About

Feel free to contact me about scores, collaborations, commissions, arrangements, copying, sauerkraut fermenting techniques and anything else at:

merzjp(at)gmail.com 

Bio

​JP Merz is a composer who works with classical, jazz, and rock musicians, as well as improvisers, dancers, electrical engineers, internet researchers, programming languages, and robots. His recent work explores intimate, emotion-driven, and kinesthetic experiences of sound. JP’s work has been performed by members of the JACK Quartet, Altius Quartet, Playground Ensemble, Iowa Center for New Music, and Colorado Music Festival Orchestra at places such as the Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison New Music Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE), the Abrons Arts Center, record stores, coffee shops and living rooms. In 2016, he received support from the American Composers Forum's JFund for New Music and interned with his favorite new music series, Liquid Music. In addition to composing, JP performs on electric viola, guitar, and electronics with an eclectic variety of groups ranging from new music/improv ensembles to folk-rock bands. This fall he is starting his DMA in composition at University of Southern California.

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