End Date : October 27, 10:00 am
Dodge Hall,
Room 814 (Oct 26)
Komoda Room,
The Heyman Center for the Humanities (Oct 27)
A lecture by Dr. Jason Gamer.
An exploration of how artists and audience experience music. How do they use symbols to interpret music, and how are these processes similar to interpretation in other disciplines? What is symbolic and innately meaningful in the music itself, and how do we make these determinations? What is the nature of the relationship between artist, audience, and music?
PROGRAM
October 26, 2011 at 5pm – Lecture in 814 Dodge Hall. * Please note that the 8th Floor of Dodge Hall is not handicap accessible.
October 27, 2011 at 10am – Discussion in the Komoda Room of the Heyman Center.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER Jason Gamer is an active performing artist and educator with a broad spectrum of musical abilities and interests. A native of Los Angeles, he earned degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music (B.Mus) and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music (M.Mus, DMA). From 2008-2010 he served as an Assistant Professor at Utah State University where he was Director of Music Theory, and taught private and group lessons in Applied Trumpet Performance. He was also a Lecturer at California State University Dominguez Hills, and in Spring 2010, was invited as a guest instructor to the Utrecht School of the Arts in Utrecht, Holland. Jason plays trumpet in several ensembles including the New West Symphony, St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Solo engagements have included performances with the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, West Coast Composers Forum, the USU Wind Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble, and the renowned United States Continental Army Band. Jason also performs with Hollywood Klezmer, Orchestre Surreal, and on several studio recordings including a new EP with the Jason Lee Bruns Jazz Collective, featuring his original compositions and arrangements. Also an accomplished conductor, Jason has led the Los Angeles Russian String Orchestra, and is a faculty conductor of the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. From 1995-2006, he served as music director and conductor of the Wild Ginger Philharmonic, which he co-founded. In 2004, Jason received the prestigious Founder’s Award for Humanity in the Arts from ICAP, the International Committee of Artists for Peace.
