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JOHN-MICHAEL ALBERT was born in Ohio, moved to Texas in his mid-teens, where he lived off-and-on for thirty years, then moved to New Hampshire on Groundhog Day, 1999. He received his Bachelors in Music from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and worked toward a Masters in Choral Conducting at the University of Houston. Also in Houston, he conducted a non-profit community men's chorus for 15 years, writing and arranging hundreds of pieces for them to perform at nearly 200 benefit events on the Texas Gulf Coast. His Holiday song, "A Season for Lovers," received one of the three prizes for new works for menšs chorus awarded at GALA International Festival IV in 1992 and has become part of the repertoire of nearly 100 community choruses throughout the world; and his arrangement of Fred Smallšs "Everything Possible" continues to be performed by community and church choruses throughout the United States and Canada. Approximately 25 of his compositions are published by Yelton Rhodes Music. After moving to the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire, he turned his creative focus on poetry, a life-long love. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, hosts the monthly Portsmouth Poetry Hoot , and attends and contributes to as many poetry events in the area as he can by foot or by bus. He has self-published three volumes of poetry in New Hampshire, Some Posthumous Thoughts of a New York Secretary, Poems 2000-2002, Texas Rose Rustlers, Poems 2003, and Boston Fruit Market, Poems 2004. BACK to STAFF PAGE |