Dorothy Hindman is a professional composer and music theorist whose works have been performed in concerts in the United States, Italy, Russia, Romania, and the Czech Republic. Her commissions include works for soloists, small and large ensembles, and commercial productions. She is a current recipient of an AMTA/MTNA Commission for their 2002 conference. She was a 1998-99 Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship recipient, and a finalist in the National Symphony Orchestra/Kennedy Center/ASCA commission competition. Her works are in the repertoire of such notable musicians as: cellist Craig Hultgren, hornist Paul Basler, cellist Hugh Livingston, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Operaworks, the Uncommon Practice new music ensemble, Thamyris new music ensemble, and the Gregg Smith Singers. Her works are available on five compact discs on the Living Artist Recordings label.

She is active in creating and supporting many artistic projects serving new music. She was co-founder of and composer-in-residence for Uncommon Practice New Music Ensemble. She was coordinator and executive producer of the UM-SCI CD Project which released a CD in Spring, 1994 of eleven new works by young composers, and which features her solo marimba work, Beyond the Cloud of Unknowing. She has been Assistant Editor of Living Music, a quarterly newsletter featuring articles, reviews, competitions and opportunities for composers, which goes by subscription to composers, ensembles and others interested in new music. As a writer and critic, she is a regular contributor to LIVING MUSIC, and has also been published in 20TH CENTURY MUSIC and The Society of Composers Newsletter. She has an article on “Composition, profession” appearing in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Women in Music, Kristine Burns, ed, Oryx Press. She is a founding member and past President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance. The Alliance is a composer consortium dedicated to performing the works of local Birmingham composers. She is also a member of the International Alliance of Women in Music. In April, 1996, she and her husband co-hosted the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference at Birmingham-Southern College, which had over 100 composers from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Vienna, and Russia in attendance.

She graduated Magna cum laude in Theory/Composition from the University of Miami, and holds a Master of Arts degree from Duke University. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition as a University of Miami Fellow. Her former teachers include Louis Andriessen, Dennis Kam, Stephen Jaffe, Thomas Oboe Lee, and John Van der Slice. She currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where she is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Birmingham-Southern College. She is married to composer Charles Norman Mason, and has two sons, Jacob Hindman Mason and William Charles Mason.