John Perry, piano*

Perry is a piano professor at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has been a visiting artist at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and served as a faculty member at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, the Idyllwild School of the Arts in Idyllwild, Calif., the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Holland Music Sessions. He was dubbed honoree at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in 2004. Perry has been on the Sarasota Music Festival faculty since 1980.