John David Bryson Burge (born 2 January 1961) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist.
He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award (1982), the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship (1983), second prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival (1984), and five PROCAN Young Composers' Competition prizes between 1985 and 1988 among others.
Some music critics have likened his compositional style to that of Benjamin Britten and Maxwell Davies.
[1] Born in Dryden, Ontario, Burge earned an associate degree from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1979.
[1] Burge's compositions have been performed by numerous notable ensembles, including the BBC Singers, the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Hart House Chorus, the Nepean Symphony Orchestra, the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, and the Michigan State University Children's Choir.