Jason Bahr

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The biographies below may be used with permission. Please contact me for details. 150 Word Biography (well, 152 words to be precise) Composer Jason Bahr (b. 1972, Kansas City, KS) is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Bahr received his B.M. from the University of Missouri —Kansas City Conservatory of music where he studied with Gerald Kemner and James Mobberley. At Indiana University, he received an M.M. and D.M. studying with Samuel Adler, Claude Baker, David Dzubay, Don Freund, and Eugene O ’Brien. Bahr ’s works have received more than 180 combined performances in twenty-nine states and eight foreign countries. He has received awards and grants from the Fromm Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Northridge Composition Prize, Renee B. Fischer Piano Competition, Kubik International Prize, ASCAP, SCI, and the Cambridge Madrigal Singers. He has been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, the Mountain Chamber Players, Krista Riggs and others. When not composing, Bahr frets over his student loan debt and the fate of the Kansas City Royals. SDG

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