John King (composer)

John King (* 28. November 1953 in Minneapolis ) is an American composer , Gitatrist and violist .

King studied at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick , Leonard Stein , James Tenney and Stephen Mosko until 1976 . From 1985 he worked as a composer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) with John Cage until his death . From 1999 to 2003 he was the musicurator of the New York cultural house The Kitchen , from 2003 to 2012 he was co-director of the music committee of the MDCD and one of the company's four musicians alongside David Behrman , Takehisa Kosugi and Christian Wolff . From 1982 to 1997 he taught atLincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education , since 2003 he has been teaching music history at New York University , since 2012 composition and digital music at Dartmouth College .

In addition to chamber music, works for electronic music, ballet music and choral works, King also composed three operas: Herzstück / heartpiece based on a text by Heiner Müller (with Krzysztof Knittel ), premiered at the Warsaw Autumn in 1999 , la belle captive based on a text by Alain Robbe-Grillet , at the Teatro Colon, premiered in 2003 and Dice Thrown by Stephane Mallarme , premiered at the New York City Opera in 2008. as a composer, he worked with experimental musicians such as David Tudor , Gordon Mumma , Christian Wolff and Takehisa Kosugi together. In 2009 he was awarded the Alpert Awards in the Arts for music.

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SURNAME	King, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer, guitarist and violist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minneapolis