Hailed as ‘exhilarating’ by Gramophone Magazine and praised for its ‘technical bravado’ by the San Francisco Chronicle, Jesse Limbacher’s music has been performed by ensembles such as the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Fifth House Ensemble, and the Purchase Symphony, has been programed by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Ravinia Festival, and can be heard on Cedille Records. Recent projects include an adaptation of Reinhold Gliere’s Third Symphony, choreographed by Lar Lubovitch, commissioned by the Mikhailovsky Ballet Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia; You’ve Seen This Film for two violins, recorded at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute by Kayla Moffatt and Eunice Kim; and three new works as part of garden—pleasure, a gallery installation commissioned by the Yale School of Architecture.

Jesse’s current projects involve explorations of timbre and visual media and include Some Things Erased for piano and video, Trace for cello and projection mapping, the browser-based work buytickets.theater, and scream/tunnel for four piccolos.

Among Jesse’s awards are the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Donald Erb prize from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the John Day Jackson Prize from the Yale School of Music, from which he graduated in 2015. His teachers have included Martin Bresnick, Keith Fitch, Aaron Kernis, David Lang, and David Rakowski. He lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.