James Barry

James Barry composes music drawn from a unique amalgam of high and low art. Early influences include playing in and writing songs for metal, rock, and punk bands followed by rigorous academic compositional training. The end product is an immediate, intelligent, colorful, original, dramatic brand of contemporary music. His music has been the recipient of numerous awards and performances including: the 2001 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, Meet The Composer, the SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission, the American Music Center, The Commission Project (Rochester, NY), the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Society for New Music (Syracuse, NY), the Chicago Ensemble (Chicago, IL), the Auros Group for New Music (Boston, MA), the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco, CA), the Sirius String Quartet (NYC), the Reizen Ensemble (NYC), the Esterhazy Quartet, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra's Fresh Ink, the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the Sacramento Youth Symphony among others. James is co-artistic director and managing director of the New York City based new music group Forecast Music.