Jason Victor Serinus' knowledge and enthusiasm speak to initiates and newcomers alike. His open-hearted love of music unites artists and audiences, breaking down the walls of exclusivity.

• Jason has penned CD reviews, music features, performance reviews, artist interviews, audiophile equipment reviews and features, editorials and opinion pieces, and/or critic's choices for Stereophile, Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity (hometheaterhifi.com), Opera News, Muso, American Record Guide, andante.com, San Francisco Classical Voice (sfcv.org), San Francisco Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Bay Area Reporter, East Bay Express, Gay City News, Preview Massachusetts, Preview Connecticut, Spirit of Change, Press Pass Q, The Absolute Sound (TAS), Early Music America, Massage Magazine, Advocate, Boston Bay Windows, Albuquerque Alibi, Hartford Advocate, Windy City Times, Colorado Springs Independent, Update San Diego, Baltimore Gay Paper, EXP Magazine, StereoTimes.com, New York Blade, Washington Blade, Southern Voice, Q-Notes, Dallas Voice, St. Louis Vital Voice, TWN, Chicago Free Press, Independent News, and the Seattle Weekly.

• He has also written articles for Houston Grand Opera and the New York Philharmonic (Playbill).

• Interviews with Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Elliot Fisk, Emanuel Ax, Matthias Goerne, Ian Bostridge, Tom Wopat, Nicholas McGegan, Terry Riley, John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, Lionheart, Thomas Hampson, Jake Heggie, Mark Adamo, Lou Harrison, Gerald Busby, David Daniels, Sarah Cahill, Joshua Bell, Mark Weigle, Michael Tilson Thomas, Ned Rorem, Awadagin Pratt, Susan Graham, Eugenia Zuckerman, Tokyo String Quartet, Klaus Heymann, Martin Swinger, Shirley Verrett, Hilary Hahn, Jonathan Biss, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Philippe Quint, Diane Schuur, Frederica von Stade, Rosa Passos, Marilyn Horne, and Nathan Gunn.

• CD Liner notes for Koch

To sample Jason's CD reviews, music interviews, and equipment reviews for Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, search the site's archives after clicking here.

To sample Jason's editorials and features for Stereophile, search the site's archives after clicking here. Jason especially recommends "How Many Hilary Hahns?", "Life, Love, and The Big Ahh", and Tribute to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

Other sites archiving Jason's reviews and articles include sfcv.org, operanews.com, ebar.com, gaycitynews.com, and spiritofchange.org. Search and ye shall find.

To read Jason's opinion pieces on the issue of same-sex marriage, click here

Jason is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.

Authorship

• Editor and major contributor to PSYCHOIMMUNITY & THE HEALING PROCESS; A Holistic Approach to Immunity & AIDS (Celestial Arts, First Edition 1986, Third Edition 1990, oop). Other contributors include Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, Jack Schwarz, Kevin Ryerson, Margo Adair, and Irene Smith

Other Writing Credits

• Holistic features and book reviews: Yoga Journal, Magical Blend, White Crane Journal, SF Sentinel, SF Bay Times and The Advocate

• Coordinator of the Bay Area Audiophile Society e-mail network as well as treasurer

• Editor and minutes taker for Oakland Community Policing Task Force.

• Former editor, Billy Times newsletter

Education

• BA, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. Independent scholar, cum laude graduate in American Studies
• Editing Classes, Media Alliance, San Francisco