Jared Redmond

Jared Redmond is a pianist, composer, and electronic musician from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently based in Berlin. In performance, he matches historical repertoire, especially underplayed masterworks, with contemporary experimental music. His repertoire stretches from music of the 16th through 21st centuries, and he has appeared as a piano soloist, composer, and improviser throughout North America, Europe, and East Asia. As a composer, Redmond’s works deal especially in literary and historical allusion, expressive microtonalism, and increasingly, music for the piano. He also develops experimental compositions and new notation systems for Korean traditional performers. 

Living in Seoul for nearly a decade, Redmond researched traditional Korean aristocratic music and notation, and performed extensively as part of ensemble Geori, which he co-founded and directed, and as pianist in free improvisation duo Beheaded. He also collaborated frequently on installation- performance projects of the IVAAIU City art and architecture collective. 

In 2025, Redmond released his solo piano album Scintillant, including music by Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Soler, and Pierre Boulez. Having trained under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli pupil Haggai Niv, he also performs in experimental extreme music collective Ehnahre (U.S.). 

Redmond holds degrees from Brandeis University (Ph.D., M.F.A.) and the University of California at Berkeley (B.A.), and has been a researcher at the Academy of Korean studies and the Kyujanggak Institute of Seoul National University. From 2018-20 he was visiting scholar-professor of composition and music theory at Hanyang University, and from 2020-24, he taught at the Seoul National University School of Music.