Mason Bates

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mason Bates
Occupation	American Composer
Date Of Birth	Jan 23, 1977(1977-01-23)
Age	47
Birthplace	Richmond
Country	United States
Birth City	Virginia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Mason Bates Biography

Mason Bates is one of the most popular and richest American composer who was born on January 23, 1977 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Mason W. Bates (born on the 23rd of January 1977) is a Grammy award-winning American composer of symphonic orchestra as well as DJ for electronic dance music. He is the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and he has also been in residence with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the California Symphony. In addition to his well-known work Mothership, Anthology of Fantastic Zoology along with Steve Jobs: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs composer of the score for Gus van Sant’s feature film The Sea of Trees.

An ongoing collaboration between the San Francisco Symphony began with the premiere in 2009 of The B-Sides under Michael Tilson Thomas who then directed several Bates pieces with The YouTube Symphony. The premiere of Mothership which was performed at the Sydney Opera House in 2011 with an audience of two million and has since been regarded as one of the most performed orchestral works composed by composers living today. Thomas as well as his SFS have recorded 3 Bates compositions during the Beethoven & Bates Festival of 2017 and earned the Grammy(r) award for the Best Orchestral Performance. That same year also saw a nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for his Alternative Energy for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where Bates was named composer-in-residence from 2010-2015.

His first opera, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, was premiered in 2017 by the Santa Fe Opera, which added a performance to accommodate the high demand after selling out all seven performances. General Director Charles McKay announced that it was one of the best-selling new works in its history, and Santa Fe Opera’s recording on Pentatone Records went on to win the 2019 Grammy® for Best Opera Recording. Co-commissioners include San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, and Indiana University. In 2018, the Metropolitan Opera announced the commission of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, with music by Bates and libretto by Gene Sheer. The opera is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michel Chabon about a Jewish immigrant who writes comic books to make enough money to save his family from the Holocaust.

Bates has spoken about his symphonies as a revival of the narrative symphonies of the 19th Century using 21st Century sounds, as exhibited by his 2018 symphony Art of War. The piece “explores the drama of human conflict” using field recordings of mortar and artillery explosions made during two visits to Camp Pendleton, as well as recordings of the printing presses of the US Mint which appear in the work’s opening movement “Money as a weapons system”. Many Bates works do not include electronic sounds, such as Resurrexit which was premiered by Manfred Honneck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

He graduated in 2001. moved into his home in the Bay Area and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an PhD on composition, in the year

2008. He he was studying in the company of Edmund Campion while working as DJ for San Francisco clubs and lounges in San Francisco. DJing was his profession. led to the creation in the year 2000 of Mercury Soul, a San Francisco-based non-profit that puts on nightclub shows that combine classical music with DJ sets in bars. Residency at the American Academies in Rome and Berlin resulted in two years spent in Europe between 2003 and 2006, and his current residence is within the Burlingame Hills to the south of San Francisco.

Mason Bates Net Worth

Mason Bates is one of the richest American Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mason Bates 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1993, during the summer at the Brevard Music Center, Bates his music caught the eye to the conductor Robert Moody, who subsequently ordered his first symphonic piece Free Variations for Orchestra for his orchestra in Evansville, Indiana. Bates then enrolled in the Columbia University Juilliard School and received a BA in English literature as well as an MM at music composition. He was a music composer student alongside John Corigliano, David Del Tredici as well as Samuel Adler while also studying playwriting with Arnold Weinstein.

Bates displayed an interest from the beginning in the bridge between two worlds: electronic music and symphonic by presenting the Concerto for Synthesizer in 1999 with the Phoenix Symphony and subsequently performing it with the Atlanta Symphony. Robert Moody premiered that work along with Rusty Air at Carolina which is a tribute to the summertime atmosphere of the South that incorporates recordings of the field from the Carolinas. Moody gained national attention in 2007 when he premiered Liquid Interface, a water orchestra that was commissioned from the National Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin who performed the work and several Bates works , including violin Concerto in honor of Anna Akiko Meyers.

Film projects begin in 2015 with the score for Gus Van Sant’s movie The Sea of Trees, starring Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe. In November 2019, Vulcan Productions announced details about Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra, a 25’ multimedia work integrating film, animation and pre-recorded sound with a live orchestra. The work is a collaboration between Bates and director / sound designer Gary Rydstrom of Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound, and animator Jim Capobiano of Aerial Contrivance Workshop. Philharmonia Fantastique is a ‘guide to the orchestra’ with a script by Bates and Rydstrom, who directs the film, and an electro-acoustic symphonic score by Bates. It will be premiered in March and April 2020 by the Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony, followed by performances in the 2020-2021 season by the Dallas, Pittsburgh, and National Symphonies. Vulcan Productions, which is producing the film, will release it in theaters and on television in late 2020.

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Facts & Trivia

Mason Ranked on the list of most popular American composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mason Bates celebrates birthday on January 23 of every year.

What makes Mason Bates a unique composer?

Championed by legendary conductors from Riccardo Muti to Marin Alsop, his symphonic music is the first to receive widespread acceptance for its unique integration of electronic sounds , and he was named the second most- performed composer of his generation in a recent survey of American music.

How old is Mason Bates?

45 years (January 23, 1977)

When was Mason Bates born *?

January 23, 1977 (age 45 years)

Where is Mason Bates?

Mason is currently at work on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for the Metropolitan Opera with librettist Gene Scheer.

What was Felix Mendelssohn famous for?

Among his most famous works are Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1826), Italian Symphony (1833), a violin concerto (1844), two piano concerti (1831, 1837), the oratorio Elijah (1846), and several pieces of chamber music. He was a grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.