Jason Thorpe Buchanan

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Jason Thorpe Buchanan is an American composer, Artistic Director of the [Switch~ Ensemble], and Artistic Associate at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden. Formerly Chair of Composition, Theory, and Electroacoustic Music at Mahidol University, Managing Director of the Mizzou New Music Initiative (U Missouri), and Director of the UT Austin Electronic Music Studios. He holds a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music, and has been commissioned and sought internationally by Alarm Will Sound, Talea, Nikel, Interface, Eklekto, Slagwerk Den Haag, Royaumont, EXAUDI, Eastman Musica Nova, UChicago, Stanford University, the Bergen Center for Elektronisk Kunst, and others. His opera Hunger received performances at Darmstadt, The Industry’s FIRST TAKE, and MATA. Honors include a Fulbright Fellowship (Hamburg), nomination for the Gaudeamus Prize, an American-Scandinavian Foundation Grant, and fellowships at the Embassy of Foreign Artists (CH), Bogliasco Foundation (IT), and SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO (DE).