Austin White

Outreach Coordinator

Austin Jordan White is a composer and multi-instrumentalist artist from Tampa, currently based in Rochester. Much of his work is inspired by concepts of intersectionality, mathematics, neurodiversity, and social justice. He believes in community building with diverse representation through and for promotion of new music ensembles and living composers. As such, Austin has served as the previous president of the student organization Living Music at his alma mater Pennsylvania State University and is currently the Outreach Coordinator of Ossia New Music. His work has been premiered nationally and internationally, including at SoundSCAPE (Bobbio, Italy), ICEBERG institute (Vienna, Austria), Charlotte New Music Festival (Charlotte, North Carolina), and Longy’s Divergent Studio (Boston, Massachusetts). He is currently studying for his MA in Music Composition with Dr. Robert Morris and Dr. Mikel Kuehn at Eastman School of Music.