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John Link has composed for diverse media including orchestra, chamber and jazz ensembles, rock bands, and electroacoustic instruments. He received the 2006 Ionisation Commission for Silex Variations, a piano piece based on a print by the artist Willie Cole that was premiered by pianist Anthony de Mare. He has also received commissions from Flexible Music, the Irving Lippel Project, the Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music (for the Ames Piano Quartet), The High Mountain Symphony, and the Composers Guild of New Jersey, and awards from the Centre Acanthes, ASCAP, and Meet the Composer. His 1994 composition Shadow Traffic was hailed by the
New York Times as "an extended rhapsody, often lyrical in its
horizontal movement but hard-bitten in mood and color." Dr. Link is a
founding member of the composers group Friends &
Enemies of New Music which presents an annual series of new music
concerts in New York City, and sponsors an annual composition competition.
John Link's writings on music have appeared in books and journals in
England,
Italy, and the U.S. He has received fellowships from the Paul Sacher
Foundation
in Basel, Switzerland for his work on Elliott Carter's sketches, and his
Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research is published by Garland Press.
He is
also the co-editor with Nicholas Hopkins of Elliott Carter's Harmony
Book (New York: Carl Fischer, 2002). Dr. Link is Professor of
Music
at William Paterson University, where he directs the Center for
Electroacoustic
Music.
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