Jason began taking piano lessons at the age of five, shortly after his aunt Renée began. He learned from his excellent teacher, Mrs. Shirley Werling, well into high school. During high school, Jason took choir and band classes and met someone who would change his life: Mr. John Biller, band teacher, trumpet master, composer, and friend. Mr. Biller was the first person to challenge Jason to compose a musical piece. In the spring of the following year, Jason performed his first public performance of his song, Sonata in Db, at the request of Mr. Biller.

College life soon ensued, and Jason was forced to drop out of his private study of piano altogether. Surprisingly, this sparked his interest in piano as never before. It didn’t take long for him to realize exactly how much he missed the piano. It had become a part of him. During this period of his musical life, his compositions flourished!

Jason has composed nearly 800 musical compositions. Most are for solo piano, but many are for mixed ensembles, orchestra, and even choirs. Among his greatest achievements is his formulation of a set of equations which enable him to create non-repeating music indefinitely (or very nearly so by human standards). His first attempt yielded Opus 707 lasting 14 minutes. A next attempt produced Opus 716 lasting 23-1/2 hours long!

The equations held and the music proved non-repetative within the voices. Curious to test the limits of this discovery, he produced Opus 727, lasting over 1,025 years long!!! Still not satisfied, Jason began to produce exponentially longer and longer pieces. Eventually, he had to invent his own time-scales for the unbelievable lengths of the music created (by using standard scientific prefixes with the word “anon”). Thus, a million years is a Meganon. A billion is a Giganon. In increasing orders of 1,000, they are Teranon, Petanon, Exanon, Zettanon, and Yottanon.

However, his equations quickly surpassed current technology and he wasn’t able to feasably use standard musical notation software. His final attempt was completed on March 22, 2006 (1:42:56 pm) with Opus 732. Incidentally, this piece (if it were humanly possible to play it) would last over 93-1/2 billion years!!! (Scientists estimate the age of the universe to be between 10 to 20 billion years old!)

Jason is currently the resident pianist and accompanist for his church in Bakersfield, California, where he plays weekly for the worship music, the choir ensembles, and performs offertories every month.