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Chris Jonas
Chris Jonas (born September 3, 1966, in Newport Beach, California) is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based composer, conductor, soprano and tenor saxophone player, filmmaker, and video artist.
Jonas has performed, recorded, and toured around the world with many musicians including TILT Brass.., the Crossing Choir, Del Sol String Quartet, Butch Morris, Assif Tsahar, James Emery, Myra Melford, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton
Since 1997, Jonas has acted as a board member of the Tri-Centric Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to the ongoing work of Anthony Braxton, and is currently acting there as Vice President
In 2014, Jonas worked with Anthony Braxton in partnership with the Tri-Centric Foundation to create a projected video environment for Braxton's third major production of an opera, Trillium J (The Non-Unconfessionables), which premiered at Roulette, in Brooklyn, NY. For the 2015 Torino Jazz Festival and the 2019 Berlin Jazz Festival, Jonas served as a conductor for Braxton's 63-person orchestra project, Sonic Genome, a six-hour-long piece.
Jonas and artist/composer Molly Sturges co-founded a non-profit in New Mexico named, Littleglobe, an arts and social justice organization, where Jonas currently acts as co-director. Also with Sturges, Jonas is the recipient of the 2008 United States Artists Award in music and media as a Simon Fellow. He is a winner of the 2012 Meet the Composer/Commissioning USA Award for his multi-media immersive installations titled, GARDEN.
Jonas attended Oberlin College where he played music but majored in art, earning his bachelor's degree in Art History/Art Studio in 1988, after which he moved to Oakland, CA to pursue a career in painting. In 1989, he met Anthony Braxton at Mills College, who would later become his lifelong collaborator.
In 1991, Jonas moved to New York, studying jazz at the New School for Social Research. Over the next decade he joined many projects there including those of William Parker, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, the Brooklyn Sax Quartet, and Butch Morris' conduction ensembles.
From 1992 to 1994, Jonas studied theory, harmony, and composition at Mannes School of Music with Robert Cuckson. During this time he became part of William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra from 1992 to 2001. In 1993, Jonas helped to found the New York Improvisors Collective (1994–95), which eventually became the Vision Festival.
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Chris Jonas
Chris Jonas (born September 3, 1966, in Newport Beach, California) is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based composer, conductor, soprano and tenor saxophone player, filmmaker, and video artist.
Jonas has performed, recorded, and toured around the world with many musicians including TILT Brass.., the Crossing Choir, Del Sol String Quartet, Butch Morris, Assif Tsahar, James Emery, Myra Melford, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton
Since 1997, Jonas has acted as a board member of the Tri-Centric Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to the ongoing work of Anthony Braxton, and is currently acting there as Vice President
In 2014, Jonas worked with Anthony Braxton in partnership with the Tri-Centric Foundation to create a projected video environment for Braxton's third major production of an opera, Trillium J (The Non-Unconfessionables), which premiered at Roulette, in Brooklyn, NY. For the 2015 Torino Jazz Festival and the 2019 Berlin Jazz Festival, Jonas served as a conductor for Braxton's 63-person orchestra project, Sonic Genome, a six-hour-long piece.
Jonas and artist/composer Molly Sturges co-founded a non-profit in New Mexico named, Littleglobe, an arts and social justice organization, where Jonas currently acts as co-director. Also with Sturges, Jonas is the recipient of the 2008 United States Artists Award in music and media as a Simon Fellow. He is a winner of the 2012 Meet the Composer/Commissioning USA Award for his multi-media immersive installations titled, GARDEN.
Jonas attended Oberlin College where he played music but majored in art, earning his bachelor's degree in Art History/Art Studio in 1988, after which he moved to Oakland, CA to pursue a career in painting. In 1989, he met Anthony Braxton at Mills College, who would later become his lifelong collaborator.
In 1991, Jonas moved to New York, studying jazz at the New School for Social Research. Over the next decade he joined many projects there including those of William Parker, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, the Brooklyn Sax Quartet, and Butch Morris' conduction ensembles.
From 1992 to 1994, Jonas studied theory, harmony, and composition at Mannes School of Music with Robert Cuckson. During this time he became part of William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra from 1992 to 2001. In 1993, Jonas helped to found the New York Improvisors Collective (1994–95), which eventually became the Vision Festival.
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