A composer of growing national and international reputation, John H. Wallace has studied with Lukas Foss, Charles Fussell, Alan Stout, Raymond Wilding-White and Darleen Cowles-Mitchell. He received his doctoral degree from Boston University (Composition), masters degree from Northwestern University (Composition) and bachelors degree from DePaul University (Composition/French Horn Performance). He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Music at Boston University. An active member of the Chicago Composers’ Consortium from 1996–2004, he chaired that organization from 1996-98. As chair, he was interviewed for the premiere edition of the American Music Center’s webzine, NewMusicBox. In addition to his current activities at Boston University, he has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DePaul University and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, and guest lectured at the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University, The Boston Conservatory and Middlesex Community College. Additionally, he served as the Business Manager of the DePaul University School of Music for eight years. A recent article, “Motivic Integration in Part One of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony,” has been accepted for publication in a joint Russian/American book co-edited by Marina Kornakova of the Russian Institute of the History of Arts, St. Petersburg, and Jeremy Yudkin of Boston University. His music has been performed around the country, including at the Tanglewood Institute, New Music DePaul and the Chautauqua Summer Music Festival, working with groups such as the Chicago Clarinet Trio, Riverway Trio, Pinotage and the Chicago Chamber Music Collective, and singers such as Penelope Bitzas, Krista River and Gary Durham. In Europe, his Piano Quintet (1991) received three performances in Lithuania in January, 2000, by the renown Vilnius String Quartet and Lithuanian-American pianist, Rokas Zubovas, on a series of concerts which included the Lithuanian premieres of works by both Anton Webern and Frank Martin. His Symphonia for large orchestra was one of three works selected for the Chicago Civic Orchestra’s 1990 Illinois Composer’s Reading Sessions, coordinated by then Chicago Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence, John Corigliano, and conducted by Michael Morgan. As a horn player, he has performed with various ensembles, including the Park Forest Orchestra, Waukegan Symphony, Lake Shore Brass Quintet, Bristol Renaissance Faire, and Disney’s All-American College Marching Band. Additional notable performances include the first inauguration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, and performances for Illinois Governor James R. Thompson and President Ronald Reagan.