Programs
H Project Performing Arts Association supports artist-led programs that bring contemporary jazz, interdisciplinary performance, education, cultural history, and public conversation into community settings.
HPPAA programs include concerts, workshops, collaborations, lecture-demonstrations, public history projects, visual-art connections, video documentation, and educational resources. The organization works with musicians, educators, presenters, museums, galleries, community partners, and audiences to expand access to contemporary jazz and interdisciplinary arts.
Program Areas
Double Vision Jazz Ensemble
Double Vision Jazz Ensemble is a contemporary jazz ensemble co-led by Hank Hehmsoth and John Mills. The ensemble performs original compositions, new arrangements, modern jazz repertoire, and interdisciplinary programs connecting improvisation, composition, visual art, and cultural history.
Double Vision is listed on the Texas Commission on the Arts 2026–2028 Texas Touring Roster, supporting the ensemble’s readiness for professional presenting contexts throughout Texas.
Youth Jazz Education
HPPAA supports youth jazz education through workshops, demonstrations, listening sessions, jam-session experiences, and public learning opportunities for young musicians, families, educators, and community members.
These programs help students develop musical confidence, improvisational awareness, ensemble skills, historical understanding, and connections to working jazz artists.
Texas Jazz History
HPPAA presents programs that honor Texas jazz history and the artists, communities, and cultural traditions that helped shape American music.
Recent public history programming includes the Eddie Durham Tribute, honoring San Marcos-born jazz pioneer Eddie Durham through live performance, historical commentary, guest artists, original arrangements, and community storytelling.
Interdisciplinary Arts
HPPAA supports projects that connect music with visual art, poetry, research, documentation, and public conversation.
These programs encourage audiences to experience jazz as part of a larger creative field, where sound, image, history, language, and community memory inform one another.
Public Access and Documentation
HPPAA documents selected programs through photography, video, program notes, online materials, and public-facing educational resources. This documentation helps preserve project history, extend public access beyond a single event, and support future learning, research, and community engagement.
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Work With HPPAA
HPPAA welcomes conversations with presenters, educators, museums, libraries, galleries, schools, community partners, and arts organizations interested in concerts, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, interdisciplinary projects, or Texas jazz history programs.
For program inquiries, contact:
H Project Performing Arts Association
Email: hank@hppaa.org
Phone: 512-915-2536
