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Jessie Cox

Das Bild zeigt ein Portrait von Jessie Cox. Er hat lange, schwarze Dreadlocks und trägt ein hellblaues Hemd. Er gestikuliert mit seiner Hand und scheint zu sprechen.
Das Bild zeigt ein Portrait von Jessie Cox. Er hat lange, schwarze Dreadlocks und trägt ein hellblaues Hemd. Er gestikuliert mit seiner Hand und scheint zu sprechen.
Jessie Cox
© Stephanie Mitchell (Harvard-photographer)

Composer, percussionist and educator Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. He has written over 100 works for various ensemble formations, including electro-acoustic works, solo works, chamber and orchestral works, works for jazz ensembles and choirs. These include commissions and performances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, Heidi Duckler Dance, JACK Quartet and many other international contemporary music ensembles.

 

As a performer, he has appeared in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the USA, has been invited to internationally renowned festivals and has played with musicians from all over the world. His music has been released on Aztec Music’s Declic Jazz label, Gold Bolus Recordings and Infrequent Seams, among others.

 

Cox studied composition with George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Richard Carrick, Annie Gosfield, Seth Cluett, Derek Hurst, Marti Epstein, Alfred Schweizer and percussion with Neal Smith, Tony ‘Thunder’ Smith. His academic work has been published in Sound America magazine, the Castle Of Our Skins blog and Critical Studies in Improvisation. He also regularly presents the results of his research at conferences and festivals.

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