John Wineglass Music wonk
CRED CAS/BS music and music composition ’94
LIVELIHOOD Composer and performer; part-time faculty, California State University–Monterey Bay; founder, JW Productions
INTERESTS Traveling abroad, golfing, reading, consulting with churches on their music
FOCUS Music—I live and breathe music. pursuing a PhD in music composition with a cognate in ethnomusicology at UCLA
RECENT AWARDS 2005 ASCAP Film and Television Music Award, 2004–2005 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series, 2002–2003 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series, 2001–2002 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series
LAST BOOK YOU READ Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams; The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World by Brian Klemmer; Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (all three at the same time!)
WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT? Music, music, and more music! I am trying to find a balance between work and play.
ARE YOU A WONK? Yes. My heart is where the music is, and I had to follow that dream to the end.
ADDITIONAL LINKS JW Productions White Boy Brown Twitter