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QUINN MASON (b. 1996) is currently a student at the Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts where he studies composition with Lane Harder. He previously studied at Richland College with Jordan Kuspa and Texas Christian University with Blaise Ferrandino. For four years, Quinn studied at the University of Texas-Dallas with Winston Stone, who guided him through the fundamentals of music theory and composition.
In June 2013, Quinn's Bulldog Fanfare was performed at his graduation ceremony from North Dallas High School. Quinn received The Dallas Foundation's Tommy Tranchin Award that summer, giving him the opportunity to work with UTD's Robert X. Rodriguez. In April 2015, Quinn was selected as a winner of the American Composers Forum NextNotes High School Competition, in which his winning piece was premiered at the Dallas Museum of Art. This also granted him the opportunity to work with composers such as Libby Larsen in Minneapolis and a second performance of the piece in June of that same year. Additionally, Quinn was one of three winners selected for the 2015 Philadelphia Youth Orchestra young composer's composition contest. |
In 2016, Quinn won first place in the Voices of Change 2016 Texas Young Composers Project for his piece Two Fleeting Daydreams. In 2017, Quinn was named a winner of the Texas A&M University Chamber Music Symposium Composition contest for his piece There's Been a Breach, premiered by the Atlantic Brass Quintet and giving him the opportunity to work with David Maslanka. Recently, Quinn has received commissions by artists and groups such as Voces Intimae (a Dallas-based art song organization), the New Texas Symphony Orchestra (for his Symphony no. 3, premiered in June 2018), and David Cooper, the principal horn player of the Berlin Philharmonic. Upcoming commissions include a full-length orchestral work for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to be premiered in 2019.
As a conductor, Quinn has led the Brevard Sinfonia and the TCU Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Richland Wind Symphony and various other ensembles at Richland College, TCU, and the Brevard Music Center. He has conducted some of his own works and has led the world premieres of pieces by his colleagues. He has studied conducting with Derrick Logozzo at Richland College and Dr. German Gutierrez at TCU, as well as supplementary lessons with Will White, former assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
His music has also received premieres and performances from the Cezanne Quartet and various bands at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Quinn has also worked as a copyist for the opera Wading Home by Mary Alice Rich (a Dallas composer); composed and published a series of bassoon studies performed and recorded by Kristian Oma Ronnes; and has had his music featured on WRR's radio program "New at Nine."
As a conductor, Quinn has led the Brevard Sinfonia and the TCU Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Richland Wind Symphony and various other ensembles at Richland College, TCU, and the Brevard Music Center. He has conducted some of his own works and has led the world premieres of pieces by his colleagues. He has studied conducting with Derrick Logozzo at Richland College and Dr. German Gutierrez at TCU, as well as supplementary lessons with Will White, former assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
His music has also received premieres and performances from the Cezanne Quartet and various bands at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Quinn has also worked as a copyist for the opera Wading Home by Mary Alice Rich (a Dallas composer); composed and published a series of bassoon studies performed and recorded by Kristian Oma Ronnes; and has had his music featured on WRR's radio program "New at Nine."
CURRENT AND UPCOMING PROJECTS
- Inner City Rhapsody, commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, to be premiered in 2019
- Untitled Work for Wind Ensemble - to be premiered as part of the M.O.T.I.F. Triptych Consortium with composers Josh Trentadue and Kevin Day
SELECTED MEDIA
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