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- Pianist/Composer. Recital at Carnegie Hall 4-25-1985
American composer of mostly chamber, vocal and piano works that have been performed in North America; he was also active as a pianist.
Mr. Violette studied at the High School of Music and Art in New York, New York from 1968–71 and there earned the Regent's Scholarship. He studied composition with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions and counterpoint with Otto Luening at the Juilliard School in New York, New York from 1971–75, where he earned his BMus and MMus, as well as the Lado Prize in Composition. He was later a student at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in New York, New York from 1994–96.
Among his honours were three fellowships from the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire (1983–85), a fellowship from the artist colony Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York (1999) and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Arts (1999).
As a pianist, his specialty was contemporary music. He worked as an accompanist to dance classes for Robert Blanshine, Nanette Cherrise, Merce Cunningham, and Janet Panetta in New York, New York in the 1980s.
He was also active in other positions. He served as music director of the Lutheran Church of Our Savior's Atonement and of its concert series Cornerstone Center from 1975–88. Moreover, he served as music director of the Battery Dance Company, the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company and the Peggy Florin Dancers, all in New York, New York, all in the 1980s before his term as a contemplative Benedictine monk at St. Mary's Monastery in Massachusetts from 1988–94. He served as music director of the St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Park Slope, Brooklyn from 1996–2021.
He taught as an adjunct instructor of literature and materials of music at the Juilliard School in 1975–76.
His publisher is the American Composers Alliance, for music written from 1970–89.
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1953 - 2021 (67 years)
