Episode 25- Dana Reason

Summary: Today we are joined by Dana Reason. Reason is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music at Oregon State University, where she serves as Coordinator of Popular Music; Contemporary Music and Ecampus Music. Reason’s awards include a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant from Canada; and was a commissioned artist of the High Desert Museum/Oregon Cultural Grant. Reason studied composition with Alcides Lanza and John Rea at McGill University and with Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Curran at Mills College. She continued her development of improvised music forms with George E. Lewis and Anthony Davis, at the University of California, San Diego. As a performer, composer and improvising artist, she is documented on over 20 recordings. As a performer, she has toured and appeared at Frau Musica Nova, Banff Center for the Arts, The Stone (NYC), Stanford University, IF Festival, Improvisers Summit, High Zero 2020 Festival, Suoni Populo, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Spring Reverb, and Is that Jazz? Festival, ICASP, Guelph Jazz Festival, Western Front (B.C), and Improvisation Summit of Portland, as well as performed in Canada and Europe. Reason came to Oregon State University after being a teaching assistant at the University of California, San Diego and at Mills College, Oakland. You can find Dana on her website Danareason.com.