Dr. John Wykoff, composer and music theorist, received his PhD in music composition from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, MA in music composition from the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, and BA in music and philosophy from Covenant College.

Wykoff has composed works for solo piano, small ensemble, voice, choir, orchestra and more. His chamber music has been performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Cygnus, Second Instrumental Unit, and the MIVOS Quartet, and his sacred music, including choral works and congregational song is sung in churches across the United States and in Canada. Queens College awarded him the “George Perle Award” for music composition, a distinction all the more meaningful to him, since he has a keen interest in the music of George Perle.

He was a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Graduate Center in Manhattan, where his dissertation “Voice Leading in the Music of George Perle” (2011), has been nominated for the Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award. Before joining the Lee University faculty, he taught music theory and musicianship at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College.

Wykoff was recently a featured speaker at the annual conference of the Alliance of Christian Musicians in Tacoma, Washington, where he gave talks on the music Christian hymnody. A pianist and baritone, he occasionally gives recitals with his wife, organist Evangeline Wykoff