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Updates

August 19, 2020

UT Austin: Visiting Lecturer in Composition & Interim Director of Electronic Music Studios. I’m thrilled to be joining the faculty as Visiting Lecturer in Composition & Interim Director of the Electronic Music Studios (UTEMS) at the Butler School of Music - University of...

April 17, 2020

POSTPONED - MATA Commission for ICE and HKNME. MATA has commissioned The End of Forgetting for octet and electronics, originally conceived for the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble before the COVID-19 pandemic. To be premiered in April of...

April 09, 2020

New video of Songs for Antonin by Esaias Järnegard. New video recording of Esaias Järnegard’s Songs for Antonin (2018) at Areté Venue and Gallery with the [Switch~ Ensemble], Jason Thorpe Buchanan, conductor & A/V recording.

January 22, 2020

The video recording of all-forgetting-is-retrieval (2019) for ensemble and augmented conductor has been released. “Dec. 27, 2019: The video for all-forgetting-is-retrieval (2019), written for the TACETi Ensemble and Piyawat Louilarpprasert for ensemble and augmented conductor, is now available.”

January 20, 2020

Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Guest Composer Lecture, Singapore. Jan. 20, 2020: Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Guest Composer Lecture, Singapore.

December 27, 2019

all-forgetting-is-retrieval (2019) score for ensemble and augmented conductor now available. Video coming soon!. “Dec. 27, 2019: The score for all-forgetting-is-retrieval (2019), written for the TACETi Ensemble and Piyawat Louilarpprasert for ensemble and augmented conductor, is now available. Audio and Video from the July...

November 28, 2019

walkside, lost (2015) featured on Score Follower as a Fall 2019 selected work. #FollowMyScore. “Nov. 28, 2019: walkside, lost (2015) featured on Score Follower as a Fall 2019 selected work. Big thanks to Gaudeamus Muziekweek and Slagwerk Den Haag for this premiere in 2015,...

October 09, 2019

UT Austin Visting Composer. UT Austin Butler School of Music Residency October 2019. Teaching lessons and courses for composition and electronic music students, working towards Telematic Performance collaboration between UT Austin and Mahidol University,...

September 01, 2019

University of Miami Frost School of Music Residency. Conducting new works by six faculty members during a Switch~ Ensemble residency at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami on February 18, 2020: Charles Norman Mason, Dorothy Hindman,...

August 31, 2019

Harvard Group for New Music Residency. [Switch~] is looking forward to collaborating with composers from Harvard University during our Harvard Group for New Music residency from September 29 - October 6. We’ll be premiering five new...

July 05, 2019

TICF Academy for Young Composers. Aug. 5-10, 2019, Bangkok: Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF) Academy for Young Composers, Director and Faculty Member. Ensembles-in-Residence Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Duo Ostinato, and faculty members Nina C....

June 06, 2019

Department Chair of Composition & Music Theory.. June. 6, 2019: New Position as Department Chair of Composition & Music Theory, as well as continuing in my role as Lecturer in Composition, Theory, and Electroacoustic Music Composition at...

April 17, 2019

Northern Colorado Visting Composer. Apr. 17, 2019, University of Northern Colorado: Guest Composer Lecture, lessons with composition students.

March 29, 2019

Ph.D. Dissertation Defended!. I am pleased to have successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation at the Eastman School of Music, with research on the music of Georges Aperghis, Mar. 29, 2019: Rochester, NY.

July 13, 2018

New video of Unwound Path by Matt Sargent. New video recording of Matt Sargent’s Unwound Path (2018) at Cornell University with the [Switch~ Ensemble], Jason Thorpe Buchanan, conductor & A/V recording.

April 06, 2018

College of Music, Mahidol University. Apr. 6, 2018: I’m thrilled to share that I have accepted accepted a position as full-time Lecturer in Composition, Theory, and Electronic Music at Mahidol University’s College of Music in...

March 06, 2018

FÜNF+FÜNF Contrabass Clarinet and Percussion Festival, Berlin. New work being commissioned for contrabass clarinets, percussionists, live video-processing, and electronics. http://5plus5-festival.de/

March 06, 2018

Switch~ Ensemble Upstate New York Tour. Feb. 22 - Mar. 5, 2018: the [Switch~ Ensemble] New York State Tour. Ensemble-in-residence performing new works by students and faculty at Cornell University, Bard College, Ithaca College, & Buffalo...

