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Jeff Myers writes music for acoustic instruments and voices. Though much of his work draws on an eclectic array of musical forms, all of his music has one thing in common: expressive intensity. Many of his works draw on preexisting musical works, styles and genres, as well as visual art and natural phenomena. Filipino kulintang music, works by M.C. Escher, overtone music and more recently, folk music and geographical narratives have been a source for inspiration. His operatic collaboration with writer and filmmaker Royce Vavrek yielded the one-act opera The Hunger Art, based on Kafka’s Hunger Artist and the Adam and Eve story. Currently Myers is working on a new opera with writer Quincy Long and the American Lyric Theater based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Upcoming premieres include a string quartet for the JACK Quartet and a trio for hornist Laura Klock.

His music has been played by members of the New World Symphony, Center City Opera, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Transit, Ann Arbor Symphony, University of Michigan Symphony Band, American Lyric Theater, L’Orchestre National de Lorraine, the American Composers Orchestra, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and the New York Youth Symphony. He has awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, as well as fellowships from the Aspen Festival, Tanglewood, Festival Acanthes, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and grants from institutions and private funds such as the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, Puffin Foundation, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust, and The Fromm Foundation. His music has been heard on the radio, the internet and in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Arsenal (Metz), Het Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Amsterdam), Miller Theater, Michigan Theater, Ethical Society (PA), The Stone, and the Tenri Cultural Institute to name a few. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. Jeff has studied with numerous composition teachers, including William Bolcom, Martin Bresnick, Michael Daugherty, Betsy Jolas, Bright Sheng, and Allen Strange. Jeff currently resides in New York City where he works as a freelance composer, orchestrator and copyist.