John Anthony Lennon

John Anthony Lennon (born 1950 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American composer of contemporary classical music based in Georgia.

John Anthony Lennon was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and raised in Mill Valley, California.

degree in liberal arts from the University of San Francisco, first majoring in English and minoring in philosophy, later adding music courses.

Lennon is known particularly for his works for classical guitar (many of which were written for the American guitarist David Starobin), including Another's Fandango (1981), Gigolo (1996), and the guitar concerto Zingari (1991), and for several contributions to the classical saxophone repertoire, including "Distances Within Me" (1980) for James Forger, "Symphonic Rhapsody" for Donald Sinta, "Spiral Mirrors" (2009) for the Creviston Fader Duo, "Elysian Bridges" (2011) for the Capitol Quartet, and several other chamber pieces.

Additionally, Lennon has also won a Rome Prize and been a resident of the MacDowell Colony.