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- Select Production Grants
- Select Compositions
- Select Recordings
- Publications
- Select Original Music For Films
- Major Performances as Leader
- Select Radio & TV Appearances
- Major Performances as Sideman
- Select Lecture...
- Panels
- Select Film Presentations
- Education
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SELECT COMMISSIONS
1998-2001
- The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown (chamber opera)
- Asia Society, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, Music from China
1997
- Peach Flower Landscape (dance)
- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
1996
- Immigrant of the Womb (chamber oratorio)
- Dance Theater Workshop, World Music Inst., Museum of Chinese in the Americas
- Flight of Whispers (chamber)
- Music for Homemade Instruments
1994
- Palm Facing the Eye (The Far East Side Band)
- Dance Theater Workshop
1988
- Reflective Resonance (video/dance/animation)
- Michael Yip
1985
- Fan Film (animation film)
- Richard Protovin
- Source (animation film)
- Franklin Backus
1984
- Battery Film (animation film)
- Franklin Backus, Richard Protovin
SELECT GRANTS AND AWARDS FOR COMPOSITION
2002
- New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship
2001
- Puffin Foundation
- Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program
2000
- Battery Film, music by Jason Kao Hwang, included in DVD set, Treasures from American Film Archives: Fifty Preserved Films
- National Film Preservation Foundation
1999
- Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
- Manhattan Community Arts Fund
1998-2000
- Meet the Composer/New Residencies, Round V
1997
- The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions
1995-1996
- New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1995
- National Endowment for the Arts, Opera/Musical Theater
- Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
1994
- New York State Council on the Arts
SELECT PRODUCTION GRANTS
2000
- The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund
1999
- New York Community Trust
- National Endowment for the Arts
SELECT COMPOSITIONS
2001
- The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown (chamber opera: sopr/mezz/bar.; picc/fl/a. fl., Bb cl/bs. cl., vib., perc., pipa, accordion, huqin, vcl)
1999
- Bending Duration, Breathing Distance (vib./accordion/erhu/vcl)
- An Ocean at this Moment (oratorio: bs bar.; dizi,bs. cl., tuba, vib., pipa, huqin, vcl)
1998
- Interior Migrations (erhu/vla/pipa/bs.cl.)
- Emanations (string quartet)
- We Are Your Children (children's song)
- I Believe (children's song)
- We Speak Two Languages (children's song)
1996
- Immigrant of the Womb (oratorio: sopr/ bari.; fl/sopr. sax/bs. cl., tuba, vib., perc., pipa, zheng, hp., vln, vla, vcl)
- Flight of Whispers (septet, Music for Homemade Instruments)
- Peach Flower Landscape (mixed choir, a cappella)
1995
- Urban Archaeology (The Far East Side Band)
- The Shadows' Play (The Far East Side Band)
- Distance Between Memories: Raw; Glass Movements; Gestures; In a Landscape; At Dusk (The Far East Side Band)
1994
- Palm Facing the Eye (The Far East Side Band)
- Caverns (The Far East Side Band)
- Palmistry (The Far East Side Band)
- Early Hour Vision (The Far East Side Band)
- Still Water, Movement, Memories and Ice (The Far East Side Band)
1990
- Journey of a Lonely Soul (solo violin)
- Mizu (vln/bs/perc.)
- Tsuzuriori (vln/bs/perc)
- Cloud Call (vln/bs/perc)
- Solitude (vln/bs/perc)
- Unfolding Stone (fl/marim./vibs./vln/bs)
1982
- No Name (Commitment)
- Grassy Hills, The Sun (Commitment)
SELECT RECORDINGS
1999
- eXchange: China, Composers Recordings, Inc.
