John Warthen Struble

John Warthen Struble is an American composer-pianist and writer. Born in 1952 in Washington, D.C, he began piano studies at the age of eight and composed his first work, "The Clown Prince of Wanderlust", a children’s musical theatre piece, when he was 15. That same year, he made his concert debut playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21,K. 467, with original cadenzas, with the San Bernardino (CA) Youth Symphony under conductor Gerald Christensen.
As an undergraduate at Indiana University, Struble studied with John Eaton, Bernhard Heiden and Juan Orrego-Salas, in addition to seminars with John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, George Crumb, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Donald Erb and others. His undergraduate thesis was a one-act opera, Pontifex (Op. 8), for mixed chorus, brass choir, timpani and organ, premiered under the composer’s direction at the cathedral of the San Bernardino/Riverside Roman Catholic Diocese.<ref name=website/>
His compositions range from serious piano sonatas to Broadway-stye-musicals, from to his 2006 Rhapsody for Piano and Jazz Band (Op. 46).<ref name=website/>
He is the author of several articles and reviews which have appeared in 'Musical America', 'Minnesota Composers Forum', American Music Teacher' and other journals, as well as the book The History of American Classical Music, published in 1995 by Facts on File (New York). In addition, his collection of 104 American folk songs, entitled Classic American Folk Music, arranged for piano with historical commentary by the author, was published in two volumes by Belwin Mills in 1996.
Struble currently resides in New Hampshire where he continues his work as a musician, author, and educator; working as an English teacher at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

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