Jason Riley

As a versatile guitarist, Jason Riley's professional experience includes recording, composing, teaching and performing in multiple styles. His formal degree in classical guitar and commercial music included extended study in American styles, especially the Jazz idiom and improvisation.

As a recording artist, Jason has produced and released three solo CDs, Notes to Self (a compilation of original compositions) , Outtakes (original arrangements of traditional works) and Spirit of Things (traditional American spirituals). An equally successful and dedicated sideman, his playing has been featured extensively on many albums by other artists.

Jason has won competitions and reader's polls in both the rock and country genres and has opened for and performed with national and international artists. He has also made numerous radio and television appearances. When not on tour, Jason serves as adjunct professor of guitar at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS and Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph, MO. He has also served as co-director at the Festival Chartres - an international guitar festival in Chartres, France.

Jason lives with his wife, Jolie; daughter, Georgia; and son, Ben in St. Joseph, Missouri.