Music

Performances of John’s compositions and of John playing pieces by fellow musicians, as well as scores, may be found under the following subheadings/menu items :

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Recent Commissions; Performance Activities

  • 2019 Music Connects Us/Global Concert Exchange: Clime Climb, for traverso/flute soloist and community ensemble, premiered simultaneously in USA and Germany
  • 2019 Ensemble/Parallax; Tufts University: Nightingale SOS, for piccolo, viola, cello, and wooden bowls (percussion) [Berio Folksongs Response Project]
  • 2019 Shizuka Viola Duo: Tuppenny Pieces; April 2019 Premiere; Berklee College of Music
  • 2019 WordSong 10th Anniversary: Tyger (Twist the Sinews), for mezzo soprano and piano; Prelude Sensing Brightness (piano solo)
  • 2019 Work and Life: Recital Collaboration with Julia Cavallaro, mezzo soprano; Philipp Staeudlin, alto saxophone (February 3, 2019); Distler Hall, Tufts University
  • 2018 Tufts Youth Philharmonic (TYP): new work for youth orchestra (Some Recommended Routines)
  • 2017 Principal Keyboardist, Workshop for Boston Lyric Opera Production of Tod Machover’s  opera Schoenberg in Hollywood (November 26-29, 2017)
  • 2017 Rivers Conservatory: Second Sonata for Solo Violin;
  • 2016 Cello e Basso: Mediated, Monitored, for cello, contrabass, and piano;
  • 2015 Master Singers of Lexington: Uprights, for chorus and contrabass;
    2015 Cellist Rhonda Rider, Petrified Forest National Park Artist Residency: Two Passages, One Place; Returns, for solo cello;
  • 2014 Pianists Randall Hodgkinson and Lois Shapiro and Performance Artist Colin Gee: Kindling With Subsongs, for two pianos and movement performance; “Prequel” to Stravinsky Firebird arrangement for multiple pianos;
  • 2014/2013 Zodiac Trio: Trio About Smoking; Hillside Humoresque (Scorpio), for clarinet, violin, and piano; commissioned respectively for 2015-2016 USA Tour and November 2013 China Tour;
  • 2011 Firebird Ensemble/The Walden School/Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival/Meet The Composer: Seven Album Leaves, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano;
  • 2011 A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra: Gentle But Uneasy Dance Music, Suite for String Orchestra;
    2011 Bennington Chamber Music and Composers Conference: Deep Double Duet, for bassoon, cello, contrabass, and piano