Transitional composer, vocalist, conductor. Hailed by the SFSU school of music faculty as one of the "top students in composition in the last 20 years."

Hello! well, just finished my MA in Composition, and through recent projects and opportunities have been merging out of the scholastic arena and into the real world so-to-speak, hence the word "transitional." If you would like to hear samples of my work, please visit my website. Thanks!

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Jason Bush holds degrees in Composition from San Francisco State University and Washington State University; his teachers include Ronald Caltabiano, Richard Festinger, and Charles Argersinger. As a vocalist he has toured the West Coast, France, central Europe, and Russia. His first major vocal work, Receive Our Prayer, was premiered internationally in March 2005, in St. Petersburg Russia during the International Spring Youth Choruses and Orchestras Festival. Jason sang the Tenor solo in the performance.

As a composer Jason has written numerous original works and arrangements for choir, as well as works for vocal and instrumental ensembles ranging from solo to orchestral. In the spring of 2006 he completed a commission to set the four Marian Antiphons for a cappella chorus, writing each one for a specific California State University Choral Ensemble. In the summer of 2006 the 15-instrument version of his cycle for orchestra, Exodus, was premiered during the Conductors Institute at Bard College in New York. Exodus was featured as the closing work of the program, and Jason conducted the ensemble during performance.

Jason is a recipient of the San Francisco State University Graduate Award of Distinguished Achievement, where at the ceremony the Dean of the department of Creative Arts read a statement by the music faculty considering him to be one of the "top students in composition in the past 20 years." Jason resides in San Francisco, CA, where he has been awarded a grant for his music from the Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum.

www.myspace.com/jasonrbush

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"Music should be mysterious, beautiful, and thought-provoking; it should be coherent - yet impossible to adaquately describe with words."

works of 2006-07:

EXODUS ~ for chamber orchestra (also re-scored for 15 players).

4 MARIAN ANTIPHONS ~ for s.a.t.b. chorus a cappella, w/ divisi.

STRING QUARTET No.1

BELOVED ~ song set for high voice, violin, piano.

TWO FANTASIES ~ for b-flat clarinet, viola, percussion, and prepared piano.

LEAVES ARE FALLING ~ for s.a.t.b. chorus a cappella, divisi.

A BEAUTIFUL DAY ~ for a cappella s.a.t.b. double chorus, antiphonally, w/ divisi in all parts.