Jan Swafford’s music has been performed throughout the United States and internationally by ensembles including the St. Louis, Indianapolis, Vermont, Chattanooga, and Dutch Radio symphonies, Orchestra New England, and Boston’s Musica Viva, Collage, and Dinosaur Annex. His music is expressive, distinctive, and admired for its clarity of texture and form, drawing subtle influences from Indian and Balinese traditions, jazz, and blues. Also an acclaimed author, Swafford has written bestselling, definitive biographies of Ives, Brahms, Beethoven, and Mozart. His writing has appeared in Slate, Gramophone, The Atlantic, and Guardian International, and he has been featured on NPR and the BBC.