Jon Appleton

Jon H. Appleton (January 4, 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA) is a composer, an author and a teacher.

Appleton studied at "Reed College", at University of California (with Andrew W. Imbriethe), University of Oregon (with Homer Keller and Robert Trotter) & Columbia University (with William J. Mitchell, Mario Davidovsky & Vladimir Ussachevsky).

Appleton taught at "Dartmouth College" since 1967, where he has been the Arthur Virgin Professor of Music since 1992, chair of the music department and director of the electroacoustic music graduate program. He also taught as a visiting professor at "Brooklyn College" in 1988, in "Theremin Center for Electro-Acoustic Music" at the "Moscow Conservatory of Musi"c in 1993 and at "Keio University" in Tokyo in 1995-96 and 1998. He wrote books and articles on the relationship between music and technology.