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Jack Parton studied composition at Peabody Conservatory under Jean Ivey, Robert Hall Lewis, and Chen Yi. Moving to New York City in 1999, Jack spent a year as Assistant Producer at Live From Lincoln Center before becoming Principal Orchestra Librarian for the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein for seven years. Besides composing, Jack sings bass and countertenor, performing professionally with such early music groups as the New York Collegium, Pomerium, Chicago Schola Antiqua, the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, and the New York Baroque Soloists. He also plays tuba with brass quintets, bands, occasional cabaret groups, and Dixieland ensembles. This diversity of musical background is reflected in his compositional output. He has written extensively for solo voice and choral forces; highlights include four Communion Services commissioned by Baltimore & New York Episcopal churches. His output also includes three commissioned string orchestra pieces: Two Concerti Grossi and the Mount Desert Island Suite. However, in the last ten years he has devoted most of his energy to chamber music, composing among other works three string quartets and sonatas for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, piano, and alto saxophone. While working at the American Symphony Orchestra Jack was the creator of a number of musical reconstructions and editions, notably rebuilding a complete working edition of the original version of the Chabrier opera Le Roi Malgré Lui from severly doctored materials and the original libretto, an urtext edition of Manuel Poncé’s violin concerto from Poncé’s manuscripts since published by PeerMusik Limited, a working score & parts of Bruno Walter’s First Symphony from Walter’s manuscripts, and from a badly damaged full score found in the Library of Congress a full working edition of Ferdinand Hiller’s magisterial oratorio Die Zerstörung Jerusalems. Jack has recently moved to Chicago for a change of urban pace and scenery, to increase his studio workspace at home, and to increase his performing and composing opportunities.

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Night Music	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2011	00:14:00	Night Music
Sonata for Flute and Piano	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2010	00:20:00	Sonata for Flute and Piano
Metamorphoses after Sadao Hasegawa	Orchestra	2010	00:11:00	Metamorphoses after Sadao Hasegawa
Concerto for Piano & Wind Ensemble	Band	2007	00:15:00	Concerto for Piano & Wind Ensemble
Cuban Dances	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2006	00:11:00	Cuban Dances
Two Songs from Gitanjali	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2004	06:00:00	Two Songs from Gitanjali
Concerto Grosso No. 2	Orchestra	2004	00:21:00	Concerto Grosso No. 2
String Quartet No. 3	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2003	00:27:00
Sonata for Piano No. 3	Keyboard	2003	00:15:00	Sonata for Piano No. 3
Communion Service for Boys' Voices	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2002	00:10:00	Communion Service for Boys' Voices
Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano No. 2 “Phæton”	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:11:00	Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano No. 2 “Phæton”
Mount Desert Island Suite	Orchestra	2001	00:20:00
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:11:00
Metamorphoses for String Quartet (Quartet No. 2)	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:18:00	Metamorphoses for String Quartet (Quartet No. 2)
Suite for Brass Sextet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1998	00:19:00
Sleeps Endymion, Perhaps to Dream	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:20:00
Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:18:00
Navigatio Brendennae	Orchestra	1995	00:16:00

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