beethoven 2020

Jason Duckles, from Vancouver, Canada, leads an active life as a chamber musician and is a founding member of the Amelia Piano Trio, which has toured extensively in the United States and abroad. As a chamber musician, Jason has been presented with an ASCAP award (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) for adventurous programming and top prize in both the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the Munich ARD International Competition. Jason has performed as the solo cellist with the Mark Morris Dance group, and has toured with of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project in concerts from New York to Kazakhstan. Jason’s involvement in education has always been central part of his musical life — he has taught at several universities across the United States, and for six years he had the pleasure of being the conductor for the Eugene Youth Symphony in Eugene, Oregon.