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John Pozdro (John Walter Pozdro) was born on 14 August, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is a John Walter Pozdro was composer and pedagogue composer and pedagogue. Discover John Pozdro's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As John Walter Pozdro
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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 14 August, 1923
Birthday 14 August
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 2009
Died Place Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1923

John Walter Pozdro (August 14, 1923 – January 1, 2009) was an American composer and pedagogue.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians describes his music as “inherently pragmatic, with tertian torsion resulting in the formation of tastefully enriched triadic harmony, and with asymmetric rhythms enhancing the throbbing pulse of musical continuity.”

Pozdro was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1923 of Polish and German descent.

He began taking piano and music theory lessons at an early age with Nina Shafran.

He then studied piano and music theory with Edward Joseph Collins at the American Conservatory of Music.

After service in the Military Intelligence Division of the U.S. Army, he entered Northwestern University.

1948

There, he studied with Robert Mills Delaney and received his Bachelor of Music in 1948 and Master of Music in 1949.

1949

Pozdro had his first teaching position at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls from 1949 to 1950.

He was also a visiting professor at Northwestern University and a teaching fellow at the Eastman School of Music.

1950

From 1950 to December 1992, he was a faculty member of the University of Kansas.

1958

He later studied at the Eastman School of Music with Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers, and Wayne Barlow earning his Ph.D. in Composition in 1958.

He also served as the chairman of the annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music from 1958 to 1967.

He was commissioned by the Ford Foundation, the Oklahoma City Symphony, the Music Teachers National Association, Concerts for Young Audiences, the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Stanton Memorial Foundation, and The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.

He has had articles published in American Music Teacher, The Composer, and College Music Symposium, among others.

His article in American Music Teacher on the nature of nonfunctional tertian harmonic progression was the first such on the subject.

1961

He served as their Department Chairman of Theory and Composition from 1961 to 1988.

Pozdro received the Bernard Fink Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching in 1961, and he was selected as one of Kansas University’s outstanding teachers in 1970.

1976

He was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1976, a citation from the American Council of Polish Cultural Arts in 1978, and awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for achievement in the field of serious music annually from 1965 until 2003.

His Third Symphony was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

1993

In 1993 he served as the guest composer at the University of California at Berkeley where he was presented with the University of California-Berkeley Medal.

He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.