Composer Jason Bahr (b. 1972, Kansas City, KS) is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and a HARP Research Fellow at Mississippi State University. Bahr received his B.M. from the University of Missouri—Kansas City Conservatory of music where he studied with Gerald Kemner and James Mobberly. 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. These include performances at conferences of the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc. the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers, the New Music North Festival (Canada), Sound New (CA), Summer Music Series (Chester, England), the inaugural ppIANISSIMO festival (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Sixth International Review of Contemporary Music (Belgrade, Serbia).

He has received awards and grants from the Fromm Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Northridge Composition Prize, the American Music Center, Renee B. Fischer Piano Competition, Kubik International Prize, ASCAP, SCI, and the Cambridge Madrigal Singers. Bahr has received commissions from the Mountain Chamber Players, percussionist Grant Braddock (Exit 9), conductor Theresa Spencer (Cottey College), the University of Oklahoma Percussion Ensemble, and English hornist Krista Riggs. Tauromee Music and Keyboard Percussion Publications publish his works. He is a member of ASCAP, the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc., and the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers.

When not composing, Bahr frets over his student loan debt and the fate of the Kansas City Royals. SDG

He has received awards and grants from the Fromm Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Northridge Composition Prize, the American Music Center, Renee B. Fischer Piano Competition, Kubik International Prize, ASCAP, SCI, and the Cambridge Madrigal Singers Bahr has received commissions from the Mountain Chamber Players, percussionist Grant Braddock (Exit 9), conductor Theresa Spencer (Cottey College), the University of Oklahoma Percussion Ensemble, and English hornist Krista Riggs. Tauromee Music and Keyboard Percussion Publications publish his works. He is a member of ASCAP, the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc., and the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers.

When not composing, Bahr frets over his student loan debt and the fate of the Kansas City Royals. During the 2003 baseball season, Bahr actually caught a foul ball, but later lost it down a sewer. Ironically, this incident encapsulates the 2003 Royals’ season precisely. SDG