John Musto is a composer and pianist who is well known as an accompanist to recital singers in the New York area and as a participant in chamber ensembles. He is a highly skilled pianist who has roots in jazz and in the great American show tunes and whose endeavors as a composer of serious music came rather late in his development. Musto's 2004 comic opera Volpone was widely praised and his 1997 song cycle Dove Sta Amore considered for a Pulitzer. Although Musto has established his reputation in vocal music, Koch's The ...
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John Musto is a composer and pianist who is well known as an accompanist to recital singers in the New York area and as a participant in chamber ensembles. He is a highly skilled pianist who has roots in jazz and in the great American show tunes and whose endeavors as a composer of serious music came rather late in his development. Musto's 2004 comic opera Volpone was widely praised and his 1997 song cycle Dove Sta Amore considered for a Pulitzer. Although Musto has established his reputation in vocal music, Koch's The Chamber Music of John Musto surveys his developing interest in chamber forms. Musto could hardly wish for a better advocate in the players in Music from Copland House, crack chamber musicians who are residents at Copland House, a retreat for composers located at Aaron Copland's former home in Cortlandt Manor, NY. If there is anything good in Musto's chamber music, this group will be certain to bring it to the fore.Musto's work does not reek of conservatory-bred academicism; he has stated...
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