Quinn Mason

Composer

Praised as "One of the most sought after young composers in the country"; (Texas Monthly) and “a
composer who clearly understands the orchestra and knows how to take advantage of its many varied
colors” (Tallahassee Democrat), composer and conductor Quinn Mason (b. 1996) has distinguished
himself as an artist of national and international renown. He previously served a successful tenure as
Artist in Residence of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra for the 2022-2023 season. He also served as the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Classical Roots composer in residence in 2022 (the youngest composer
appointed to that role) and as KMFA 89.5’s inaugural composer in residence.

His orchestral music has been commissioned and performed by over 180 professional, regional,
community and youth orchestras in the US and Europe, including the San Francisco Symphony,
Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony,
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of the United States and numerous
others, including Italy's Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, UK's Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra
and Scotland's West of Scotland Schools Symphony Orchestra.

As a conductor, Quinn made his major orchestra debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the
Kennedy Center at age 27. He studied conducting at the National Orchestral Institute with Marin
Alsop and James Ross, at the Eastern Music Festival with Gerard Schwarz, José-Luis Novo and Grant
Cooper and has also worked with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Carl Topilow and Miguel
Harth-Bedoya. Quinn has guest conducted numerous orchestras around the country, including the West
Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los
Angeles, Harmonia Orchestra, and the MusicaNova Orchestra. He was recently an assistant conductor at
the PRISMA Music Festival where he assisted Maestro Arthur Arnold and conducted Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5. He has also served as the Houston Ballet Orchestra's youngest ever guest conductor. 
His music has also received significant radio play. He served as KMFA 89.5's inaugural composer in
residence and has had his music broadcast on NPR in the US, CBC in Canada, BBC in London, ORF in
Vienna, RAI in Italy, in countries such as Switzerland, Hungary, Latvia, Israel and many others.
 
His chamber music has been presented by celebrated organizations such as Voices of
Change, Midsummer's Music, The Cliburn, One Found Sound, loadbang, MAKE trio, Atlantic Brass
Quintet, Axiom Brass, and the Cézanne, Julius, Invoke and Baumer string quartets.

A multiple prize winner in composition, he has received numerous awards and honors from such
organizations as the American Composers Forum, Voices of Change, Texas A&M University, ASCAP,
the Dallas Foundation, Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, National Flute Association, the Metropolitan
Youth Orchestra of New York, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Heartland Symphony Orchestra and
the Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra. In 2020, Quinn was honored by the Dallas Morning
News as a finalist for "Texan of the Year".