John Anthony Lennon was reared in Mili Valley California. He studied at thè University of Michigan with Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom and has received many honors including the Prix de Rome; Guggenheim, Friedheim, and DAAD awards, as well as a Charles Ives Prize.
John Anthony Lennon has been commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Theatre Chamber Players, the Library of Congress, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the National Endowment for the Arts Orchestral Consortium, the Fromm Foundation and many others. In addition to the Rome Prize, Guggenheim, Friedheim and Charles Ives Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Lennon has been the recipient of numerous prizes, and has held fellowships at Tanglewood, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, the Camargo Foundation, Villa Montalvo, Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony as a Norlin Foundation Fellow.
Reared in Mill Valley, California, Lennon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature under Jesuit study at the University of San Francisco, and holds a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan where he studied with Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom and William Albright. 
Lennon is published by C.F. Peters Corporation, E.C. Schirmer, Dorn, Mel Bay, Michael Lorimer Editions, Columbia University Press and the Oxford University Press. Recordings are with Albany, Bridge Records, Capstone, and Parma among others.
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