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CROSSING STYLES,
PUSHING BOUNDARIES:
BECOMING A 21 sT CENTURY MUSICIAN

JOHN STEINMETZ

RECITAL HALL
Sunday, November 2, 2003 • 2:30 p.m.
ARIZONA S I ATE
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Crossing Styles, Pushing Boundaries
John Steinmetz is a freelance bassoonist in Los Angeles. He is the
principal for Los Angeles Opera and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, a member
of the chamber groups XTET and Camerata Pacifica, and he contributes bassoon
and contrabassoon sound to movie soundtracks. In summertime he plays at the
Oregon Bach Festival and the Skaneateles Festival (upstate New York) and
teaches at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music (New Hampshire). He has
made three tours of Spain with the Bill Douglas Group.
John's composition One and Many was commissioned for the Apple Hill
Chamber Players to perform with children and guest instrumentalists; since its
New York premiere, the piece has traveled to Harlem, Providence, Boston, Keene
(NH), Los Angeles, and London, and it was a focal point of the Chamber Players'
annual "Playing for Peace" tour of Middle East countries. His most recent
compositions are Simple Pleasures, commissioned for the 40' h anniversary of the
South Bay Chamber Series, and Concerto for bassoon and orchestra,
commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Keene Chamber
Orchestra, and the Santa Rosa Symphony.
John has helped to design new concert formats for the Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra, XTET, the Oregon Back Festival, and Pacific Classical
Winds. As an education consultant to computer and record companies, he has
written about old and new technologies for learning and expression. "What are
These Things Good For Anyway? (Computers in Elementary School)" was used
in national policy discussions. "Change and Creativity," co-authored with fellow
researchers at Apple Computer's Learning Concepts Group, considers a new
approach to learning. His article "Resuscitating Art Music," about the
predicament of concert music in America, has been widely reprinted. Naxos
records recently published his booklet "How to Enjoy a Live Concert."
John has been a keynote speaker at the National Conference on Piano
Pedagogy and the annual conference of Americans for the Arts, and a featured
speaker at Chamber Music America's national conference. Graduate students at
the University of Oklahoma instigated his weeklong residency titled "Enlivening
Live Music," and at Miami University of Ohio he spoke on "Music and
Peacemaking."
He is a board member of the Chamber Music America and the Pasadena
Waldorf School. John lives at El Ranchito de Nuestra Senora, Reina de Los
Altos Gastos, in Altadena, California, with his violinist wife, Kazi Pitelka, and
their two children.

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