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Jason Nett

Jason Nett is a Canadian composer, producer, and guitarist born in New Westminster, British Columbia. He was the resident composer for the Vancouver Island Symphony. In 2022, Jason Nett's orchestral

Jason Nett is a Canadian composer, producer, and guitarist born in New Westminster, British Columbia. He was the resident composer for the Vancouver Island Symphony. In 2022, Jason Nett’s orchestral arrangement of composer Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite “Pictures at an Exhibition” created for VISO’s “The Pictures Project”, premiered at The Port Theatre in Nanaimo BC. He also works as a music producer and performs internationally. Jason Nett’s commissioned works are frequently performed in Vancouver’s “classical” community by orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs etc.(listed below). Nett fuses the classical styles of composers like Bach and Beethoven with influences from Rock and Jazz. Nett’s music integrates an emphasis on vibrant rhythm in many of his works. About his Vancouver Island commissioned work, Sonic Blue, Jason Nett says, “The piece is very up-tempo, very rhythmic, something you would find in blues-rock guitar today…” One of his largest works is the opera “Legends,” which was written for the Vancouver Island Symphony’s Youth and Education concert series. The show “tell s the story of the last 150 years on central Vancouver Island, including the contributions of First

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