John Anthony Lennon has been commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Theatre Chamber Players, the Library of Congress, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the National Endowment for the Arts Orchestral Consortium, the Fromm Foundation and many others. In addition to the Prix de Rome, Guggenheim, Friedheim and Charles Ives Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Lennon has been the recipient of numerous prizes, and has held fellowships at Tanglewood, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, the Camargo Foundation, Villa Montalvo, Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony as a Norlin Foundation Fellow.

Reared in Mill Valley, California, Lennon earned a liberal arts degree at the University of San Francisco, and has a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan where he studied with Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom.

Lennon is published by C.F. Peters, E.C. Schirmer, Dorn, Mel Bay, Michael Lorimer, Columbia University Press and the Oxford University Press. Recordings are with CRI, Bridge Records, Capstone, and Open Loop.

For further reference, please see:

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
edited by Stanley Sadie

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, s.v. Lennon, John Anthony

Symphonic Rhapsody (concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra)
dur. 20’
Published by C.F. Peters Corporation
Recording by MMC

Metapictures (for small orchestra)
dur. 15’
Published by E.C. Schirmer

Spectra (for large orchestra)
dur. 23’
Published by E.C. Schirmer

Voices (for string quartet)
dur. 13’
Published by C.F. Peter Corporation
Recorded on CRI #520, #599

Death Angel (for piano)
dur. 12’
Published by Galaxy Music/Columbia University Press
Recorded by Contemporary Record Society
Recorded by Society of Composers Series/Capstone Records #8606

Another’s Fandango (for solo guitar)
dur. 6’
Published by Mel Bay Publications
Recorded on Bridge Records #2001
Recorded on Mandala Records GMR 3193

Distances Within Me (for alto saxophone and piano
dur. 10’
Published by Dorn Publications
Recorded on CRI #459, #599
Recorded on Open Loop Records

Ghostfires (for mezzo-soprano and instruments)
dur. 16’
Published by American Composers Alliance
Recorded on Bridge Records #2004

Echolalia (for solo flute)
dur. 6’
Published by Oxford University Press and Dorn Publications
Recorded on CRI #599

Colors Where the Moon Never Could
dur. 10'
(for soprano, violin, viola, cello, celesta and percussion)
American Composers Alliance

Far From These Things (for chamber orchestra)
dur. 12’
Published by E.C. Schirmer

Seven Translations (soprano and instruments)
dur. 12'
Published by E.C. Schirmer
Recorded on CRI #599

Ballade Belliss’ (violin and piano)
dur. 10’
Recorded on CRI #599
Published with American Composers Alliance

Suite of Fables (for youth orchestra and narrator)
dur. 15’‘
Published by E.C. Schirmer

Zingari (concerto for guitar and orchestra)
dur. 20’
Published by E.C. Schirmer
Recordings on Bridge Records #9042

Sirens (for piano trio) dur. 8’
Published by C.F. Peters Corporation
Recorded on Bridge Records

Sonatina (solo guitar)
dur. 7’
Published by Roseanne Music (Lorimer Edition)
Recorded on Mushatweek Records MR200, Soepa

Spiderdance (clarinet and piano)
dur. 9’
Published by Dorn Publications
Recorded on Red Mark #9213

Gigolo (solo guitar)
dur. 3’
Michael Lorimer Publications
Recorded by Bridge Records #9083

cor prudentis (SATB Choir)
dur. 4’
Published by Scholar’s Press, Emory

aeterna (alto saxophone)
dur. 5’
Published by Dorn Publications
Recorded on Mark Custom Records
Recorded on Innova Records
Recorded on Teal Creek Records

Goliard's Banquet
Northeastern Music Publications, Inc.
dur. 6'

Serpent
Fatrock Ink Music Publishers
Recorded on Fatrock Ink

Ars ex Spiritu
Publishedd by Cherry Classics

cor prudentis
(arranged for brass and percussion)
Published by Cherry Classics

Soliloquy
Publishedd by Cherry Classics

Red Scimitar
Published by C.F.Peters Corp

As She Sings
(arranged for viol quartet)
Published by Ripmeister Publications

Five Pieces
(includes Thirteen)
Published by Michael Lorimer Publications

Let it Rain
Published by Marimba Productions, Inc.