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Jean Hasse was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1958, and graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory, Ohio, specialising in piano, conducting and instrumental music education; she then did graduate work and teaching at Cleveland State University. A varied career as a teacher, multi-instrumentalist, concert producer, music copyist, editor and publisher has included managing Margun Music (then owned by Gunther Schuller) and acting as the US and Canadian Representative for Faber Music Ltd. London, as well as forming her own publishing company, Visible Music, in 1987. She has received fellowships for composing residencies at the MacDowell Colony (NH) and the Millay Colony for the Arts (NY) and has received commissions from many solo performers and chamber ensembles in the US and UK.
As a music copyist, proofreader and editor Jean has worked for several publishing companies and for dozens of composers, including John Williams, Ornette Coleman and Paul McCartney. She moved to England in December 1994 and works as a composer, pianist, teacher and publisher. In September 2006 she completed an MA degree at Bristol University, focusing on Composing for Film and Television (MAFTV).
In 1999, Hasse produced a CD, kinkh, that includes much of her piano music, as well as Pulling (flutes) and After Earle (percussion).
In 2001, she began a three-year project of composing new ring tone melodies for mobile phones, beginning with the Internet company iobox, which led to appearances on television and radio.
Jean now composes for films, silent films, videos, websites and special events, along with new concert music pieces. She taught Acoustic Composition at the University of Bristol for three years and is now Course Tutor on the MAFTV Composition Course in the Department of Music.
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