Jason Belcher

Piano, Voice, Composition

Jason Belcher is a composer and improviser whose music is concerned with stylistic mobility and performer control. He is a member of the Vermont-based ensemble Brass Balagan. In recent years, he has worked with Arthur Brooks, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, John Zorn, and was involved in making Voyage in a White Building I, a 2013 music release by Burr Van Nostrand. He now teaches musicianship and history at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Ph. D in theory/composition in 2023.

Belcher attended the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Frank Carlberg, Robert Cogan, John Mallia, and Ruth Lepson. His solo and chamber pieces have been performed by Liz Pearse, Robert Frankenberry, Carrie Frey, Ensemble Linea, Loadbang, the Arditti Quartet, and the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra.