John Perry, distinguished artist and teacher, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Eastman School of Music and was a student of Cecile Genhart. During those summers, he worked with the eminent Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued his studies in Europe for four years where he worked with Wladyslaw Kedra, Polish concert artist and professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, and Carlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of the piano department at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Mr. Perry has won numerous awards including the highest prizes in both the Busoni and Viotti international piano competitions in Italy and special honors at the Marguerite Long International Competition in Paris. Since then, he has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America to great critical acclaim. Also a respected chamber musician, Mr. Perry has collaborated with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world.

He also enjoys an international reputation as a teacher, presenting master classes throughout the world and is often asked to be a jury member at many of the most prestigious international piano competitions. His students have been prize winners in most major competitions and include two first-prize winners in the Rubinstein Piano Competition, four first-prize winners in the Music Teacher’s National Association national competition, and first-prize winners in the Naumburg National Chopin competition, Beethoven Foundation competition, the Federated Music Clubs, the YKA, AMSC, the Washington Friday Morning Musical, and YMF competitions, and finalists in the Chopin International in Warsaw, the Van Cliburn, the Queen Elisabeth, Leeds, Dublin, Busoni, Viotti, Leipzig Bach Competition, world competition in Cincinnati, and the Three Rivers Competition.

Mr. Perry is a professor at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, holds the endowed chair in piano at Mason Gross Music Dept. at Rutgers University, is also a former professor of piano at California State University Northridge in Los Angeles, a recent visiting faculty at Boston University, and Professor Emeritus of the USC Thornton School of Music. During the summer, he is a professor at the Lake Como International Piano Academy, the Orford Music Academy in Quebec, the Morningside, Music Bridge Program in Boston, the Internationaler Klaviersommer Cochem, Germany, the International Music Festival in Perugia, Italy, the Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Italy, and the John Perry Academy of Music Summer Festival in California. In addition, he has given master classes at nearly all the main music schools and conservatories in China, Taiwan, and Korea.

His recordings are available on Telefunken, Musical Heritage Society, CBC, ACA and Fox labels.