January 08, 2018

Artist-In-Residence, Embassy of Foreign Artists. Jan.8-June 28, 2018: Embassy of Foreign Artists Geneva, Switzerland. Awarded six months as Artist-In-Residence. http://www.jasonthorpebuchanan.com/www.eofa.ch

November 29, 2017

Guest Composer Lecture, Stanford University CCRMA Colloquium. Nov. 29, 2017: Guest Composer Lecture, Stanford University CCRMA Colloquium https://ccrma.stanford.edu/

November 06, 2017

San Francisco Center for New Music Workshop. [Switch~] is happy to announce a call for scores and proposals to participate in a workshop at the San Francisco Center for New Music on December 13th, 2017 at 2pm....

October 09, 2017

Artist-In-Residence, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Oct. 9-Nov. 3, 2017: Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Artist Residency, Saratoga, Wyoming.

October 08, 2017

New Music USA Grant. [Switch~] is thrilled to have been awarded a $4500 grant from New Music USA to support our Spring 2018 tour.

June 28, 2017

2017 VIPA Festival Executive Director and Faculty member. Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival.. June 28-July 8, 2017: VIPA Festival Executive Director and Faculty member. Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival.

May 09, 2017

University of Chicago Switch~ Residency. May 9-15, 2017: University of Chicago Residency with the [Switch~ Ensemble] performing new works by University of Chicago composers.

April 26, 2017

University of Virginia Guest Lecture. April 26, 2017: Guest lecture, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA.

January 05, 2017

Curator, two-year term. San Francisco Center for New Music..

January 03, 2017

Guest lecturer & technical consultant/mentor composer, University of Chicago.. Jan. 3-5, 2017: Guest lecturer & technical consultant/mentor composer at the University of Chicago. [Switch~ Ensemble] Residency. https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/chime/switch-on/

September 27, 2016

Guest Composer Lecture, San Jose State University Music Department. Sep. 27, 2016: Guest lecture, San Jose State University.

September 27, 2016

Guest Composer talk, Vernon Salon Series, Oakland. Sep. 23, 2016: Guest composer talk, Vernon Salon, Oakland.

June 23, 2016

Avaloch Farm Music Institute residency, [Switch~ Ensemble] and Timothy McCormack. June 23-30, 2016: Avaloch Farm Music Institute residency with the [Switch~ Ensemble] and Timothy McCormack, new works by McCormack, Bean, Walton, Santos, Papatrechas, Gillies, Corren, and more. http://avalochfarmmusic.org/avaloch-residents/

May 10, 2016

Guest Composer Lecture, Portland State University, Composition & Saxophone Seminars, Music Department, Porland, OR. May 10, 2016: Guest Lecturer, Portland State University, Composition & Saxophone seminars. Portland, OR

January 12, 2016

Guest lecturer at the University of Chicago.. Jan. 12, 2016: Guest lecturer at the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.

December 09, 2015

[Switch~] has been selected to present Part III of Hunger on the MATA Interval 8 Series in NYC.. Dec. 9, 2014: the [Switch~ Ensemble] has been selected to present Part III of Hunger on the MATA Interval 8 Series in New York City, May 2015 alongside works of...

October 14, 2015

Guest lecturer at Bergen senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK), Norway. Oct. 14, 2015: Guest lecturer at Bergen senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK), Norway. http://www.bek.no/front?locale=en

October 02, 2015

Artist-in-Residence, USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. Oct. 2, 2015: Artist in Residence at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway with support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for work on Hunger and other commissions. Three month residency period. http://www.hungeropera.com/...

April 15, 2015

Guest lecturer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Apr. 15, 2015: Guest Lecturer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

March 28, 2015

2015 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Double Concerto. Mar. 28, 2015: 2015 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Double Concerto for Two Horns & Chamber Orchestra. http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/ascap-announces-2015-morton-gould-young-composer-award-winners/

March 28, 2015

LA Times review of HUNGER on The Industry's FIRST TAKE:. “Jason Thorpe Buchanan’s “Hunger,”… is a kind of training session in mental disintegration…An ungodly opera needs ugly music, singers who produce primal sounds, an electric guitar that sounds scraped raw,...

