JONATHAN RUSSELL

Composer 111 Haberdasher Street London N1 6EH United Kingdom

(415) 216-9958 jonrussell20@gmail.com

www.jonrussellmusic.com Jonathan Russell is a composer and bass clarinetist whose work has been hailed as “incredibly virtuosic, rocking, and musical” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “a fantastically distorted perpetual motion of awesome” (I Care If You Listen). He has received commissions from ensembles such as the San Francisco Symphony, Imani Winds, Empyrean Ensemble, ADORNO Ensemble, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Wild Rumpus, and Great Noise Ensemble, and performances from numerous other ensembles and performers, including the Berkeley Symphony, So Percussion, Yarn/Wire, Roomful of Teeth, pianist Lisa Moore, and many others. An innovative performer on bass clarinet, he is a member of the heavy metal-inspired Edmund Welles bass clarinet quartet and the ground-breaking Sqwonk bass clarinet duo, which commissions and records new works by established and emerging composers. His compositions are published by Potenza Music Publishing, BCP Music, and Peer Music, and his music has been recorded by the Sqwonk bass clarinet duo, the Kairos Consort, pianist Jeffrey Jacob, The Living Earth show, and Imani Winds. SELECTED RECENT COMPOSITIONS 2014 Double Concerto for Clarinet, Cello, and Orchestra (18:30) Commissioned by and to be premiered by Peninsula Symphony in March 2014 2013 Danny’s Favorite Pocket Watch, for 2 pianos and 2 percussion (10:30) Premiered by Yarn/Wire, Princeton University 2013 Lament and Frippery, for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, harp (9:00) Commissioned and premiered by Wild Rumpus, San Francisco, CA 2012 Unhinged Carnival Fanfare Machine, for orchestra (6:30) Reading session with the New Jersey Symphony, Princeton University 2012 Piano Trio, for violin, cello, and piano (30:00) Premiered by REDSHIFT, Princeton University 2012 Five Two Tango, for violin duo (7:30) Premiered by the Twiolins, Mannheim, Germany Finalist in the Crossover Composition Competition 2012 Supra, for bass clarinet nonet (9:00) Composed for and premiered at ClarinetFest 2012, Lincoln, NE 2011 Twelve Bean Groove Machine, for fl, 2 cl, 2 tpt, 2 tbn, 2 vln, 2 vlc, pno (10:00) Premiered at the 2011 Switchboard Music Festival, San Francisco, CA 2010 Sqwonkzoforus Rex, for 2 bass clarinets and piano four-hands (13:00) Premiered by Sqwonk and ZOFO piano duo, Old First Church, San Francisco 2009 Full Faith and Credit, for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion (9:00) Commissioned and premiered by the ADORNO Ensemble, SF State University 2009 String Quartet #1, for string quartet (13:00) Premiered by the Classical Revolution String Quartet, 2009 Switchboard Music Festival 2007 Bass Clarinet Double Concerto, for 2 solo bass clarinets & orchestra/band (15:00) Premiered by Sqwonk bass clarinet duo & San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra EDUCATION 2010-current Princeton University, PhD Candidate in Composition Composition studies with Paul Lansky, Steve Mackey, Dan Trueman, Dmitri Tymoczko,

and Barbara White 2001-2003 San Francisco Conservatory of Music, MM in Composition Composition studies with Elinor Armer and Dan Becker 1996-2000 Harvard University, BA in Music Composition studies with Geoff Nichols, Bernard Rands, and John Stewart