John Arrigo-Nelson's music has been performed and broadcast throughout the United States and in Europe. Recent seasons have seen the premieres of solo and chamber works in Oviedo, Vienna, New York City, Boston, Fort Worth, and Miami. He has received numerous awards and recognition, including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Stony Brook University's Ackerman Prize, and Honorable Mention in both the ASCAP Morton Gould and Brian Israel Competitions. His music addresses ideas of timbral and temporal flexibility, and explores how contextual variation and fragmentation affect perception and function. John has studied at the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt with Olga Neuwirth, Isabel Mundry and Salvatore Sciarrino and holds a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, where his primary teachers were Daria Semegen and Sheila Silver. He is a composer member of the contemporary music group ALIA MUSICA Pittsburgh, and also serves as the ensemble's guitarist. John has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University South Bend, Suffolk County Community College, and Stony Brook University, teaching theory, musicianship, and composition.
