Trio Accanto

[3] He succeeded Yukiko Sugawara who had retired from the group after their performance of Aureliano Cattaneo's trio-concerto Blut with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Freiburg under François-Xavier Roth at Donaueschingen in 2012.

[4] The first performance of the trio with Hodges took place on 1 November 2013 in Prague,[3] at the Contempuls Festival, in a programme including works by Toshio Hosokawa, Jo Kondo, Brice Pauset and Hans Thomalla.

Some composers who have written for Trio Accanto include Mark Andre, Georges Aperghis, Aldo Clementi, Michael Finnissy,[5] Stefano Gervasoni, Vinko Globokar, Erhard Grosskopf, Georg Friedrich Haas, Toshio Hosokawa, Evan Johnson, Thomas Kessler, Marina Khorkova, Jo Kondo, Helmut Lachenmann, Marco Momi, Brice Pauset, Stefan Prins, Rolf Riehm, Wolfgang Rihm, Johannes Schöllhorn, Martin Schüttler, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mauricio Sotelo, Helena Tulve and Christian Wolff.

Composers currently writing for Trio Accanto include Beat Furrer, Misato Mochizuki, Rebecca Saunders and Mikel Urquiza.

For example, on 6 August 2008, at the NDR Rolf-Liebermann-Studio in Hamburg (during the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival), Marcus Weiss gave the world premiere of Stockhausen's EDENTIA for soprano saxophone and electronics (from KLANG).

)[7] Trio Accanto has been very active in education, promoting tours of several different children's programmes, including specially written works by Helmut Lachenmann, Martin Smolka, Thomas Kessler and others.

The first of these, Funambules,[10] was released in December 2016 and featured music by Georges Aperghis, Rolf Riehm, Johannes Schöllhorn and Stefan Prins, all pieces commissioned by the trio in the first year of Hodges' membership.