Jonathan Benjamin Myers 205 Seaview Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062 [email protected] | 617-650-3307 Education 2016— University of California at Santa Cruz D.M.A. in Music Composition

2012—2014 M.A. in Music Composition

2007—2011 Wesleyan University B.A. with High Honors in Music Honors 2016-17 Regents Fellowship, University of California at Santa Cruz 2015 Orkest de Ereprijs: Young Meeting Finalist [Netherlands] for Flocking

2013 Performing Indonesia: Conference/Festival of Music, Dance, and Drama Diffusion premiered at Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

2013 Now Hear Ensemble [Santa Barbara] Made in California project Mobile commissioned for performance and recording

2011 Gwen Livingston Pokora Prize, Wesleyan University awarded to the outstanding undergraduate in music composition Selected Professional Experience 2018 Instructor of Record for History, Literature, and Technology of ; Workshop in Electronic Music. 2017-2018 Teaching Assistant for Laptop Music, Electronic Music; Music of the Beatles; Artificial Intelligence in Music; Advanced Music Theory; History of Rap and Hip Hop; Laptop Music; Psychophysics of Music; at UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 2016 Administrator / Coordinator for the S.E.M. Ensemble, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Stage Manager for Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, CA Major Teachers Composition with (UCSC), David Dunn (UCSC), (Mills), James Fei (Mills), (Mills), Anthony Braxton (Wesleyan), (Wesleyan).

Performance with (improvisation), William Winant (percussion), Pheeroan AkLaff (percussion), Tyshawn Sorey (percussion), Abraham Adzenyah (West African drumming), I.M. Harjito (Javanese Gamelan)

Masterclass/workshop participation with , Martijn Padding, George Lewis, Nicolas Collins, , Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman.