Jason McCool trained as a composer at the Eastman School of Music with teachers including Michael Cain (jazz composition), Ralph Alessi (jazz composition), Fred Sturm (jazz/big band composition, film scoring & commercial arranging), the late/brilliant Ray Pickens (composer of "Mr. Potato Head" and "Transformers"), and Cary Ratcliff (orchestration), and has studied privately with Rodney Lister at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, and pianist Art Lande in Boulder, CO.
Everything else he figured out by guessing.
COMPOSITION PROJECTS
original music for the play Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread by David Ives, written for the final presentation of scenes for Joy Zinoman's directing seminar at Studio Theatre, Washington, DC
Song for Nancy & Joe; composed for the wedding of Nancy Simeone & Joe Gratton, 1997
Jason McCool, trumpet; Pat Henry, organ
recorded at Georgetown Lutheran Church, Washington, DC, Easter, 2009
let's from some loud, an experimental sound composition inspiried by ee cummings
composed for Joy Zinoman's directing class at Studio Theatre, Washington, DC
Jessica Phillippi, soprano; Jason McCool, voice & piano, Nov. 2008 (rehearsal recording)
Last Day of School, composed for 2007 Prince George's County "Making a Musical" Childrens' Theatre Camp
live recording with piano interlude; Jason McCool, piano
Stanzas for Music, based on a text by Lord Byron, composed as a Schubert lieder-inspired assignment for Dr. Daniel Harrison's Music Theory class, ca. 1994 (dig the cheesy MIDI recording!)
