Mason Bates

Mason Bates. Composer: The Sea of Trees. Named the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Mason Bates writes music that fuses orchestral writing, narrative forms, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno. His symphonic music has received widespread acceptance for its expanded palette of electronic sounds, and it is championed by conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Leonard Slatkin. He has become...