Biography
Jared Redmond leads an active double life as a pianist and composer. In the former category, he has been finalist or semifinalist in events such as the International Russian Music Piano Competition, where he was awarded the prize for “Best Performance of Russian Music” in 2010, and in 2008 was named grand prize winner of the First Berkeley Piano Competition, receiving that event’s lavish award of a restored 1927 Steinway Model M. In 2009 he also appeared in the documentary “Miracle in a Box”, by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Korty.
Jared’s repertoire is diverse and includes much music of the traditional canon, as well as lesser-known works by composers from William Byrd to Henri Dutilleux. He has performed in venues across California, New York, New England, and Texas. His teachers of piano have included Martha Wasley and the Michelangeli pupil Haggai Niv, and he has remained active as a performer even while undertaking compositional studies. Additional educational experiences include master classes with Aki Takahashi, among others.
He has been educated at the University of California at Berkeley, Brandeis University, and in upstate New York where he was a private composition student of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky. Other teachers include Cindy Cox, Jorge Liderman, and David Rakowski, and he has received profound inspiration and counseling from Chou Wen-chung. His works have been performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers, the Lydian String Quartet, the Worn Chamber Ensemble and contrabassist Richard Worn, by members of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, and other Bay Area ensembles, and at Yale University by virtuoso percussionists Ji Hye Jung and Michael Zell, commissioners of Luminoso, for percussion duo.
Upcoming appearances include performances on Martha’s Vineyard, in San Antonio, Berkeley, and in Boston. Jared maintains a full schedule as a piano teacher, and makes his home in the Boston area. He is currently an Affiliated Artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Presidential Fellow at Brandeis University.