February 11, 2015

Intro video for premiere of Hunger Part III at the Industry's FIRST TAKE in Los Angeles.. http://www.jasonthorpebuchanan.com/video—hunger.html https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-first-take-six-operas-review-20150223-column.html http://theindustryla.org/projects/project_firsttake15.php

February 11, 2015

A version of my article Dealing With Time (Writing an Opera) has been featured on The Industry's blog.. Original essay can be viewed here. 2015 http://theindustryla.org/blog/ http://theindustryla.org/projects/project_firsttake15.php

December 09, 2014

Hunger has been selected for The Industry's L.A. FIRST TAKE with wild Up.. Dec. 9, 2014: Hunger has been selected for The Industry’s Los Angeles “FIRST TAKE” West Coast Workshop for New Operas with wild Up. A public performance of Part III will...

October 21, 2014

Nominated for the 2015 Gaudeamus Prize, performances with Insomnio, New European Ensemble, and Slagwerk Den Haag during Gaudeamus Muziekweek, September 2015.. www.muziekweek.nl

September 26, 2014

Winner of Iron Composer 5-hour International Competition. Cleveland, OH.. Sep. 26, 2014: Announced winner of the 5-hour International Iron Composer Composition Competition in Cleveland, OH, with a prize of $1,000 and commission for the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra. World...

September 14, 2014

Appointed Coordinator of the Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival in Spain.. http://www.vipafestival.org/

September 10, 2014

Commission from the Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Program of the International Horn Society to begin writing my Double Concerto for horn soloists Jeff Nelsen, Michael Walker and the Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble with conductor Brad Lubman..

September 09, 2014

Winner of the 4th Annual newEar Student Composers' Competition..

June 13, 2014

Selected as Artist-in-Residence USF Verftet, Bergen City Council, Norway. Jun. 13, 2014: Artist in Residence USF Verftet, Bergen City Council, Norway

April 18, 2014

2014 Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize, Eastman School of Music, for Asymptotic Flux: Second Study in Entropy..

March 31, 2014

2014 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Asymptotic Flux: Second Study in Entropy.. Mar. 31, 2014: 2014 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Asymptotic Flux: Second Study in Entropy. New Music Box Article here. http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2014-ascap-morton-gould-young-composer-awards-announced/

March 17, 2014

Thrilled to announce a collaboration between myself and critically acclaimed writer Darcie Dennigan on our multimedia opera based on Knut Hamsun's Sult.. Mar. 17, 2014: Thrilled to announce a collaboration between myself and critically acclaimed writer Darcie Dennigan, poet-in-residence at the University of Connecticut, on our multimedia opera based upon Knut Hamsun’s...

January 23, 2014

Selected for Tzlil Meudcan International Music Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel with Ensemble Nikel (July 2014).. Tzlil Meudcan International Music Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel with Ensemble Nikel (July 2014)

January 23, 2014

Selected to write new works for Contemporary Opera Workshop at the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (August 2014).. Jan. 23, 2014: Selected to write new works for Contemporary Opera Workshop at the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (August 2014).

Events

September 15, 2020

POSTPONED The End of Forgetting (2020) Asian premiere, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.
Hong Kong,

April 17, 2020

POSTPONED - The End of Forgetting (2020) world premiere, International Contemporary Ensemble, MATA Festival.
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

March 21, 2020

POSTPONED soliloquios del viento (2017), Switch~ Ensemble. Tech for Katharina Rosenberger's Up Close (2019).
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

March 18, 2020

POSTPONED soliloquios del viento (2017), Switch~ Ensemble. Tech for Katharina Rosenberger's Up Close (2019).
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

February 17, 2020

Conducting six world premieres by faculty composers, Switch~ Ensemble.
Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

December 05, 2019

Workshop premiere of Up Close with support from Guggenheim and New Music USA.
Experimental Theatre, San Diego, CA

October 19, 2019

Soliloquios del Viento (2017), Ensemble Interface. Transit Festival.
Leuven, Belgium

October 05, 2019

Harvard Group for New Music Residency.
Harvard University, Paine Hall, Cambridge, MA

August 19, 2019

soliloquios del Viento (2017), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. TICF.
Bangkok, Thailand

July 07, 2019

all-forgetting-is-retrieval (2018), world premiere, TACETi Ensemble & augmented conductor. TNMAS.
Bangkok, Thailand

