John Dorhauer
John Dorhauer (johndorhauer.com) is a composer, educator, and performer from Chicago. A nine-time recipient of ASCAP Plus Awards, John’s music has been recorded/performed by International Contemporary Ensemble, Chicago Composers Orchestra, Latitude 49, Timothy Munro, The New Collaborative, Orion Ensemble, Fifth House Ensemble, University of Nevada- Reno New Music Ensemble, Elmhurst University Percussion Ensemble and New Music Collective, Origin of Animal, and his own jazz band, Heisenberg Uncertainty Players (HUP). In recent years, John has received grants from Illinois Arts Council Agency and the 3Arts Arts for Illinois Relief Fund. HUP released an album of John’s original music called Gradient in 2020, and they hold monthly residencies at Wicker Park’s Phyllis’ Musical Inn and the Chicago Magic Lounge. Recent projects for HUP include performances featuring John’s arrangements of The Beatles’ Abbey Road, Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, Heart’s Dreamboat Annie, Wings’ Venus And Mars, and Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here albums; a historical retrospective of boy band music; an all 90’s show; a heavy metal-themed show; and We Tear Down Our Coliseums, which is a nine- movement multi-media suite in which each movement is written as an homage to a baseball stadium that has been destroyed. In 2021, HUP performed at Ear Taxi Festival, in which they premiered John’s eight-movement suite Functions.
As an educator, John has served as adjunct faculty at Elmhurst University for the past 13 years, where he has taught classes in music theory, composition, and popular music studies. His classes and ensembles include multiple levels of music theory, Orchestration, Composition Seminar, The Beatles, History of Rock, New Music Collective, and Popular Music Ensemble. John also teaches private lessons in trumpet and composition to students ranging from elementary school to college. As a trumpeter, John performs in numerous jazz, rock, and classical ensembles around Chicago, including Shout Section Big Band, Fort Frances, and Schaumburg Youth Symphony Orchestra.
