Jason Thorpe Buchanan

Jason Thorpe Buchanan’s works have been described as “an unearthly collage of sounds” & “sharply-edged”, performed internationally by ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, Interface, Nikel, Linea, wild Up, and others. Nominated for the 2015 Gaudeamus Prize, three works will be presented at Muziekweek in 2015. His Multimedia Opera HUNGER has received performances at Darmstadt (2014), The Industry’s FIRST TAKE in L.A. (2015), & the MATA Interval 8 Series in NYC (2015) with the [Switch~ Ensemble]. “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...wailing orchestral effects, cuts the ear like a knife. Buchanan delivers.” - LA Times. Fulbright Fellowship (Germany), Artist-in-Residence Bergen, Norway, ASCAP Morton Gould, Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize, newEar, American Prize, commissions from Mizzou, Int.Horn Society, Tzlil Meudcan, Gaudeamus, Eklekto, & others.