Composer John Fitz Rogers' music has been performed by ensembles, festivals, and venues such as Alarm Will Sound, Third Coast Percussion, Bang on a Can Marathon, MATA Festival, American Modern Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, World Saxophone Congress, and more. He is a professor of composition at the University of South Carolina School of Music, where he founded and directed the Southern Exposure New Music Series, which received a Chamber Music America / ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. His piano trio Shadow Rhymes received its premiere by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players in April 2025, and his large ensemble composition Respiration, commissioned by Alarm Will Sound, was performed by AWS in Missouri in January 2026.
During his MacDowell residency in 1999, Rogers worked on a 45’ composition for electric guitar titled Transit, and in 2001, he completed a new work for the chamber ensemble Furious Band. In 2004, he worked on Memoria Domi, a four-movement composition, and completed a clarinet and piano transcription of The Arc of Winter. During his 2009 residency, he finished his string quartet Book of Concord and began a commission for a concerto for two pianos and orchestra. In 2025, Rogers finished editing a book on composing music and began work on a concerto for violin and wind instruments.
