about
Jared Redmond is a pianist-composer from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently based in Berlin. In performance, he matches historical repertoire, especially underplayed masterworks, with contemporary experimental music. His repertoire stretches from music of the 16th through 21st centuries, and he has appeared as a piano soloist, composer, and improviser throughout North America, Europe, and East Asia.
As a composer, Jared’s works deal especially in literary and historical allusion, expressive microtonalism, and increasingly, music for the piano. He also develops experimental compositions and new notation systems for Korean traditional performers. Living in Seoul for nearly a decade, Jared researched traditional Korean aristocratic music and notation, and performed extensively as part of ensemble Geori, which he co-founded and directed, and as pianist in free improvisation duo Beheaded. He also collaborated frequently on installation-performance projects of the IVAAIU City art and architecture collective.
Recent and upcoming appearances include performances at the Korean Improvised Music Festival, Berkeley Piano Club, KM28 (Berlin), University of South Florida, Kagurane (Tokyo), Vallejo Symphony, University of California Santa Cruz, the Korean premiere of Stockhausen’s Kontakte in Seoul, and universities and contemporary music festivals throughout Korea and the United States. In Korea, he presented solo programs ranging from the Renaissance to the modern avant-garde as part of his “Wunderkammer” series, featuring underplayed repertoire unified by historical and aesthetic themes. One recent program, “Touch”, included works by C.P.E. Bach, Sebastian Claren, François Couperin, and Claude Debussy.
In 2025, Jared released his solo album Scintillant, including music by Scarlatti, Antonio Soler, and Pierre Boulez. Having trained under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli pupil Haggai Niv, he also performs in experimental extreme music collective Ehnahre (USA). Jared holds degrees from Brandeis University (Ph.D., M.F.A.) and the University of California at Berkeley (B.A.), and has been a researcher at the Academy of Korean studies and the Kyujanggak Institute of Seoul National University. From 2018-20 he was Visiting Scholar-Professor of Composition and Music Theory at Hanyang University, and from 2020-24 he taught at the Seoul National University School of Music.
(updated mid-2025)
Jared is an affiliate of InterMusic SF, a 501(c)(3) fiscal
sponsor through which you may help support his work.