Jonathan Clarke Schwabe is Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of Northern Iowa. His works have been widely performed in the US and in Europe. He composes works for large and chamber ensembles. As I Remember (for youth orchestra) was performed at the Kennedy Center in the summer of 1999. In 2000 and 2004, his chamber operas The Hard Years (librettist Beth Webb Hart), and The Sojourner (based on the Carson McCullers short story) were premiered at the Maude Powell Music Festival. He composed songs for the musical comedy The Bake Shop Ghost in collaboration with author Jacqueline Ogburn. In 2010 he was commissioned to write a new work for wind symphony and mixed voices to commemorate a historic visit by His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to the University of Northern Iowa. In July of 2012 his work A Toi Cometé Vagabonde was premiered at the World Saxophone Congress in Aberdeen, Scotland. His principal teachers include Samuel Adler, John Anthony Lennon and Dick Goodwin. His music is published by Musikverlag Bruno Uetz, Veritas Musica Publishing and Alafia Press.