Musician and composer John HC Thompson was named Artistic Director of the FiveOne Experimental Orchestra in 2009; it is a position he thoroughly enjoys. In addition to duties here, Mr. Thompson is also the most recent composer named to the staff of the Survair-AT production company and the live in-game organist for the Lake Erie Monsters. He is an assiduous educator, performer, and recording artist in Northeast Ohio. John holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition, as well as the adjunct degree in Jazz studies from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music (2000), and a Master’s of Music degree in Composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music (2008), where he was awarded the Donald Erb prize for composers. He is also an alumnus of the Brevard Music Center Festival and the June-in-Buffalo Festival of Contemporary Music.
