loggins-Hull co-founded the innovative duo Flutronix, which was praised for “being able to redefine the flute and modernize its sound.” She has performed as an accompanist to major pop acts. Having finished her three-year engagement as Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow with the Cleveland Orchestra, she currently is the resident artistic director of the New Jersey Symphony (2025/26 season), and continues to compose and perform as a soloist.

Homeland was commissioned by the Texas Flute Society for the 2018 Myrna Brown Competition. Loggins-Hull composed it contemplating the meaning of home and homeland in situations of natural, political and man-made disasters, deeply distressed with the devastating effect of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico in 2017 and global unrest throughout the world, in particular the war in Syria. Homeland represents the musical exploration of these questions. The piece opens with trills representing troubled waters, followed by an exchange of anxious and syncopated sections, challenging rapid high to low large-interval leaps, and more serene, almost lyrical sections. In the end, the same trills from the beginning appear, indicating that we ran a full circle and are back at the beginning with same unresolved issues. However, this is not without a hint of optimism: the music remains focused on tonal elements throughout, symbolising harmonic home as an anchor and safe haven, despite external calamities.