JOHN A. BAVICCHI

On this anniversary of John´s passing, Peter Hazzard and I, Gary Dranch, are making the `Tribute to John Bavicchi´ CD, `Tomorrow Will Be Today´ (opus 126), available for online streaming via the distributor, CDBaby and all proceeds go to BJK Publications, which John and now Peter created to showcase their compositions, and those of the composition students of John´s and others. This is a fitting tribute to keep the memory if John Bavicchi alive, by making his music and the other composers on...

John was a powerful influence in my life as young composer at Berklee. I am very sad to see that he passed away a number of years ago. I only recently pulled out my orchestra piece which was the final project I wrote for him in 1990 at Berklee. I've made a small video to go with it on line and would like to share it with his family. He was a powerful inspiration for this music. Thank you John. May you be ever at peace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJlFOghXuYw

John was a great inspiration. I studied with him in 1982-83.

I knew John during my student days at the New England Conservatory in the 1950's. A talented man he was never too busy to help and advise a friend. RIP John, be seeing you soon.

I studied composition with Mr Bavicchi for two years at Berklee College. I appreciated the way he presented so many possibilities without displaying his preference for any style. He had a very important influence on my musical development and I will always be thankful for that. Steven Antonelli

He loved to give much thought, feeling, time, space, and resources to teaching us, the next generation of composers, the craft and art of composition.

Mr. Bavicchi was the best composition teacher I've had.

I'm forever grateful to have studied not only music but what it is like to really live life according to John.

Thank you Beverly and John for inviting me into your home on those few occasions. Those are truly some of the best experiences I've had while attending school in Boston. I really learned a lot from the both of your in regards to love, music and companionship.

Forever spiritually indebted to you,
Eloy Palacios

It was privilege to meet John and to work with him on recording his Clarinet Concerto. He subsequently wrote a wonderful work for me--a double concerto entitled "Tomorrow Will Be Today" - we corresponded and I was very involved with him during the genesis of the work - so much so that I documented this process in "The Clarinet" journal in a September 2009 article entitled "The Genesis of a (double) Concerto. John was enormously helpful to me in giving me permission to publish notes and...