Warner Hutchison was Professor and Composer-in-Residence and taught horn, composition, theory, and music history at New Mexico State University for three decades. He was Music Department Chairman for five years, during which a new $6 million Music Center and Recital Hall were built. Dr. Hutchison was twice a resident at the MacDowell Colony, and at the Ernest Bloch Composers Symposium, and has appeared as guest composer in various concerts nationwide sponsored by the Meet the Composer series. As a composer, his catalogue of over 270 works covers a wide range of media, including orchestra, band, choral, chamber music, electronic music, and stage works. Some 50 works have been published by Belwin, Carl Fischer, European American, Kjos, Lorenz, and others, and his works have been performed widely at various music festivals and new music symposia in the U.S., Canada, Japan, the Scandinavian countries, Russia, and throughout Europe. World premieres include those at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, NY; and commissions by the US Air Force Heritage of America Band. In 2005, he received his 32nd annual ASCAP award.