John Bilotta has spent most his life in the San Francisco Bay Area attending UC, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Music & Arts Institute where he studied composition, theory, and orchestration with Frederick Saunders. A recipient of multiple commissions, grants, and awards, John has seen his works performed around the world by such outstanding soloists and ensembles as Rarescale, the Kiev Philharmonic, Earplay, Chamber Mix, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the Talea Ensemble, the Avenue Winds, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Blue Grass Opera, Boston Metro Opera, and VocalWorks. In 2005, his "Concerto for Wind Quartet and Orchestra" was premiered by the Oakland Civic Orchestra under Martha Stoddard and was subsequently recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic. More recently, his short comic opera "Quantum Mechanic", with libretto by John F. McGrew, won the 2007 Opera-in-a-Month Competition and the 2010 AmericanaFestival Award with performances in California, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Boston. Over a dozen of John's chamber, orchestral, and keyboard works had been recorded and released on CD. His music appears on several recording labels including Capstone Records, Parma Recordings, New Music North, Vox Novus, ERMMedia, and Beauport Classical Music with distribution by Naxos. Since 2006, John has been Music Director of the San Francisco Chamber Wind Festival and the Midsummer Concert; and co-directs with Brian Bice and Davide Verotta the annual Festival of Contemporary Music. John is a member of the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, NACUSA, BMI, and the Society of Composers, Inc., for which he is the editor of SCION, the SCI's opportunities newsletter, and a member of the organization's Executive Committee. John serves on the Board of Directors for Goat Hall Productions and San Francisco Cabaret Opera.