Jared
Lang
Pianist | Piano Teacher | Composer | Producer
Jared Lang
Jared Lang is a musician and music teacher based in Beijing, China. His bachelors degree focused mainly on jazz piano and music production (BTech Mus from TUT), and his masters degree on composition (MMus from Rhodes University).
Teacher
Jared is currently teaching music at HD Beijing Secondary School in China.
He taught all jazz ensembles and was an examiner for jazz solo and ensemble exams at Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology in 2011 (and continued to examine until 2015).
Jared also taught music privately for more than 10 years to many students of all ages and levels, in addition to teaching piano at King David High School and Crawford College, two of the best private schools in Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Jared has been teaching music to our 8 & 11 year old sons, with specific focus on piano and drums.
He has been their music teacher for the past two years, and under his guidance we have seen our children's musical ability flourish.
We have found Jared to be a very reliable and competent music teacher.
We would highly recommend Jared to any parent looking for a qualified and capable teacher."
K. & M. Moodley
Kyalami
October 2018
Jared lectured 8 subjects at TUT Department of Jazz and Popular Music (Advanced Harmony III, Film Music IV, Small Group Arranging IV, Big Band Arranging IV, Music Technology I and II, Songwriting III and Jingle Writing III). He was also the external examiner for the honours module of Music Technology at the University of Pretoria.
As part of the Keiskammahoek music outreach project, Jared also taught recorder, and all his pupils attained distinctions for their UNISA recorder exams (Grades 1 to 3).
Performer
As a performer, Jared has played many live gigs and recording sessions in many styles including jazz, classical, latin, funk, rock, pop, metal and many more, either on solo piano or keyboards, as a duo (accompanying a vocalist or instrumentalist), trio, quartet, quintet or sextet.
He currently performs a combination of his original compositions and jazz standards in The Jared Lang Band, with Tea Lončar (vocals), Dean Mongerio (sax), Liane Halton (guitar), Connor Chappelle (bass) and Guy Mabanza (drums).
Previous bands (in addition to solo work) include: Interstellar, PoetryxMusic, Mobius Loop Band (now known as Eco Groove), Breakfast on the Run (Pretoria, South Africa), Emalahleni Jazz Band, Highly Unlikely (with whom he performed at Woodstock 4), Psalm 87 (Grahamstown, South Africa), Sabine, Mish-L (with whom he performed at Klein Karoo Kunstefees), Sunmilk, The Lizzie Hibbert Band (London, UK), and Caffeine (Boston, USA).
He also completed a 7-month residency performing rock, pop, reggae and R&B covers with the bands Ruby Bamboo and The Mix at a 5-star hotel in the UAE.
Jared has played at many weddings and private events, as well as corporate functions such as Night of the Stars 2018 at Sandton City, the Rhodes University Golden Key function, Grahamstown City Hall Concert (part of the National Arts Festival), Morning Live (SABC 2), numerous public sector functions in Emalahleni, Nedbank team building functions, the Essential Hardware and Tool Trade Show at Nasrec, Starbucks Launch of Festive Drinks at Mall of Africa, and many others.
"Jared was extremely professional when I booked my wedding with him. He has a very big repertoire and even played a song we requested for me to walk down the aisle. It was definitely the perfect finish to our wedding day and all our guests could not stop talking about it."
A. Raath (Wedding)
Rand Club, Johannesburg
May 2019
"Thank you so much for a wonderful lunch time set Jared – I thought that you were spectacular! And thank you for playing my special song when we entered the tent!"
S. Somerville (Wedding)
Sandton
October 2018
"Jared was great, his set was exactly what the client was looking for."
C. Mentoor (Butter Knife PR)
Johannesburg
July 2017
Jared also studied commercial and contemporary music, and has worked professionally as a composer, arranger and producer; composing, arranging and producing music for film, installations, educational videos and corporate advertising, as well as backtracks and remixes.
You can download his album by clicking on "Download Album" in the player below:
Producer, Composer and Arranger