Jason Chavarría is the Director of Music Ministries at Plymouth Park United Methodist Church in Irving. He held a similar position at First United Methodist Church in Red Oak, Texas, and at First United Methodist in Elgin, Texas, where he was director of the Sanctuary Choir and the Elgin Community Choir. While in Red Oak, Jason was also the founder and conductor of the Ellis County Community Chorus, performing G.F. Handel’s Messiah and Theodore Dubois’ Seven Last Words.

Chavarría is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, earning a bachelor of arts in Engineering and a bachelor of arts in Music. While at Brown, he was named assistant conductor of the Brown University Wind Symphony, and music director and conductor of the Brown University Chamber Ensemble, performing works by Copland, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Debussy, and Wagner, in Providence, Boston, London, and Paris.

In 1996, Chavarría was awarded the opportunity to study orchestral conducting at the Tanglewood Institute of Music in Lennox, Massachusetts, studying privately with Richard Westerfield and attending master classes and rehearsals led by Seiji Ozawa, Robert Shaw, Ann Howard Jones, and Gustav Meier.

In May of 2004, Chavarría received his Master of Sacred Music, magna cum laude, from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, having studied with Dr. Timothy Seelig, David R. Davidson, and Dr. Alfred Calabrese. In May of 2005, he received a Master of Choral Conducting from the Meadows School of the Arts, also at SMU.