New Mexico Jazz Composers Collective

Composers Collective

Bevan Manson is a composer, pianist, and arranger with one foot firmly planted in the jazz world and the other in the classical world. He is known for his concert and jazz compositions often featuring lyrical melodies, complex rhythmic ideas, and rich harmonies and orchestrations. His music has been placed in films and TV, and he has received composing and arranging commissions from Sierra Chamber Music, the Pacific Philharmonic Foundation, the San Francisco Symphony, First Night Boston, the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, the Wilder Trio and from many extraordinary individual musicians. 

Other works of his include scores for a number of independent films, a violin sonata, a woodwind quintet, a symphony, a string quartet, choral music with orchestra, and music for solo woodwinds. He is a founding member of the Improvisatory Minds composers group, which has premiered over 20 new American chamber music works

Bevan is a…