About Mason McCool
Mason is a student at the University of Alabama receiving his B.M. in Music Composition and a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature with a concentration in French. For all of his life, Mason has believed that there is music all around him, causing him to start composing at a young age.
It wasn’t until he went to the University of Alabama that he realized the full of extent of his musical passions. He has studied under multiple composition professors such as Drs. Amir Zaheri, Tyler Bradley Walker, Thomas Robinson, and Professor Samantha Wolf. His piano studies have been conducted under Dr. Hannah Roberts. He joined the University of Alabama’s University Singers his sophomore year, sparking his love for choral music and choral music education.
Mason takes great compositional inspiration from the music of the Baroque era, Modernism, and twenty-first century new age composers. He has composed works for choirs, orchestra, solo piano, screendances, and he has arranged multiple songs for a cappella groups.
Mason currently resides in Northport, AL, where he manages being a student and being the owner of The Box, a functional fitness gym in Gordo, AL. He is also a frequent pianist for weddings and events around the southeastern United States.