Joseph fennimore biography

Joseph Fennimore (born 16 April ) is an American composer, pianist and teacher best known for his works for piano and chamber ensembles, ranked by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Philip Kennicott as &#;one of this country&#;s finest composers.&#;  His music has been performed and broadcast worldwide and included in the Metropolitan Opera Studio and New York City Ballet repertories.

Fennimore was born in Manhattan and began formal music studies in upstate New York at the Schenectady Conservatory of Music, his principal teacher being its founder and director, Joseph G.

Derrick, graduate of the New England Conservatory in the piano class of Ethel Newcomb, Theodor Leschetizky&#;s first American assistant. In his twelfth year Fennimore was chosen to perform a piano concerto with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra at that city&#;s historic Proctor&#;s Theater. The first Fennimore compositions to be performed publicly were choral works presented in by the Scotia-Glenville Choralaires, Joseph J Fennimore, 86 - Trenton, NJ - Has Court or Arrest ...

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