Jess Langston Turner

Jess Langston Turner was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1983, the son of Dan and Jamie Langston Turner, professors at Bob Jones University. He took piano lessons at age 8, and trumpet at age 11. He attended Bob Jones University, where he took bachelor's and master's degrees in trumpet performance. He then moved on to the University of Hartford, where he earned a master's in musical composition. In 2015 he completed a doctorate in composition from Indiana University.

• Fantasia on "Jefferson," for string orchestra and percussion • Memorial to Silent Voices, for five-part mixed choir and orchestra • Lacrimosa (attacca) • Kyrie • Lullaby "All Through the Night" • Lux Aeterna

• The King of Love My Shepherd Is (2007) • Through the Looking Glass (2008) • Like a River Glorious (2008) for French horn solo and wind band • Rumpelstilzchen (2009) • Spinning Straw into Gold • Night (The Maiden's Lament) • Rumpelstilzchen's Furiant (Moto Perpetuo) • Agua Nocturna (2010) • He Who Would Valiant Be (2010) • Lullaby "All Through the Night" from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2010) • Reanimations (2014) for two trumpets and wind band • Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2016) • Dancefares (2016)

• All This Night (2007) • Three Spirituals (2010) • Spirituals (2011) • Oft I did Marie (2015) • April is in my Misstriss' Face (2015) • Final Breaths (2015)

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2006), for alto and piano • I Carry Your Heart (2008), for soprano, flugelhorn, and piano

• Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (2005) • And Can It Be (2009) • Lacrimosa (2009), for five bayans (accordions) • Last Dance of Prospero (2009) for horn quartet • Paeans (2009) for brass quintet • Urban Etudes (2009) • Burning Music (2011) • Nocturne under a Red Moon (2013)