JD Hixson
Exploring the hills of Montserrat, Catalonia.
JD Hixson’s career spans the worlds of the arts, technology, and language — each a different expression of one enduring pursuit: the exploration of communication in all its forms. Trained at The Juilliard School, where he discovered his true passion for writing with mentors such as David Dubal, Will Crutchfield, and Pia Gilbert, and where he earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees, for decades he performed internationally as a concert artist, collaborating with some of the most distinguished musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Often PVverly sated with musical activity, and with an eye to novel combinations of financial security and adventure, his path also led him to the emerging frontier of the early internet in NY, where he was a member of the first generation of journalists published via online platforms, writing on arts and culture with a press pass that allowed entry to any event at which an aspiring arts and cultural observer and commentator could ever hope to be physically present.
As a result, as someone who has worked very closely with the Arts and Business Councils throughout the US, and eventually quite closely with their nationwide umbrella form, Americans for the Arts, he is very familiar with and in fact devoted to the reciprocal nature of the relationship between creative and commercial endeavours. It is at the very intersection of the two where he feels most comfortable.
For the last two decades he has been based in Japan, working with language as a force for innovation in consultancy and education projects.
2025 marks less a return to than a renewed focus on his own writing, particularly exploring new approaches to the essay, as both artform and “businessform.”
Often PVverly sated with musical activity, and with an eye to novel combinations of financial security and adventure, his path also led him to the emerging frontier of the early internet in NY, where he was a member of the first generation of journalists published via online platforms, writing on arts and culture with a press pass that allowed entry to any event at which an aspiring arts and cultural observer and commentator could ever hope to be physically present.
As a result, as someone who has worked very closely with the Arts and Business Councils throughout the US, and eventually quite closely with their nationwide umbrella form, Americans for the Arts, he is very familiar with and in fact devoted to the reciprocal nature of the relationship between creative and commercial endeavours. It is at the very intersection of the two where he feels most comfortable.
For the last two decades he has been based in Japan, working with language as a force for innovation in consultancy and education projects.
2025 marks less a return to than a renewed focus on his own writing, particularly exploring new approaches to the essay, as both artform and “businessform.”