Biography

Rhythmic, colorful, and often quiet, almost to the point of silence, the music of Jon Paul Mayse explores memory, gesture, perception, and the expressive potentials of virtuosity. He has worked with many ensembles including Tabea Debus, Charlotte Barbour-Condini, CHROMA Ensemble, The Hermes Experiment, SoundEnergy, and Austin New Music Co-op. His works have been performed throughout the US and UK, at festivals such as SoundSCAPE Festival, Mixtur Festival,, Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival, Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance, VU!3 Symposium, AMOK Festival. He is the winner of the 2019 Luigi Nono Composition Prize.

Upcoming projects include works for Mark Padmore and members of the Britten Sinfonia, George Fu, and an immersive interactive installation with Subpatch.

Jon has also co-founded two electroacoustic ensembles: Live/Wire in Philadelphia and Subpatch in London. Subpatch creates surprising, novel, and human works harnessing the expressive potentials of gesture capture devices. Their work has ranged from works for phones to large, immersive, interactive installations and have been performed and exhibited in the Uk and the US. Live/Wire produced the American premiere of Zack Settel’s Pacamambo, as well as the world premiere of Carlos Johns-Davlia’s multimedia ballets and chamber music.

In addition to his composition work, Jon is active as an arts administrator. He has worked as a grant-writer for Zeitgeist, a project by conductor Toby Thatcher, as well as for Subpatch and his own projects. Outside of music, he has secured grants for Transformation to Recovery, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic in Philadelphia.

Jon holds a Bachelor’s in Music Composition from Temple University in Philadelphia and a Master’s of Music with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music in London.