Collection: Belcher, Jason

Jason Belcher (b.1987) is a composer and improviser whose music is concerned with stylistic mobility and varying degrees of performer control. He can be heard in various D.I.Y contexts throughout the Northeastern United States and is a member of the Vermont-Based ensemble Brass Balagan. In recent years he has worked with musicians such as Arthur Brooks, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, John Zorn, and was involved in the making of Voyage in a White Building I, a 2013 release of music by Burr Van Nostrand. Currently, Belcher teaches musicianship and history at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Ph. D in Theory/Composition in 2023. 

Belcher previously attended the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Frank Carlberg, Robert Cogan, John Mallia, and the poet Ruth Lepson. His solo works and chamber pieces have been performed by vocalists Liz Pearse and Robert Frankenberry, violist Carrie Frey, Ensemble Linea, Loadbang, the Arditti Quartet, and the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra.