Jason Martineau is an award-winning composer, pianist, arranger, and instructor, and has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, and has composed numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo piano, and chorus, as well as a full-length musical, multiple film scores, and over 200 songs, both instrumental and vocal. Dr. Martineau has recorded over twenty albums in a wide variety of genres, and has also been featured on numerous other artists' recordings, as pianist, music director, and producer. He provides scores, arrangements, original compositions, soundtracks, sound design, accompaniment, private instruction, and musical direction for a diverse and eclectic client base. Dr. Martineau works in multiple capacities with many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to industrial, rock, pop, and classical. In 2007 he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton for her album "Heroes and Thieves." He has also authored a book on music theory released October 2008 entitled "The Elements of Music," published by Wooden Books and Bloomsbury, distributed both nationally and internationally. That book has since been translated into German, Czech, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese, and has been included in a larger, multi-author 6-book volume entitled "Quadrivium", which is available in English, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, Chinese, and Russian. His film scores have been featured in documentaries broadcast on PBS stations around the US since 1998. He also provides music cues and backgrounds for a large variety of multimedia projects. He has been playing the piano since the age of 5, and has been performing since 1989 at numerous venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and more recently, the 10th International Festival of Dance and Music in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2011 he joined the faculty at the Academy of Art University, teaching music notation, theory, composition, orchestration, and counterpoint. He has been a featured columnist for FSHN magazine since 2011, writing monthly articles on the subject of love. He also has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and was adjunct faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for the 2014-15 academic year. His second book for Wooden Books, entitled "Love: The Song of the Universe" was released worldwide on December 30th, 2014, now also available in Czech and Turkish.

Jason Martineau

Jason Martineau is an award-winning composer, pianist, arranger, and instructor, and has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, and has composed numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo piano, and chorus, as well as a full-length musical, multiple film scores, and over 200 songs, both instrumental and vocal. Dr. Martineau has recorded over twenty albums in a wide variety of genres, and has also been featured on numerous other artists' recordings, as pianist, music director, and producer. He provides scores, arrangements, original compositions, soundtracks, sound design, accompaniment, private instruction, and musical direction for a diverse and eclectic client base. Dr. Martineau works in multiple capacities with many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to industrial, rock, pop, and classical. In 2007 he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton for her album "Heroes and Thieves." He has also authored a book on music theory released October 2008 entitled "The Elements of Music," published by Wooden Books and Bloomsbury, distributed both nationally and internationally. That book has since been translated into German, Czech, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese, and has been included in a larger, multi-author 6-book volume entitled "Quadrivium", which is available in English, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, Chinese, and Russian. His film scores have been featured in documentaries broadcast on PBS stations around the US since 1998. He also provides music cues and backgrounds for a large variety of multimedia projects. He has been playing the piano since the age of 5, and has been performing since 1989 at numerous venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and more recently, the 10th International Festival of Dance and Music in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2011 he joined the faculty at the Academy of Art University, teaching music notation, theory, composition, orchestration, and counterpoint. He has been a featured columnist for FSHN magazine since 2011, writing monthly articles on the subject of love. He also has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and was adjunct faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for the 2014-15 academic year. His second book for Wooden Books, entitled "Love: The Song of the Universe" was released worldwide on December 30th, 2014, now also available in Czech and Turkish.

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Jason Martineau is an award-winning composer, pianist, arranger, and instructor, and has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, and has composed numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo piano, and chorus, as well as a full-length musical, multiple film scores, and over 200 songs, both instrumental and vocal. Dr. Martineau has recorded over twenty albums in a wide variety of genres, and has also been featured on numerous other artists’ recordings, as pianist, music director, and producer. He provides scores, arrangements, original compositions, soundtracks, sound design, accompaniment, private instruction, and musical direction for a diverse and eclectic client base.

Dr. Martineau works in multiple capacities with many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to industrial, rock, pop, and classical. In 2007 he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton for her album “Heroes and Thieves.” He has also authored a book on music theory released October 2008 entitled “The Elements of Music,” published by Wooden Books and Bloomsbury, distributed both nationally and internationally. That book has since been translated into German, Czech, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese, and has been included in a larger, multi-author 6-book volume entitled “Quadrivium”, which is available in English, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, Chinese, and Russian.

His film scores have been featured in documentaries broadcast on PBS stations around the US since 1998. He also provides music cues and backgrounds for a large variety of multimedia projects. He has been playing the piano since the age of 5, and has been performing since 1989 at numerous venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and more recently, the 10th International Festival of Dance and Music in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2011 he joined the faculty at the Academy of Art University, teaching music notation, theory, composition, orchestration, and counterpoint. He has been a featured columnist for FSHN magazine since 2011, writing monthly articles on the subject of love. He also has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and was adjunct faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for the 2014-15 academic year. His second book for Wooden Books, entitled “Love: The Song of the Universe” was released worldwide on December 30th, 2014, now also available in Czech and Turkish.

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English
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Work Experience

Faculty Instructor at Academy of Art University
February 1, 2011 - Present
Part-time faculty member of the Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media Department. Teach: Sibelius, Logic Pro, Arranging, Harmony I, II, III, IV, Advanced Harmony, Modal and Tonal Counterpoint, Orchestration I and II, Composition, Notation, Film Scoring History, Master's Thesis Advisement (student demo reels), and Pre-college Music Production. Created the syllabi for the onsite core curriculum undergraduate courses Counterpoint I and II, and the graduate course Art of Counterpoint. Built the undergraduate courses for both Counterpoint I and II for the department's online curriculum. Member of the Faculty Subcommittee 2020-2022.
Composer, Pianist, Author, Photographer, Artist at Martineau Arts
January 1, 1995 - Present
I offer a wide range of digital media services, A/V pre/post, multimedia music scoring, film scoring, audio editing, sound design, graphic design 2d and 3d, photography, video editing, light web design, text/copy/book editing, UI/UX consulting, and of course private lessons in: piano, theory, composition (most styles), performance coaching, score production, score editing, transcription/transposition, typesetting/engraving, also available as: accompanist, solo artist, producer, music director, bandleader, keyboardist, and in select cases I'm willing to tutor in applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sibelius, and Logic.
Adunct Faculty at San Francisco Conservatory of Music
July 31, 2014 - June 29, 2015
Adjunct faculty member of the Musicianship and Music Theory Department. Taught Modal and Tonal Counterpoint.

Education

Doctorate, Music Composition at Manhattan School of Music
September 1, 1993 - May 15, 1997
Thesis - the history of Western musical harmonic thought as a reflection of and parallel to the overtone series, illustrated by the orchestral composition "Evolution" with supporting paper.
Master, Music Composition at San Francisco Conservatory of Music
September 1, 1991 - May 15, 1993
Grade: Honors Activities and societies: Department Representative, Student Advisory Council '92-'93, Composers' Forum Leader, '93 Performed a recital of the piano music of Alexander Scriabin, illustrating his stylistic transformation. Advocated for the role of musical improvisation at a budget retreat in conjunction with the Board of Directors, during a week-long planning event for the eventual relocation of the school to its present site in downtown San Francisco. Created and led a weekly Composers' Forum, which resulted in a petitioned and credited change in the degree program for composers, which has been in place ever since.
Bachelor, Music Composition at University of South Florida
September 1, 1987 - May 15, 1991
Grade: Honors, Dean's List

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Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services
    paper TV pilot and public trailer "Marmousch: The Other Second Coming"

    Produced by Kiké Adedeji and Jake Jensen, 2018

    paper Short film "Substitute 101"

    Created by team HBIC Films for the 48-Hour Film Project, San Francisco, 2017.

    paper Short film "The Love Poem"

    Produced by Martineau Arts, 2015.

    paper Documentary "...and Rosemary is for Remembrance"

    Produced by Sounds Vision Media, 2016.