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Composers BureauJohn H. AshtonBiography John Ashton is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at Carnegie-Mellon University, Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and West Virginia University. He is currently music director and conductor of the Fairmont University Community Symphony Orchestra, the Community Arts Orchestra at West Virginia University and the Aartistic Director of the Fairmont Chamber Orchestra Festival. He is semi-retired from Fairmont State University in West Virginia. He was for six seasons associate conductor of the Bedford Springs Festival Orchestra in Pennsylvania. He is a former member of the United States Naval Academy Band, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Telefis Eireann Symphony Orchestra (in Dublin, Ireland), and the New Orleans Philharmonic. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Ballet and Opera Theatre Orchestras, the Pittsburgh Symphony and was for fourteen years a member of the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Orchestra. He has served on the teaching staff of the University of Nebraska and Carnegie-Mellon University as well as at Fairmont and his compositions are published by Seesaw Music in New York. His works have been performed by the Bedford Chamber Players, the Pittsburgh Civic Symphony, the Carnegie Mellon University Band, the Baylor University Band, the Fairmont University Community Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and at numerous chamber music concerts throughout the United States and Europe. He is a member of ASCAP, and his orchestral work titled A Fairmont Overture was recorded in Bratislava, Slovakia by the Slovak Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Black in June of 1993. The recording was released as MMC 2025, MMC Orchestral Miniatures. Some of his works are to be found in the collections of the Carnegie Music Library in Pittsburgh, PA and in the Fleischer Collection of orchestral music, part of the Philadelphia Free Library. His biography is included in numerous volumes, including the International Who's Who in Music. Contact Information 359 Arbogast Lane |
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