John King

JOHN KING, composer and guitarist, has presented his unique style of composed and improvisational music in many major festivals, including the Next Wave Festival (NY);Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival (Hamburg); Intermedium 1 Festival(Berlin); Creative Time's "Music in the Anchorage" series and the JVC Jazz Festival (NY); Victoriaville Music Festival (Canada); New Music Seminar (NY); Music Today (Tokyo); Warsaw Autumn; New Music America (LA and Miami); ISCM Festival (Frankfurt); and Bang On A Can (NY). He also presented his music with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, broadcast nationally on CBS.

He has had many working bands over the last 5 years including ELECTRIC WORLD (with Abe Speller and Jean Chaine), VIBROVERB (with Nioka Workman and Michael Wimberly), and KING KORTETTE (Jonathan Kane, Nicki Parrott and Christopher McIntyre), all blues/funk/jazz based. He plays lead guitar with the avant-blues group Deep Blue Sea, led by French avant-noise guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros and art rock drummer extraordinaire Jonathan Kane; and also performed with : William Parker's "Little Huey Creative Orchestra", Butch Morris' "Conduction #115 E-Mission"; Guy Klucevsek's "Ain't Nothin' But A Polka" band; and Rhys Chatham's 6-guitar band.

His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Bang On A Can All-Stars, the new string quartet ETHEL; the Royal Danish Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgarter Ballett, Ballets de Monte Carlo; Ballet Theatro Argentino; S¸dWestRundfunk (Baden-Baden), Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Kevin O'Day Dances, and Robert Kovich Dance Company; and a Beatles arrangement for the pianist Aki Takahashi. He has received grants from the NEA/Music in Motion, New York State Council on the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Meet The Composer/Readers Digest Dance Commissioning Program, Minnesota Composers Forum, the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals, and New York Foundation for the Arts. He is currently Music Curator at The Kitchen.

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