Biographies

JOHN ALEXANDER BAVICCHI was born on April 25th, 1922, in Dedham, Massachusetts. After
studying Engineering and Administration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John moved
on to Civil Engineering at Cornell University. He received his Bachelor of Music from the New
England Conservatory of Music in 1952. Additional studies at Harvard University Graduate School
included Composition with Walter Piston; the History of Choral Literature with Archibald P. Davidson;
and Renaissance Choral Practice with musicologist Otto Gombosi.

John has composed over 110 works ranging from "Fantasia on Korean Folk Tunes" to “Festival
Symphony" to "Music For Mallets and Percussion” to "Five Madrigals" to one of his latest works,
"Fusions”, written for trombonist Phil Wilson and performed in February 1992 by the Hannover
Radio Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus commissioned
Mr. Bavicchi to compose "Talk to Me" which it premiered in March 1993.

Mr. Bavicchi is published by Oxford University Press, Neil A. Kjos, Ensemble Press, BKJ Press, and
Seesaw Music. He has been honored with awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, .
ASCAP, the American Symphony Orchestra League Recording Grant, and with commissions from

the Harvard Musical Association, the Cecilia Choral Society, the MIT Concert Band, the Boston Civic
Symphony, and the Welsh Arts Council. His works have been recorded by numerous companies

over the years and, most recently, in 1994 a CD, "Selected Works of John Bavicchi" was released.
Following various freelance teaching posts, he joined the faculty of Berklee College of Music in 1964
where he was made Professor Emeritus in 1997. He continued to work with students of composition
until his death on December 9, 2012.

JULIUS P. WILLIAMS is an internationally acclaimed award-winning composer and conductor.

He has conducted countless orchestras around the globe, as a composer he has performances by
major symphonies,opera companies, film and musical theater. he is also a recording artist,educator,
author and pianist. His career has taken him from his native New York to musical venues around the
globe, and has involved virtually every musical genre. He is presently Professor of Composition and
Conducting and co director of the Berklee International Composers Institute at the Berklee College
of Music in Boston, and Music Director and conductor of the Trilogy Opera company in New Jersey

Born in Tokyo, Japan, JUN TOGUCHI began studying piano, composition, and improvisation at early
age. His composition “Sonatine” for solo guitar was published when he was 14. Among his early
teachers were one of Japan’s leading composers, Akira Miyoshi, and internationally-known piano
and harpsichord player Michio Kobayashi.

Completing a Master of Music in 1995, from the New England Conservatory he went on to a
diploma in film scoring at Berklee College of Music. At Berklee, he met John Bavicchi and studied
Bartok's chamber music with him.

Mr, Toguchi has played numerous piano concertos with the orchestras in the Boston area and Japan
including his own jazz piano concerto. In June 2000, he gave a highly acclaimed New York debut
concert at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. He is featured on a CD of John Bavicchi’s music,
"Touch the Dark Strings".

His opera “The White Fox" has been performed in Ibaragi and Tokyo. This libretto was written by
Tenshin Okakura in the1910s. Okakura was a good friend of Isabella Gardner and he wrote the
libretto for the opening of Boston Opera House. The libretto lay unused, as the original composer
Charles Loeffler did not complete the commission, until Mr. Toguchi brought it to musical life nearly
90 years later.

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