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Jason Bahr (born 1972) is an American artist and composer living in southwest Florida.

Biography
Jason Bahr received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He completed his Master in Music at Kingston University in London, England. He finished his Doctor in Music from Indiana University, Bloomington. He studied with composers such as Claude Baker, Davis Dzubay, Samuel Adler, James Mobberley, Gerald Kemner, Kevin Jones, Don Freund and Eugene O’Brien.

Bahr has performed in over a dozen foreign nations, and in 35 states across the country ("Malletech - Jason Bahr"). Overall, he has more than three hundred performances of his works to his name. In the second international Frank Ticheli Composition Contest in 2009, he was one of the finalists for composing the band music for Anderson’s Animals. He has many other accolades to his name, including a Fromm Foundation commission in 2005, as well as a MacDowell Colony Residency in 2006. Bahr also won the Northridge Prize for the Orchestral Composition of Golgotha (Bahr) in 2005. He has also participated in the Renee B. Fischer Piano competition and won the third prize in 2003. He is also a Region V winner in the SCI/ASCAP competition, Annual ASCAP awards from 1998 onwards, and the 1999 Cambridge Madrigal Singers Choral Composition Competition (Bahr).

Commissions
Mysteries of Light (violin and piano) for the Fromm Foundation In principio (choir and orchestra) for the First Presbyterian Church of Bonita Springs, Florida Brevard Invocation (timpani and horn) for the Mountain Chamber Players Soliloquy (English horn) for Krista Riggs When We Are Going (treble choir, violin, and organ) for Theresa Spencer Strikes and Resonance (marimba) for Grant Braddock Tipping Point (alto sax and piano) for the Mississippi Music Teachers Association

Career
Bahr’s works have been showcased across the Midwest, and internationally in Europe. His flute quartet, Contrasts, was performed at the 1996 C. Buell Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music, where he appeared as a guest composer. Bahr’s Organ Solo, Meditation, and Fanfare premiered at the Third Annual CFAMC Conference in Bowling Green, Ohio. It was repeated as a part of the Bluffton University Bach Festivalin Bluffton,Ohio. The Sixth International Review of Contemporary Music, held in Belgrade, Serbia, featured Carlton, which is a Piano solo of Bahr’s, from Character Suite (Lopez). Apart from this, two other pieces from Character Suite made an appearance at the Pianissimo 98 Festival of Contemporary Piano Music in Sofia, Bulgaria in March 1998 (Oron). Another work of his, Lacerations, was a part of a book dealing with contemporary oboe techniques by Libby Van Cleve.

On April 2, 2017, his Symphony No.2 premiered at First Presbyterian Church of Bonita Springs. It was performed with soprano Karin White and tenor Blake Friedman, the City of Palms Youth Choir, and the Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers with the Mastersingers Festival Orchestra. Bahr is currently involved in an ongoing work which is an album of voice and piano solos for church services. It is being premiered on an ongoing basis in parts at the First Presbyterian Church of Bonita Springs, Florida. He is also working on a marimba solo which will be premiered later in 2018 by percussionist Jason Baker (Bahr). He is also involved in a project for the Gulf Coast Symphony and Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers which is set to premiere in 2020. Bahr is a member of ASCAP, SCI, and CFAMC.