John Perry, distinguished artist and teacher, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at theEastman School of Music and was a student of Cecile Genhart. During those summers, he worked with the eminent Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued studies in Europe for four years where he worked with Wladyslav Kedra, Polish concert artist and professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, and Carlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of the piano department at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome.

Mr. Perry has won numerous awards including the highest prizes in both the Busoni and Viotti international piano competitions in Italy and special honors at the Marguerite Long International Competition in Paris. Since then he has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America to great critical acclaim. Also a respected chamber musician, Mr. Perry has collaborated with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world.

He also enjoys an international reputation as a teacher, presenting master classes throughout the world. He often is a jury member at some of the most prestigious international piano competitions. His students have been prize winners in most major competitions and include two first-prize winners in the Rubinstein, four first-prize winners in the Music Teacher’s National Association national competition, and first-prize winners in the Naumburg National Chopin competition, Beethoven Foundation competition, the Federated Music Clubs, and the YKA, AMSC, the Washington Friday Morning Musical, and YMF competitions, and finalists in the Chopin International in Warsaw, the Van Cliburn, the Queen Elisabeth, Leeds, Dublin, Busoni, Viotti, Leipzig Bach Competition, world competition in Cincinnatti and the Three Rivers Competition.

Mr. Perry is Professor of Piano at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, Professor of Piano at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, visiting artist teacher at The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. And frequent guest faculty at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada, the Idyllwild School of the Arts in Idyllwild, California, International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. During the summer he is an artist-teacher at the Aspen Music Festival and School, The Morningside Bridge Program at Mount Royal College in Calgary, centre d'art Orford in Quebec, the Sarasota Music Festival, Internationalen Klaviersommer in Bad Bertrich, Germany, Amalfi coast music & arts festival, Italy, Music Alp in Courchevel, France, the Pan-Pacific Summer Music Festival in Sydney, Australia as well as visiting faculty at other national and international music festivals. His recordings are available on the Telefunken, Musical Heritage Society, CBC, ACA and Fox labels.