Jeffrey Bowen, DMA — Faculty ; Adjunct Faculty, Performing Arts and Arts Leadership (Guitar) ; Department of Performing Arts and Arts Leadership , College of Arts & Sciences ; Areas of Expertise: Music Composition | Music Theory | Guitar .

Jeffrey Bowen is a composer, guitarist, and co-director of the Inverted Space Ensemble, which promotes new music in Seattle through concerts, commissions, and academic residencies. In addition to Inverted Space, he has performed with the Seattle Modern Orchestra, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Mandolin Orchestra (on their program "The Wheel"), and with the University of Washington Wind Ensemble as the soloist in James Bonney's electric guitar concerto, DARKlightNESS.

His compositional works feature gradually evolving processes and explorations of perceptual thresholds, and have been performed by Pascal Gallois, Maja Cerar, Beta Collide, the Seattle Modern Orchestra, and the Luminosity Orchestra, among other ensembles in the USA and Europe. He has recently presented his music at the University of Washington’s Harry Partch Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the International Computer Music Conference, the SEAMUS national conference, and as a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Recent projects have been supported by the Jack Straw Foundation and by Seattle’s 4Culture and Artist Trust organizations, and his work What Will Sound (was already sound), for violin and electronics, was released by Parma Records in 2020. His music has been recognized with a First Prize in the 30th International Composition Competition “Città di Barletta,” and with second prizes from the European Composer Competition in 2021 and from the American Prize in 2023.

Since joining the faculty at Seattle University in 2018, he has taught courses in the music theory sequence as well as composition-related courses in the UCOR 1300 series, in addition to private guitar lessons. He completed a D.M.A. in Composition at the University of Washington in 2015, where he studied principally with Joël-François Durand, and holds a B.A. in Guitar Performance and Composition from Stanford University.

Teaching Interests: Music Composition, Music Theory, Music Production, Global Music, Guitar and Guitar Pedagogy.