Discipline: Music Composition

Jean Hasse

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Henbury, Bristol, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988, 1990, 1998, 2001

Jean Hasse is an American composer. A varied career as a teacher, multi-instrumentalist, concert producer, music copyist, editor, and publisher has included managing Margun Music (then owned by Gunther Schuller) and acting as the U.S. and Canadian Representative for Faber Music Ltd. London, as well as forming her own publishing company, Visible Music, in 1987. While living in Boston, Jean was also a member of the popular music ensemble, The Composers in Red Sneakers. She has had several composing residency fellowships at MacDowell and the Millay Colony for the Arts, and has received commissions from many solo performers and chamber ensembles in the U.S. and UK. She moved to England in December 1994. Jean holds two degrees from the University of Bristol, an M.A. in composition for film and television (2006) and M.Mus. in original compositions for silent films (2016). From 2006-2015 she taught in the University of Bristol's Department of Music: acoustic composition (2006-2008) and as the course tutor for the M.A. in composition for film and television (2008-2015).

Studios

Veltin

Jean Hasse worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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