Discipline: Music Composition

Kathleen St. John

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1973, 1976
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Kathleen St. John has received numerous commissions from repertory companies, universities, and individual performers throughout this country and abroad. She was a Tanglewood Fellow studying under the British composer Alexander Goehr, a guest lecturer (twice!) at the University of Ottawa Department of Music, composer-in-residence at the American Dance Festival of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and at the Charles Ives Center in New Milford, Connecticut, and has received five Fellowships from both MacDowell and the Virginia Center For The Creative Arts. In 1976, she was designated a Norlin Foundation Fellow by MacDowell in special tribute to Aaron Copland. St. John received her M.F.A. in music composition from California Institute of the Arts in 1979 where she was mentored by Mel Powell, was pianist for the CalArts Twentieth-Century Players Ensemble under the direction of Morton Subotnick, and was graduate assistant to pianist Leonid Hambro. Upon graduation, she became a member of their theory and piano faculty.

Studios

Veltin

Kathleen St. John worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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