Jason Kao Hwang

Jason Kao Hwang 2008

Jason Kao Hwang (* 1957 in Waukegan , Illinois ) is an American jazz violinist (also viola , electronics), composer and music teacher.

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Jason Hwang has Chinese roots, but was not trained in traditional Chinese music , even though he heard it a lot at home. He started his career in the New York loft scene, u. a. in the Basement Workshop in New York's Chinatown. There he worked a. a. with Gerald Oshita , Fred Houn , Miya Masaoka , Francis Wong , Jon Jang and Mark Izu and merged jazz and new music with Chinese sounds. Hwang's role models included Henry Threadgill , Borah Bergman , Butch Morris , Reggie Workman and Ken McIntyre . From 1990 to 2004 he led the Far East Side Band , which also included Sang-Won Park , Joe Dailey , Satoshi Takeishi and Yukio Tsuji . The formation combined exotic instruments such as taiko and kayagûm with tuba and violin ; two albums appeared on Victor and New World . He wrote the 2001 Chinatown chamber opera The Floating Box: A Story and directed the Edge trio , in which he worked with Andrew Drury , Taylor Ho Bynum and Ken Filiano . Hwang also worked as a musician and arranger for the Broadway production M. Butterfly and was its musical director on the subsequent US tour.

As a composer, Hwang has received numerous grants, including a. by Meet the Composer and the National Endowment for the Arts ; he also taught Asian-American music at New York University and taught at Westminster and Brooklyn colleges. Hwang, who has worked with Anthony Braxton , Henry Threadgill, Ken McIntyre, Butch Morris, Reggie Workman , Vladimir Tarasov , Tatsu Aoki , William Parker , Sirone , William Hooker , Taylor Ho Bynum ( Enter the Plustet , 2016) and Pheeroan akLaff worked in the field of jazz between 1980 and 2011 with 62 recording sessions.

In 2012 he was awarded the critics poll in the category Rising Stars of the Down Beat ; 2013 nominated for the JJA Jazz Award of the Jazz Journalists Association .

Commitment 8 (1983), with Will Connell , William Parker
Unfolding Stone ( Sound Aspects , 1990), with Mark Dresser , JD Parran , Ned Rothenberg
Dominic Duval / Jason Kao Hwang: The Experiment (Blue Jackel Entertainment, 2000)
Jason Kao Hwang / Edge: Stories Before Within (Innova Recordings, 2007)
Jason Kao Hwang / Edge: Crossroads Unseen (Euonymus Records, 2011)
Jason Kao Hwang / Spontaneous River: Symphony of Souls (Mulatta, 2011)
Burning brudge (Innova, 2012), with Sun Li, Wang Guowei, Taylor Ho Bynum, Steve Swell , Joseph Daley , Andrew Drury
Sing House (2017), with Andrew Drury , Ken Filiano , Chris Forbes , Steve Swell
Blood (2019)
Karl Berger & Jason Kao Hwang: Conjure (2019)
Human Rites Trio (2020), with Andrew Drury, Ken Filiano

personal data
SURNAME	Hwang, Jason Kao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hwang, Jason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waukegan