John King is a composer, guitarist, and violist from New York. He received a B.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts and is an associate adjunct professor at the McGhee Division at New York University. He served as music curator at The Kitchen and was co-director of the Music Committee at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Kronos Quartet, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Ethel quartet, the New York City Ballet Diamond Project, Mannheim Ballet, and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo have all commissioned his works. King has written three operas, several string quartets, and numerous solo pieces. He is recipient of grants and residencies from FCA, The Bellagio Center Arts & Literary Arts, Grants to Artists, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Meet the Composer Commissioning Fund, MacDowell, and an Alpert Award in Arts for Music.
John King
Studios
Phi Beta
John King worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…