JOHN STEINMETZ is principal bassoonist of Los Angeles Opera and Los
Angeles Master Chorale, and a member of XTET and Camerata Pacifica.
He participates in the Oregon Bach Festival, the Apple Hill Summer
Festival (NH), and the Chamber Music Festival of the East
(Bennington, Vermont). His compositions have been commissioned by the
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the South Bay Chamber Music Society,
the Apple Hill Chamber Players, and Pacific Serenades. His Quintet
for winds has been released on CDs from Helicon and Crystal, and his
Etude No. 5 is on a disk from Albany Records.
As a consultant to Apple Computer, Disney Imagineering, and Naxos
Records, he collaborated on research into computers and learning, he
edited a collection of music for parents and teachers of elementary
school children, and he wrote on teaching methods, technologies of
learning and expression, and issues in music performance. His article
Resuscitating Art Music has been widely reprinted, and The Ear of
the Beholder appeared in the April 2006 issue of Chamber Music
magazine. He has given master classes, pre-concert lectures,
workshops, and speeches for arts conferences, music schools, boards
of directors, and summer festivals. More information at http://www.johnsteinmetz.org.
