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Biography
JOHN GRIMMETT (b. 1988) is a composer, writer, and director.
His work has been performed internationally by the Washington National Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Panoramic Voices, Nautilus Music Theater, and the Baltic Chamber Opera Theatre as well as at universities and conservatory training programs at the University of Houston, New York University, and Indiana University, among others.
Mr. Grimmett's mentors include Edward Albee, Jake Heggie, and David Ashley White. A graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, he also studied at the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University, where he was a recipient of the Max Dreyfus Scholarship from the ASCAP Foundation in recognition of his talent as a musical theatre composer.
Recent collaborations include Now, the second episode of the Star-Cross'd web opera series by Houston Grand Opera with composer Avner Dorman; a commission by the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra with Kleban Prize finalist Jason Carlson; Regrets Only, a song cycle for soprano Ann Moss and cellist Emil Miland; the libretto for Nothing in the Nothingness, a chamber opera with music by Daniel Zajicek; and the libretto for Finite Differences, a song cycle with Kenneth Froelich for soprano Ann Moss and the Hausmann Quartet.
His most recent play, My Friend, The Octopus, competed in the Texas UIL One Act Play Competition for high school students as a Regional Finalist and was recorded for a virtual premiere in May 2022.
Mr. Grimmett is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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