Quinn Mason

Quinn Mason (b. 1996) is a composer and conductor based in Dallas, Texas. He previously served as the Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Classical Roots composer in residence—the youngest composer to fill that role—as well as the inaugural composer-in-residence for the Austin radio station KMFA.

His music has been performed and commissioned by over 180 renowned orchestras, including the San Francisco, National, Cincinnati, Detroit, Seattle, Utah, Dallas, Fort Worth, Vermont, Kansas City, Memphis and Amarillo symphonies, Minnesota Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Italy’s Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, UK’s Sheffield Philharmonic and numerous others. Recent performances have been also by the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, West of Scotland Schools Symphony Orchestra and Central Texas Philharmonic.

As a conductor, Quinn worked with Jukka Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marin Alsop, James Ross, Gerard Schwarz, Carl Topilow, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Christopher Zimmerman and served as assistant conductor at the PRISMA Music Festival. At age 27, he made his major orchestra debut conducting the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. He has also appeared as a guest conductor with many orchestras around the country, including the Houston Ballet Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, The Syracuse Orchestra, Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and more.

He has also won multiple awards from several organizations including ASCAP, American Composers Forum, International Clarinet Association, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and more.