# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mason-bates
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:45:06.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mason-bates"
name: "Mason Bates"
slug: "mason-bates"
description: "Mason Wesley Bates is a Grammy award-winning American composer of symphonic music and DJ of electronic dance music. He is the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center, and he has also been in residence with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the California Symphony. In addition to his notable works Mothership, Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, he composed the score to Gus Van Sant's film The Sea of Trees. In a 2018 survey of American orchestras, he was rated the second-most performed living composer. On September 21, 2025, his opera The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay opened the Metropolitan Opera's 140th season."
tagline: "American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mason_Bates.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.425344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/masonbates"
    handle:    "masonbates"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7033665/"
    handle:    "nm7033665"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "3YwY9KSxS54K7cUQwifbmS"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ماسون بيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates"
    title: "Mason Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates"
    title: "Mason Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates"
    title: "Mason Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "میسون بیتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates"
    title: "Mason Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A1"
    title: "מייסון בייטס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Mason Bates"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump