John B Hedges was born in 1974 in Wilmington, Delaware. The son of a rock musician, he began studying classical music at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his B.A. in Music in 1994. He received his M.A. from Westminster Choir College in 1997 and an Artist’s Diploma in 2002 from the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Richard Danielpour and Ned Rorem. In his summers, John B has twice attended the Aspen Music Festival where he worked with John Harbison and George Tsontakis and has twice attended the Contemporary Composition and Performance course at the Britten-Pears School (as both composer and conductor.) John B subsequently returned to the U.K. as assistant to composer/conductor Oliver Knussen and in March of 2005 became the music assistant to composer Tan Dun. John B Hedges’ music has been performed throughout the United Sates as well as Canada, France and England. Most recently, he has completed Vogue au Large for the Bergamo Ensemble in the U.K., "Sycamore Cottage" for flutist Jeffrey Khaner, and "a sea god speaking", a concerto for Canadian bassoonist Alexandra Eastley. His Three Pieces for Orchestra were performed by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Blues for Laurie, a work for bassoon and piano, was featured on a recent CD by bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson. John B has received the Alfred Casselo Award, the Theodore Presser Career Grant, Honorable Mention in the 2000 and 2003 ASCAP Awards, and 2nd prize in the Florilege Vocal de Tours Choral Composition Competition for his piece, "Le Diapason d’Humeur": a collaboration with poet Fred Colier. Recently, he has been a recipient of a residency at Yaddo in the fall of 2004, a 2006 Independence Foundation Fellowship and a 2006 grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In his spare time, John B continues to play and record music with his Philadelphia-based funk band, Scrapple.