March 28, 2019

Tech for Silva, Diels, Fujikura, Xiao. Analog Synth for Spitzfaden. [Switch~ Ensemble] Eastman Audio Research Studio (EARS) residency.
Image/Sound Festival, Rochester, NY

February 28, 2019

Conducting world premieres of Esaias Järnegard's Songs for Antonin and Adrien Trybucki's Infinite Extension, [Switch~ Ensemble].
Areté Venue & Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

January 07, 2019

surface, tension (2018) & pulp (2015), Composition Faculty Recital, Thailand.
College of Music, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

May 24, 2018

surface, tension (2018), world premiere. Alexandra Bellon & Anne Briset, Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland
Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland

March 06, 2018

Conducting Matt Sargent's Unwound Path (2018), Tech for Cheah and Davis, [Switch~ Ensemble].
Louis P Ciminelli Recital Hall, Buffalo, NY

March 02, 2018

Conducting premiere of Jihyun Kim's Once Upon a Time... (2018) and Matt Sargent's Unwound Path (2018), [Switch~ Ensemble].
Cornell University, Barnes Hall Auditorium, Ithaca, NY

March 01, 2018

Conducting premiere of Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei's At any rate (2018), [Switch~ Ensemble].
Cornell University, Barnes Hall Auditorium, Ithaca, NY

February 25, 2018

Conducting premiere of Matt Sargent's Unwound Path (2018), [Switch~ Ensemble].
Bard College Blum Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

December 13, 2017

Conducting Victor Ibarra's Química del agua. [Switch~ Ensemble] afternoon Composer workshop with mentors Jason Thorpe Buchanan and Clay Mettens.
San Francisco Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA

December 12, 2017

Conducting Victor Ibarra's Química del agua, [Switch~ Ensemble].
UC Berkeley Music Department, Berkeley, CA

August 08, 2017

ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (2018), world premiere, Ensemble Voix Nouvelles. Royaumont, Paris Region.
Asnières-sur-Oise, France

August 02, 2017

PANIC ARCHITECTURE world premiere, Talea Ensemble. Time Spans Festival, NYC.
DiMenna Center, New York City,

June 28, 2017

soliloquios del viento, premiere of electronic version, Ensemble Interface. 2017 VIPA Festival.
Valencia, Spain

May 14, 2017

Conducting Joungbum Lee's pa-an, Tech for Garifzyanova, Young, Gradone, Myers, [Switch~ Ensemble] University of Chicago Residency.
Elastic Arts Chicago, Chicago, IL

May 12, 2017

Tech for Camci, Murray, Page, Rolock. [Switch~ Ensemble] University of Chicago Residency, mentor composer.
Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL

April 26, 2017

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Matt Evans.
Perkinson Recital Hall, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

March 06, 2017

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Casey Grev.
San Francisco Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA

March 05, 2017

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Casey Grev. San Francisco Hot Air Festival.
San Francisco Conservatory, San Francisco, CA

December 14, 2016

Tech for Chandler, Murray, Sargent. [Switch~ Ensemble].
Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA

September 25, 2016

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Matt Evans, [Switch~ Ensemble].
Vanguard New Music Guest Artist Series, Kent State University
Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent, OH

September 17, 2016

Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy (2015), Mivos Quartet + Madison Greenstone.
NEON Music Festival
Las Vegas, NV

September 09, 2016

soliloquios del viento (2016) for six singers and eight instrumentalists, world premiere. Talea Ensemble + EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble.
Royaumont Académie Voix Nouvelles
Asnières-sur-Oise, France

July 13, 2016

Conducting world premiere of Igor Santos' lamento (2017), Sound for McCormack, Steiger, Gilmore, Papatrechas, Bean. [Switch~ Ensemble].
VIPA Festival Residency.
Auditorio del Conservatorio Superior "Joaquín Rodrigo", València, Spain

July 09, 2016

Conducting world premiere of Namhoon Kim's Komorebi (2017), Sound for Steiger, Corren, Arrelin, Giang, Gillies. [Switch~ Ensemble].
VIPA Festival Residency.
Auditorio del Conservatorio Superior "Joaquín Rodrigo", València, Spain

