The music of Jeff Myers (b.1977) has been called “Striking…and harmonically rich” by the New York Times and “…brilliant and powerful…” by The Classical Voice of New England. He was recently hailed as a "gifted young composer" by New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini for the Fort Worth Opera staging of his opera Buried Alive. Myers' music has been played by many well known luminaries of the classical music world. His The Angry Birds of Kauai was commissioned, premiered and recorded by Grammy award winning violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Cory Smythe (see ‘In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores’ album). Other notable collaborators/commissioners include New York City Opera (Maren of Vardø at VOX 2011), Beth Morrison Projects, Orchestre National de Lorraine (after Escher), Ann Arbor Symphony (Liberation), New World Symphony (Roaring Fork), University of Michigan Symphonic Band (Organum-Tambura), Transit (Makassar Strait), JACK Quartet (dopamine and Requiem Aeternam), PRISM Quartet (Tidtu), pianist Ralph van Raat (Three Sketches), violinist Yuki Numata Resnick (Metamorphosis, Six Sketches and Kulintang Suite), pipa virtuoso Yang Jing (Turtle and Rat, from her ‘Elements’ album), hornist Laura Klock and tenor William Hite.

He has collaborated with librettist Royce Vavrek on two operas (The Hunger Art and Maren of Vardø) and librettist Quincy Long on a one-act opera (Buried Alive) for American Lyric Theater (premiered at Fargo-Moorhead Opera in 2014). Recent projects have been inspired by island themes. This project--"Book of Islands"--includes E---- (for loadbang ensemble), He mele no kane (for soprano Rachel Schutz and pianist Jon Korth), The Hula-Pa-ipu (for One Quiet Plunge), Wizard Island (for Music in the American Wild), the song cycle Islands of Death (for Duo Cortona), Escape (Gulf Coast Symphony), and new Jennifer de Guzman settings such as Boy for mezzo and piano and Advice to a Migraineure for vocal group Ekmeles (upcoming, notwithstanding Covid-19). Myers’ music has been played at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, Disney Concert Hall, Kimmel Center, Darmstadt, Het Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Bard College, Institute for Advanced Study, Le Poisson Rouge and many others at home and abroad. He has received awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, and ASCAP, as well as fellowships from the Yale Institute for Musical Theater, Aspen Festival, Tanglewood, Festival Acanthes, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, NYSCA, MetLife, Con Edison, Ivar Mikashoff Foundation, Meir Rimon Foundation, Puffin Foundation and The Fromm Foundation. He served as composition faculty at the University of Hawai‘i in 2011-2012. He holds degrees from San José State University, the Eastman School, and University of Michigan, where he studied with composers Brian Belet (SJSU), Allen Strange (SJSU), Daniel Wyman (SJSU), David Liptak (ESM), Daniel Godfrey (ESM), Martin Bresnick (ESM/Yale), Bright Sheng (UM), William Bolcom (UM), Betsy Jolas (UM), and Michael Daugherty (UM). He currently resides in New York City as a freelance composer and music engraver.