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John Kirkpatrick (18 March 1905 – 8 November 1991) was an American classical pianist and music scholar, best known for championing the works of Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Carl Ruggles, and Roy Harris. He gave the first complete public performance of Ives's Concord Sonata in 1939, which became a turning point in the composer's public ...
The Well-Tempered Accompanist. Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1949. Cranmer, Philip. The Technique of Accompaniment. London: Dennis Dobson, 1970. Dian Baker. “A Resource Manual for the Collaborative Pianist: Twenty Class Syllabi for Teaching Collaborative Piano Skills and an Annotated Bibliography.” DMA doc., Arizona State University, 2006.
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music , he is particularly noted for his operas , many of which center around historical events.
John Lessard (July 3, 1920 – January 11, 2003) was an American composer and music educator noted among peers for his eloquent and dramatic neo-classical works for piano and voice, chamber ensembles, and orchestra, as well as for his playful pieces for mixed percussion ensembles. He was also an accomplished pianist and conductor.
John Musto (born 1954) is an American composer and pianist. As a composer, he is active in opera, orchestral and chamber music , song, vocal ensemble , and solo piano works. As a pianist, he performs frequently as a soloist, alone and with orchestra, as a chamber musician, and with singers.
John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, (March 17, 1920 – April 29, 2013) [1] was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music [2] for his Piano Concerto No. 1 "In Time of War" (1958), which was premiered by Jorge Bolet.
John W. Downey (October 5, 1927 – December 14, 2004) was an American contemporary classical composer, conductor, pianist and educator. His works have been performed extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, South America , Australia , Africa , the Middle East, Israel , Asia , Mexico , and Canada , as well as throughout the United States .
John Josephus Hicks Jr. (December 21, 1941 – May 10, 2006) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was leader of more than 30 recordings and played as a sideman on more than 300. He was leader of more than 30 recordings and played as a sideman on more than 300.