May 22, 2016

Conducting Chris Chandler's Smoke and Mirrors, Tech for Diez-Fischer's Loop's Definition and Alexander Schubert's Star Me Kitten, [Switch~ Ensemble].
Queens New Music Festival
Secret Theatre, Long Island City, NY

May 14, 2016

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Sean Fredenburg.
Portland State University
Portland State University, Portland, OR

April 29, 2016

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Emily Jane Loboda.
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

April 24, 2016

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Emily Jane Loboda.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

April 11, 2016

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), Casey Grev.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

November 29, 2015

hunger fragments (2015) for sixteen solo voices, world premiere. Commissioned by the NY Virtuoso Singers.
National Sawdust
Brooklyn, NY

November 14, 2015

gimme shelter for three percussionists, electronics, and live video processing (2015), world premiere. Commissioned by Eklekto Percussion. L'Abri - Espace culturel.
Geneva, Switzerland

September 13, 2015

walkside, lost (2015) for three percusssionists, electronics, and live video processing, world premiere. Slagwerk Den Haag. Commissioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweeek as a nominee for the 2015 Gaudeamus Prize.
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Utrecht, Netherlands

September 12, 2015

Asymptotic Flux: Second Study in Entropy (2013), European premiere. Insomnio Ensemble.
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Utrecht, Netherlands

September 12, 2015

Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy (2013), Dutch premiere. New European Ensemble.
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Utrecht, Netherlands

July 24, 2015

Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy (2013), European premiere. Mivos Quartet and Madison Greenstone.
VIPA Festival
Valencia, Spain

July 13, 2015

Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp (2015), world premiere. Matt Evans.
World Saxophone Congress
Strasbourg, France

May 15, 2015

Hunger (Part III, Scene I & 2, 2014-2015), staged premiere, [Switch~ Ensemble].
MATA Interval 8 Series
Benzaquen Hall, New York City, NY

May 09, 2015

de/ter| |ior.ation (2015), world premiere. Commissioned by Blue Water Chamber Orchestra as winner of Iron Composer 2015.
Cleveland, OH

April 13, 2015

...durat(A)ions: 'broken landscape' (2013), Nextet and UNLV Percussion Ensemble April 13, 17, 18. Guest Composer, NEXTET, UNLV.
Las Vegas, NV

February 21, 2015

Hunger (Part III, Scene I & 2, 2014-2015), concert premiere, The Industry & Wild Up.
FIRST TAKE Opera Workshop
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA

October 12, 2014

Six Shelley Songs (2008), Sirje Aleksandra Viise, soprano & Davorin Mori, piano.
Klangenfurt, Austria

October 10, 2014

Six Shelley Songs (2008), Sirje Aleksandra Viise, soprano & Davorin Mori, piano.
Dravograd, Slovenia

September 26, 2014

Winner of Iron Composer 5-hour International Competition.
Cleveland, OH

September 06, 2014

Six Shelley Songs (2008), Sirje Aleksandra Viise, soprano & Davorin Mori, piano.
Berlin, Germany

August 15, 2014

Hunger (Part III, Sc. 1, 2014), world premiere. Ensemble Interface, Contemporary Opera Workshop, Aug 14 & 15.
Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany

July 10, 2014

antistasis 1 (2014), world premiere. Ensemble Nikel.
Tzlil Meudcan International New Music Festival
Tel Aviv, Israel

June 25, 2014

oggetti I (Omaggio a Sciarrino) (2014), world premiere. Fiati 5 Wind Quintet. Composer-in-Residence.
Chamber Music Campania
Lucera, Italy

June 02, 2014

Conducting Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy (2012) and Smoke and Mirrors by Christopher Chandler. [Switch~ Ensemble].
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYC, NY

April 18, 2014

First Study for Alto Saxophone: doublethink (2012), Michel Bianchini, saxophone.
East(a)lia, Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY

April 13, 2014

Conducting Bryan Jacobs' TsTs, Tech for Kokoras. [Switch~ Ensemble].
Eastman Computer Music Center Concert.
Sproull Atrium, Rochester, NY

March 21, 2014

Double Concerto for Two Horns and Chamber Orchestra (2014), world premiere. Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble. Jeff Nelsen & Michael Walker, horn soloists, Brad Lubman, conductor.
Eastman Musica Nova plays Zorn, Morris, Thorpe Buchanan
Rochester, NY

Jason Thorpe Buchanan