CONDUCTOR,
COMPOSER
Conductor, composer.
Jason Thomas Aylward is an engaging and dynamic conductor active throughout the United States. Jason has appeared in concert with the Idyllwild Arts Festival, Texas Festival Orchestra at the Round Top Festival Institute, the Twin Cities Orchestra at the 2017 NFA Conference, and in New York City with the CreArtBox ensemble. Additionally, he has held positions as Conductor and Artistic Director for Vintage Strings, Founder and Conductor Emeritus of the Chippewa River Chamber Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor for the Round Top Festival Institute, and Le Train Bleu. As an educator, he is currently the Director of Bands and Orchestra at Southeastern University, and previously held the position of Director of Performing Arts at Marion Military Institute. Jason has also worked with the orchestra, opera, theatre, band, and choral programs at Central Michigan University.
As a composer, Jason has composed for film, orchestras, wind ensembles, percussion ensembles, jazz ensembles, and brass chamber music. He's premiered works with the Texas Festival Orchestra, Fredericksburg Brass Festival, A-Stage Theatre in Minneapolis, the Fargo Monday Night Big Band, the CMU Symphony Orchestra, and CMU Chamber Singers. He won the 2016 CMU Orchestral composition competition with his work, "On The Shoulders of Running Water", and the 2017 CMU ACDA Choral composition competition with his work, "Memory, hither come".
Jason's primary conducting teachers are Ransom Wilson, José-Luis Maúrtua, Peter Haberman, and Scott Jones. He also studied jazz arranging with Allen Carter. He holds Masters Degrees in Orchestral Conducting and Trumpet from Central Michigan University, and a Bachelors degree in Trumpet Performance from Concordia College, in Moorhead. Jason is currently completing his DMA in trumpet at the Peabody Conservatory with Joe Burgstaller.
Jason is currently the Director of Bands and Orchestra and trumpet professor at Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL.
Symphonic
Repertoire
Adams- Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Bach (arr. Cailliet) - Little Fugue in G Minor
Bach (arr. Luck) - Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Barber - Adagio For Strings
Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
Berlioz - Hungarian March
Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Borodin - Polovtsian Dances
Borodin - Steppes of Central Asia
Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
Brahms- Hungarian Dance no. 6
Brahms - Symphony No. 2
Bresnick - My Twentieth Century
Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Bruckner - Symphony No. 4
Carter - Flute Concerto
Copland - Appalachian Spring
Copland - Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Dvorak – Symphony No. 8
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Elgar - Serenade for Strings
Gillingham - Forward Motion
Ginastera – Ollantay
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Grieg - Piano Concerto in A Minor
Harrison - Violin Concerto
Haydn - Trumpet Concerto
Holst – Ballet Suite in Eb major
Holst - Brook Green Suite
Hovland - Concerto for Piccolo and Strings
Hummel- Trumpet Concerto
Lutoslawski- Concerto for Oboe and Harp
Mahler - Symphony No. 4
Mendelssohn - Double Concerto for Violin and Piano
Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 3
Mozart - Magic Flute Overture
Mozart - Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 27
Mozart - Symphony No. 35
Mozart - Symphony No. 40
Musto- Divertimento
Nielsen - Flute Concerto
Price- Symphony No. 1
Revueltas – Sensemaya
Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture
Rimsky-Korsakov - Cappricio Espagnol
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Schubert - Rosamunde Overture
Schubert - Unfinished
Sibelius - Finlandia
Sibelius- Karelia Suite
Sibelius - Romance in C
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2
Sibelius - Symphony No. 5
Still- The American Scene No.2 - The Southwest
Strauss- Don Juan
Strauss- Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche
Strauss/Strauss- Pizzicato Polka
Stravinksy- A Soldier's Tale
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky- Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6
Tomasi - Concerto for Trumpet
Tower - Black Topaz
Tower - Made in America
Tower - Petrouchskates
Tower - Purple Rhapsody
Warlock - Capriol Suite
Wolf-Ferrari - Chamber Symphony in Bb
Operatic
Bach - BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in Alle Landen
Debussy - L'Enfant Prodigue
Puccini - Suor Angelica
Choral/Vocal
Jenkins - The Armed Man
Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart - Lacrimosa from Requiem
Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem
Music Theatre
Hamlisch - A Chorus Line
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma!
WATCH
Wolf-Ferrari Chamber Symphony, Round Top Festival Faculty Soloists
Danse, Debussy (Orch. Ravel), Round Top Festival Orchestra
Holst Ballet Suite in Eb, CMU Symphony Orchestra
Lutoslawski Double Concerto, Round Top Festival, Erin Hannigan and Paula Page, Soloists
Dvorak Serenade for Winds, Round Top Festival
Joan Tower, Petroushskates, Round Top Festival
Sibelius Romanze in C, CMU Symphony Orchestra
COMPOSITIONS
Hear some original works for various ensembles.
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SATB
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Jazz Trio, (Piano, Bass, Drums)
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