Jason Michael Gerraughty (b. 1982) grew up playing brass instruments in community bands, drum and bugle corps, musical pits, and orchestras in small-town New England. These influences instilled a desire to create music of value to both amateur and seasoned listeners.  A central tenet of his work is combining innovative approaches to form, color, and texture with direct and intuitive musical frameworks. Gerraughty harvests new and peculiar blooms from his music’s roots in the classical tradition.

Gerraughty holds a PhD from Stony Brook University, but works outside of academia.  Composing, his true passion, occurs in the early morning hours before work each day. He lives in the desert outside Los Angeles, but misses the ocean every day.