ABSTRACT
JOHN F.LINK is active as a composer, teacher, musicologist, and bass player. His compositions for diverse media (including orchestra, chamber and jazz ensemble, rock band, and electroacoustic instruments) have won awards from ASCAP and Meet the Composer. He is also a founding member of the New York City composers’ collective, Friends & Enemies of New Music. Dr. Link’s writings on music theory and analysis have appeared in Da Beethoven a Boulez, Il pianoforte in ventidue saggi, translated by Antonietta Cerocchi Pozzi (Milan: Longanesi & C., 1994), in the American journal SONUS, and in the Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter. He has received fellowships from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, for his work on Elliott Carter’s sketches. Dr. Link is Assistant Professor of Music at William Paterson University, in Wayne, New Jersey, where he directs the Center for Electroacoustic Music.
