John Bilotta has spent most his life in the San Francisco Bay Area where he studied composition with Frederick Saunders.
A recipient of commissions, grants, and awards, John has seen his works performed around the world by outstanding soloists and ensembles including Rarescale, the Kiev Philharmonic, Earplay, Chamber Mix, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the Talea Ensemble, the Avenue Winds, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Blue Grass Opera, Boston Metro Opera, and Vocal Works.
In 2005, his Concerto for Wind Quartet and Orchestra was premiered by the Oakland Civic Orchestra under Martha Stoddard and was subsequently recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic under Robert Ian Winstin.
More recently, his short comic opera Quantum Mechanic, with libretto by John F. McGrew, won the 2007 Opera-in-a-Month Competition subsequently receiving performances in California, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Massachusetts where it won an AmericanaFestival Award in 2010.
His next chamber opera, Trifles, based on the play by Susan Glaspell was premiered in Berkeley in June, 2010, at Goat Hall Productions' Fresh Voices Festival X. Partial and complete performances followed later that year and into 2011 in San Francisco, and at Cal State Fresno and the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Many of John's works have been released on CD. His music appears on several labels including Capstone Records, Parma Recordings, New Music North, Vox Novus, ERMMedia, and Beauport Classical Music with distribution through Naxos.
Since 2006, John has directed the Chamber Wind and Midsummer Concerts held each July in San Francisco; and co-directs with Brian Bice and Davide Verotta the annual Festival of Contemporary Music now in its ninth year. 
John is a member of the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, NACUSA, BMI, and the Society of Composers, Inc., for which he serves as editor of SCION, the SCI opportunity newsletter, and is a member of SCI's Executive Committee.
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