John McKay (born November 11, 1938) is an American pianist and music educator of Canadian birth.
[1] Born in Montreal, McKay studied the piano with Lubka Kolessa in his native city as a boy.
In 1962 he won the Prix d'Europe which enabled him to pursue studies in Vienna and Cologne with Bruno Seidlhofer and in Brussels with Stefan Askenase.
In 1974 McKay emigrated to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
While pursuing these studies he began teaching on the music faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1976, remaining there until 2004.