Jan Swafford
Writer
Jan Swafford is a composer and writer. His music has been played around the country and abroad by groups including the symphonies of St. Louis, Indianapolis, Vermont, and Chattanooga, also Orchestra New England, the Dutch Radio Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic. As a writer he has produced leading biographies of Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, and Ives. His journalism is extensive, the publications including Guardian International, Slate, Gramophone, and The Atlantic. A longtime program note writer for the Boston Symphony, he has also written notes for the orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and New York, and the programs of the Metropolitan Opera, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Deutsche Grammophon. His website is janswafford.com.
