
Jessie Cox's Piano Trio
Contact: JessieCoxMusic@gmail.com
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Jessie Cox is a composer, drummer, educator and music theorist. He has written over 100 works for various musical ensembles including solo works, chamber- and orchestral works, works for jazz ensembles and choirs. As a performer he has played with musicians from all over the world including Maher Beauroy, Barbara LaFitte, Jeremie Jolo, Lucy Clifford, Alexander Levin, etc. He has been studying composition with Richard Carrick, Derek Hurst, Gabriele Vanoni, Andrew List, Marti Epstein, Manuel Kaufmann and Vuk Kulenovic, and Drums with Neal Smith, Tony “Thunder” Smith and Carlos Kort. Jessie has played at the Accra Jazz Festival and the Martinique Jazz Festival with the Maher Beauroy Trio, and won the Leroy Souther’s Award (2015) and the Bill Maloof Award (2017) for his compositions. He was a finalist in the international composition competition ALEA III with his piece Earth for two Bassoons, and two of his compositions have been selected to be featured regularly on the NPR WGBH. Jessie Cox graduated from the Berklee College of Music on scholarship in 2017, with a degree in composition.
Jessie Cox’s musical career began when he was only three years old. He took rhythm and solfège training at the music school of his hometown Biel/Bienne in Switzerland. At the age of six years his interest in percussion instruments started showing and he began taking Djembe lessons. This was also the time when he first started composing his own music. When he was twelve years old he started playing the Drumset in different cover
bands and he started taking lessons with the internationally acclaimed latin-music artist Carlos Kort.