Featuring multiple wind ensembles
A founding and current member of the influential quartet Sō Percussion, composer/percussionist Jason Treuting has appeared in performance throughout the world, from the Barbican to Lincoln Center, to Carnegie Hall, DOM Moscow, Walt Disney Hall and elsewhere. His compositions, widely noted for their compelling rhythmic language and evocative expressivity, have been performed by artists, including Shara Nova, the JACK Quartet, TIGUE, Susan Marshall and Company, and others.
Additionally, Treuting explores and composes music in collaboration with artists, including laptop artist/composer Cenk Ergun, guitarist Grey Mcmurray, and guitarist/composer Steve Mackey (their New Amsterdam album, Orpheus Unsung, has received widespread critical acclaim), among others. Treuting’s original compositions include Amid the Noise, an evolving suite of musical explorations scored for a flexible range of instruments; this work has been performed widely by Sō Percussion, Matmos and other artists, at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Barbican, the Walker Arts Center, National Sawdust and elsewhere. It has been presented by Fast Forward Austin, Kadence Arts Boston, Chatterbird, and others, and was recorded by Sō Percussion for release on Cantaloupe Records.
Jason Treuting is co-director of the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, an annual intensive course on the campus of Princeton University for college-aged percussionists. He is also co-director of a new percussion program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music and is a lecturer of music at Princeton University, where Sō Percussion is ensemble-in-residence.
As part of the KU School of Music’s Prairie Winds Festival, Treuting will perform with multiple ensembles including the KU Wind Ensemble (KUWE). Described by The New York Times as “one of America’s most esteemed concert bands,” the KU Wind Ensemble is the premier wind band at the University of Kansas. The group has several highly acclaimed performance credits for commercial CDs on the Klavier, Naxos, Ecstatic, Summit, Cantaloupe and Mark Custom labels. Their Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 was pronounced by Feast of Music as “showing amazing chops in their transitions and an impressive range of dynamics.” Besides Carnegie Hall, KUWE performed for President Obama in 2015, the national convention of the College Band Directors National Association in 2017, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2018, the Milan, Italy Festival of Bands in 2022, the American Bandmasters Association national convention in 2023 and was recently recognized as the 2023 college/university recipient of The American Prize in Band/Wind Ensemble Performance. KUWE performs a diverse repertoire of the highest caliber, from chamber works to large ensemble pieces, and has a strong commitment to new music and to the finest standard band repertoire.
