About Jason:
Jason Price was born in Virginia and is currently Artist-in-Residence with Alarm Will Sound at Dickinson College where in addition to playing trumpet, he serves as Technical Director of the ensemble. For six years he worked and taught at the Eastman Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in Performance and Literature in Trumpet. As a soloist and trumpeter he has performed concerts, concertos with orchestras, and solo recitals in North America, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the U.K., Japan and Taiwan specializing in the most difficult and innovative contemporary works for trumpet. Jason has performed in the World Premiere of works by Harrison Birtwistle, Steve Reich, Bernard Rands, Benedict Mason, Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Gordon, Kevin Ernste, Misha Mengleberg, Willhelm Breuker, and Kenny Wheeler. He has performed the American premiere of a solo piece by Peter Maxwell Davies. In 2001 he won 1st Prize in the National Trumpet Competition for his performance of Luciano Berio's SEQUENZA X. He is constantly searching for new works and has over a dozen pieces written for him to date.
This season his concert venues include Lincoln Center, three concerts at Carnegie Hall, Conservatory of Amsterdam, Merkin Hall in New York, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Duke University, the University of South Carolina, and Dartmouth College as well as performances of World Premieres of Wolfgang Rihm and Meredith Monk. He has been guest artist and given master classes and talks at the California Institute of the Arts, Eastman School of Music, Dartmouth College, Carthage College, Virginia Tech, Nazareth College, and two International Trumpet Guild Conferences.
As a jazz player he had shared the stage with Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Phil Woods, and Tim Hagans, with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble. As a composer he has written for electronic and acoustic media as well as dance, film, and commercial and cable television, radio, and multimedia. As a sound designer he most recently created the interactive electronics for the Ossia production of John Cage's SONG BOOKS, University of Rochester's production of Pirandello's SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR and the Hangar Theatre's Production of Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR with director Michael Barakiva.
Jason performs regularly with Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Medusa, GBA, and the Pendulum Quartet. He can be heard on the Nonesuch, Warner Bros., Cantaloupe, and Hossman record labels. Jason studied with Allan Bachelder at Virginia Tech and James Thompson at the Eastman School of Music, where he earned the Doctorate of Musical Arts, Master of Musical Arts, and the Arts Leadership Certificate.