George Hurd is an American composer whose work focuses primarily on electroacoustic music combining classical instrumentation and electronics.
A large portion of his work is concert music for The Hurd Ensemble and other groups/artists such as the Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion, Elevate Ensemble, and violinist Carla Kihlstedt, and music for dance, most notably with choreographer Loni Landon and LEVYdance on Meet Me Normal (2014) and the murmur of yearning for Kinetech Arts.
He has launched a travel-based composition project called Echolocation [3] based on his travels throughout Europe, North America, and New Zealand using location-specific sound-recordings and The Hurd Ensemble to create pieces about each place he visited.
Additionally, Hurd composed a piece for piano and electronics entitled Vivarium, for pianist Elyse Weakley.
Hurd's most substantial film score is for the feature-length documentary Freeing Bernie Baran,[9] directed by Daniel Alexander.