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Kathleen St.John

Kathleen Louise St.John (b. May 28, 1942), American composer of serious contemporary music, ranging from individual-solo pieces to expanded multi-media works, and symphonic compositions often including vocal or instrumental-soloists, stage-set and lights. Her sound has been termed 'expressionistic atonalism'.

Composer Kathleen St.John, born in California, presently lives in San Diego. She received her B.M.Degree in Music Composition from The Juilliard School in 1971 studying under Luciano Berio and Hugo Weisgall, with Piano studies under the renowned Russian-born pianist/teacher Ania Dorfmann. At that time, Ms.St.John also studied electronic music at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky, Bulent Arel and Alice Shields.

Ms.St.John has received numerous commissions from repertory companies, universities, and individual performers throughout this country and abroad. She was a Tanglewood Fellow studying under the British composer Alexander Goehr, a Guest Lecturer (twice!) at the University of Ottawa Department of Music, Composer-in-Residence at the American Dance Festival of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and at the Charles Ives Center in New Milford, Connecticut, and has received five Residency Fellowships from both the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center For The Creative Arts.