John Winsor, Composer

Modern Music Festival 2000 Film Scoring Prize. VMTA Commissioned Composer Awards (1992, 1994, 2005, 2012, 2017, 2019). ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Bronze Medalist (2003). Delius Vocal (1992) and Keyboard (1995) Awards. Grants from the American Music Center and Meet the Composer. iUniverse Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice awards (2004, 2005). JPF Classical Orchestral Album Award (2006). 20+ ASCAP Plus Awards. John Winsor (B.Mus., Heidelberg University; M.A., Kent State University) studied clarinet with Robert Marcellus of the Cleveland Orchestra and composition with John Rinehart and James Waters. He has taught music theory at the Armed Forces School of Music and at the Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA). He has also taught clarinet at GSA and Tidewater Community College (TCC). He is clarinetist and composer-in-residence of the Hardwick Chamber Ensemble and webmaster for the National Association of Composers/USA (NACUSA), the MusicLink Foundation, the Virginia Music Teachers Association (VMTA), and New York Women Composers, among others. He is the founder of NACUSA/Mid-Atlantic and a past chairman of NACUSA’s national board of directors. John's composition prizes include two Delius Awards, six VMTA Commissions, and the Modern Music Festival 2000 Film Scoring Competition prize, among others. He has received ASCAP awards almost every year since 1994 as well as grants from the American Music Center and from Meet the Composer, Inc. He is the author of Breaking the Sound Barrier: An Argument for Mainstream Literary Music, which received iUniverse Writer’s Showcase, Editor’s Choice, and Reader’s Choice awards and a Bronze Medal in ForeWord Magazine’s 2003 Book of the Year competition. John's Website (with PDFs and MP3s): https://www.john-winsor.com Hardwick Chamber Ensemble: https://www.hardwickchamberensemble.org

Virginia Beach, VA