Mason Bates, composer, disc jockey. Recipient Rome prize, American Academy Rome, 2004, Academy award in Music, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2007; fellow Tanglewood Music Center, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2008; Charles Ives fellow, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2002, Anna-Maria Kellen fellow, American Academy Berlin, 2005. Member of Young Concert Artists, Inc.
Background
Bates, Mason was born in 1977.
Education
Degrees in music composition and English literature, Juilliard School. Student, University California, Berkeley.
Career
Member Young Concert Artists, Inc., composer-in-residence, 2000—2002. Young American composer-in-residence California Symphony, since 2007. Music Alive resident Mobile Symphony.
Recipient Rome prize, American Academy Rome, 2004, Academy award in Music, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2007. Fellow Tanglewood Music Center, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2008. Charles Ives fellow, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2002, Anna-Maria Kellen fellow, American Academy Berlin, 2005.
Recipient Rome prize, American Academy Rome, 2004, Academy award in Music, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2007. Fellow Tanglewood Music Center, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2008. Charles Ives fellow, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2002, Anna-Maria Kellen fellow, American Academy Berlin, 2005.