Gaston Gosselin, Massachusetts Commissioned Composer for 2025

MMTA is proud to announce the selection of Gaston Gosselin as the Massachusetts Composer of the year.  Gaston has composed pieces for solo, chamber and orchestral musicians.  For his Massachusetts commission, he will be working on a new quintet for piano and strings which will premiere at the Quad State Convention in New Hampshire in the Fall of 2025.

Gaston Gosselin (b. 1999) is an American composer whose music is a playful yet thoughtful exploration of outward joy and inner reflection. His work has been commissioned and performed by groups such as the Eureka Ensemble, South Florida Youth Symphony, Lès Art Nouveau Chalumeaux, as well as the University of Cincinnati Cello Society for the 2023 Ascent International Chamber Music Festival. Gaston's compositions have been recognized by the Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Molly Garrett & June Fooshee Collegiate Grant from the Music Club of Hollywood Florida, and Mu Phi Epsilon from whom he received the Ruth Dean Morris Scholarship, the Original Composition Award in Divisions I, II, and III, and as a finalist for the Morton Gould ASCAP Awards. He has been a fellow with notable festivals such as the Mostly Modern Festival (USA), Mostly Modern Festival (Netherlands), Lake George Music Festival, Iceberg Institute, and Cortona Sessions for New Music. Gaston resides in Boston, MA, where he works as the Executive Director of Beacon Ensemble. He holds a BM in Music Composition from the University of North Texas, where he studied with Sungji Hong, Kirstin Soriano, and Bruce Broughton.