Jason Taurins


Jason playing on a recital.

Jason Taurins (b. 1991, he/him/his) is a music educator, composer/arranger, and clinician. He has lived in Arizona since 2015. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Education degree from Western Michigan University, where he studied composition with Lisa Coons and Richard Adams. His musical interests include writing for wind bands, arranging for marching band, and writing marching band drill, as well as writing chamber music. His influences are diverse, including the great Classical composers, the twentieth century avant garde, jazz, classic rock, and metal.

He has been commissioned and performed by performers and ensembles from around the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He was a winner of the 2017 Fifteen Minutes of Fame competition. He has been invited to perform with the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project in Schladming, Austria. You can listen to his music on PARMA Recordings and Phasma Music.

His music is self-published through Klangfarbenmelodien Music (ASCAP), Carl Fischer Music, Excelcia Music Publishing, Wingert-Jones, and T.U.X. People’s Music.

He is a Brother of Kappa Kappa Psi, and holds membership in Pi Kappa Lambda, Alpha Lambda Delta, the Society of Composers, Inc., and the National Association for Music Education.

You can learn more by visiting https://jasontaurins.com/.

Compositions

Saxharp (2017) - for Saxophone and Harp
Selected for the Harp Legacy Project.
Sibling Rivalry (2016)
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Winner, "Fifteen Minutes of Fame," Angela Collier Reynolds (flute) & Patrick Reynolds (trombone) recording.
a very small carol (2017)
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Recorded in the UK by harpist Olivia Jageurs and tubist Ray Hearne in 2017.
Moser's Mobius (2017)
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Inspired by a limerick by Leo Moser, and the oeuvre of band works by Varese, this piece creates an abstract musical space, where pitch represents up/down; volume forward/backward; timbre left/right; rhythm time; and percussion, an abstract fourth spatial dimension.