1996
- Urban Archaeology, The Far East Side Band, Victo Records
1994
- Caverns, The Far East Side Band, New World Records
1990
- Unfolding Stone, Sound Aspects Records
1981
- Commitment, Flying Panda Records
PUBLICATIONS
1998
- article, Beijing China: A Chinese American Musician Searches for Home, Jazziz magazine, May, 1998
1997
- article, East/West/East, Many: Performance on 42nd Street, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris
SELECT ORIGINAL MUSIC FOR FILMS
2001
- Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today • Big Mouth Productions • Katie Chevigny
1998
- Tug of War, The Story of Taiwan • WGBH, PBS • Judith Vecchione
1997
- Kundun (source music w/ children, men's and mixed choirs; full orchestra) • Disney Productions • Martin Scorsese
- Born Under the Red Flag • Ambrica Productions, PBS • Sue Williams
1995
- The Women Outside • Third World Newsreel • J.T. Takagi
1993
- A Question of Color • PBS • Kathe Sandler
- All Men Are Created Equal • Claypoint Productions • Rene Tajima
1992
- Confessions of a Standup • John Canemaker
1991
- Homes Apart, Korea • Third World Newsreel • J.T. Takagi and Chris Choy
- Bali, Beyond the Postcard • Outside in July Productions
1989
- The Emperor's Eye, Art and Power in China • Alvin H. Perlmutter Productions
1984
- Battery Film • Franklin Backus, Richard Protovin
MAJOR PERFORMANCES AS COMPOSER/LEADER/VIOLINIST
The Far East Side Band
Sang Won Park (kayagum/ajang), Joe Daley (tuba/electronics), Satoshi Takeishi, Yukio Tsuji (percussion), Jason Kao Hwang (composer/violin/electronics)
2000
- Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1999
- Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, NYC
1998
- 3rd Annual Vision Festival, NYC
1997
- Beijing International Jazz Festival, Beijing, China
1996
- International Festival Musique Actuelle, Victoriaville, Canada
- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NYC
- Interpretations, Merkin Hall, NYC
1995
- Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen, Nickelsdorf, Austria
- Jazz Spektakel, Wuppertal, Germany
- World Music Institute, Washington Square Church, NYC
1994
- Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
1993
- du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival, Vancouver, Canada
- 9th Annual JazzFest International, British Columbia, Canada
COMMITMENT
Will Connell Jr. (flute/altos sax/bass clarinet), William Parker (string bass), Takeshi Zen Matsurua (percussion), Jason Kao Hwang (violin)
1983
- Kool Jazz Festival at Soundscape, NYC
- Jazzmarathon/Groningen Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Moers Festival, Moers, Germany
1981,1982
- Kool Jazz Festival at Soundscape, NYC
SELECT RADIO AND TELEVISON APPEARANCES
2002
- Asian America, with the creative team of The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown, host David Henry Hwang, WNYE/PBS, NYC
2000
- ConverAsians, host Dr. Yvonne Lau, cable cast, Chicago
- Morning Edition, with high school students, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, National Public Radio, NYC
MAJOR PERFORMANCES AS A VIOLINIST/SIDEMAN
2005
- Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana, Taipei International Arts Festival,Taiwan; Tondella Festival, Portugal
2000
- New Millennium/New Music, Duo with Dr. Makanda Ken McIntyre, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
1996
- Vladimir Tarasov Trio, tour of Vilnius, Lithuania; Moscow and Arkhengelsk, Russia
- Henry Threadgill's Society Situation Dance Band, Verona Jazz, Verona, Italy
1995
- Reggie Workman Ensemble, tour of Antwerp, Belgium and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Anthony Braxton Quintet, 5th International Akbank Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
1992
- Sin Cha Hong (w/Samul Nori), Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, South Korea
1990
- X-Communication, Munchner Big Band Meeting, Munich, Germany
1989
- Butch Morris Ensemble, 10th Anniversary of New Music America, Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival
1988-1991
- M Butterfly (Broadway drama), co-arranger/violinist, NYC run and national tour
SELECT LECTURE/TEACHING/WORKSHOPS
2002
- Memory, Instincts and Culture lecture, Brooklyn College
2001
- Compose Yourself
- Meet the Composer/Young Audiences, 8 week composition workshop at P.S. 110, Manhattan, NYC
2000
- Asian American Music adjunct professor, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University, NYC
1999
- Voices of Unity: The Music of Asian America
- 5 workshops; Asia Society's Annenberg program at P.S. 102, Queens, NYC
1998-1999
- Leader, Student Advisory Committee of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, NYC created newsletter and CD 1998
1998
- Evolutions Festival, improvisational music workshop for high school students, Montreal, Canada
PANELS
2002
- New World Records, Editorial Committee
- National Endowment for the Arts
1997
- The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals
SELECT FILM PRESENTATIONS
Afterbirth (b/w, 33 minutes), poetic documentary directed and edited by Jason Kao Hwang
1990
- Asian American Film Festival
Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
1989
- Festival International du Cinema Chinois de Montreal, Canada
1988
- Whitney Museum, New American Filmmakers Series, NYC
1987
- Taipei International Film Exhibition
1983
- Museum of Modern Art, What's Happening series, NYC
- WTTW/PBS , channel 11, Chicago
EDUCATION
1975-1979
- B.F. A., Department of Film and Television, New York University, NYC
