JARRAD POWELL is a composer, performer, and teacher. He is professor emeritus of music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he taught composition, world music, gamelan, tuning and temperament, and other theory-related classes, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations with new media and dance. His compositions have been performed and broadcast internationally and include pieces for voice, gamelan, various western and non-western instruments, electro-acoustic music, music for theater, dance and experimental film. His work also includes numerous cross-cultural collaborations, particularly with Indonesian artists. Since the early 80’s he has directed the group Gamelan Pacifica, one of the most active and adventurous gamelan ensembles in the U.S. As Music Director and composer for Scott/Powell Performance he has created over 20 major works with choreographer and visual artist Mary Sheldon Scott. Other projects also include music for the innovative films of Robert Campbell, including their most recent collaboration An Ter Atamiso, and sound for the 64-minute video loop installation Waste Land, 2020 by photographer David. T. Hanson. Powell is the third-generation descended from Montana homesteaders and grew up on Absáalooke land in south-central Montana, former site of the Sundance Sea, an epeiric sea of the mesozoic era.