Jason Price is a trumpet performer, composer, and improviser. As a soloist and trumpeter he has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia. Jason has performed in the World Premiere of works by John Adams, Harrison Birtwistle, Steve Reich, Bernard Rands, Benedict Mason, Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Gordon, Misha Mengleberg, Willhelm Breuker, Wolfgang Rihm, Meredith Monk, and Kenny Wheeler. He has performed the American premiere of a solo piece by Peter Maxwell Davies. In 2001 he won 1st Prize in the National Trumpet Competition for his performance of Luciano Berio's Sequenza. For six years he worked and taught at the Eastman Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in Performance and Literature in Trumpet. He also studied with Allen Bachelder at Virginia Tech, in his hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia.
Jason is the trumpet player for Alarm Will Sound, a new music ensemble based in New York. Recent performance venues include Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Conservatory of Amsterdam, the Whitney Museum, RadioKulturHaus in Vienna, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Kitchen, and the Knitting Factory. He can be heard on the Nonesuch, Warner Brothers, Cantaloupe, AudioDrain, and Ace-Fu labels.
He has been guest artist and given master classes and talks recently at the New York University, California Institute of the Arts, Eastman School of Music, Dartmouth College, Carthage College, Virginia Tech, Nazareth College, and two International Trumpet Guild Conferences. Jason has also served on the faculty of Dickinson College and Susquehanna University.
As a composer he has written electronic and acoustic music as well as dance, film, television, radio, and multimedia. As a sound designer he recently created the interactive electronics for several theater productions and sound installations. His work centers on the evolution of communication devices into musical devices.