Background
DeMain, John was born on January 11, 1944 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States.
(Bestselling author John Connolly's first collection of sh...)
Bestselling author John Connolly's first collection of short fiction, Nocturnes, now features five additional stories -- never-before published for an American audience -- in a dark, daring, utterly haunting anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In "The New Daughter," a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in "The Underbury Witches," two London detectives find themselves battling a particularly female evil in a town culled of its menfolk. And finally, private detective Charlie Parker returns in the long novella "The Reflecting Eye," in which the photograph of an unknown girl turns up in the mailbox of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous killer. This discovery forces Parker to confront the possibility that the house is not as empty as it appears, and that something has been waiting in the darkness for its chance to kill again.
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DeMain, John was born on January 11, 1944 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States.
Bachelor of Music, Juilliard School Music, New York City, 1966. Master of Music, Juilliard School Music, New York City, 1968. Studies in conducting with Leonard Bernstein, Peter Adler.
Associate conductor National Education television Opera Project, Norwalk Symphony. Assistant conductor New York City Opera. Associate conductor St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, 1972-1974.
Music director Texas Opera Theater, 1974-1976. Former music director Opera Omaha. Music director, principal conductor Houston Grand Opera, 1976—1994.
Music director Madison Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin, since 1994. Artistic director Madison Opera, since 1994. Music & artistic director Opera Pacific, California, 1998—2008.
Principal guest conductor Chautauqua Opera Institute, 1985. Regional guest conductor Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, New York City Opera.
(Bestselling author John Connolly's first collection of sh...)
Fellow: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
Married Barbara DeMain. 1 child Jennifer.