Jason Cady is a composer of dramatic vocal works and experimental chamber music. His focus on the voice coincides with his interest in combining mediums. In his recent operas, he has set colloquial American vernacular, canned laughter, and Foley sound effects within the context of Baroque operatic forms to reveal the unexpected in the mundane. He balances his intuitive decisions with formalist procedures to discover novel material and give shape to the amorphous.

Cady has an M.A. from Wesleyan University, where he studied composition with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. His undergraduate degree is in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance from Arizona State University, where he studied composition with Richard Lerman and Harold Budd, in addition to training in visual art. He was born in 1974 in Flint, Michigan and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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