Updated November 2007

The Reverend Jason Shelton is a composer, arranger, conductor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, workshop and retreat leader and Director of Music at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, a position he has held since 1998. His compositions have been performed in churches and concert halls throughout North America, and his workshops for choirs, musicians and ministers are helping to redefine music ministry in the liberal religious tradition for the 21st century.

Read more about Jason and his music in the biography section.

NEWS:

November 2007 - The website has finally gotten some much-needed attention, especially in the "Works" section. Look for downloads of Sources scores in that section, as well as newly published works from Santa Barbara Music and Yelton Rhodes Music.

November 2007 - I am rehearsing the Nashville Chamber Orchestra's Gospel Choir for their upcoming Thanksgiving concert. I was also commissioned to write the choral arrangements for several of the pieces being performed - hits from Stevie Wonder's classic Songs in the Key of Life (1976). The concert is November 23 & 24 in Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Hall. More information and tickets at the NCO website.

January 23, 2008 - Collaboration workshop for the Chesapeake UU Ministers Chapter (DC Area). Leading worship with Rev's Paige Getty and John Crestwell.

February 22-24, 2008 - I will be preaching and offering a music program visioning workshop for the 2nd Unitarian Church in Chicago.

June 25, 2008 - Sources: A Unitarian Universalist Cantata will be performed at the Opening Ceremony of the Unitarian Universalist Association's General Assembly in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. A chorus of singers mostly drawn from the UU Musicians Network, who performed the work in August 2007, will sing under the direction of Dr. Jo-Michael Schiebe, Director of Choral Activities at the University of Miami.