About Jon Corelis
Jon Corelis was born in California and grew up in and around Chicago, where he earned a degree in Classical Languages and Literatures at the College of the University of Chicago. He later took a doctorate in Classics at Stanford, and taught Classics and Humanities at Stanford, the University of California, and the University of Minnesota. After a subsequent career as a software specialist in Silicon Valley, he now lives in Wisconsin. His poetry and other writings have been published in print and on web sites in eight countries, and he has given lectures and readings by invitation in America and Europe.
He more recently has turned to composing songs and instrumental pieces. His music has been featured on the web site The Flexible Persona, has been performed in concert by the Wisconsin ensemble a very small consortium, by the New York State flute quartet Party of Four, by the Opus Chorale of West Virginia, and at Denison University's TUTTI 2019 Festival, and has been recorded by flutist Robin Meiksins for her YouTube recording project 365 Days of Flute, and by clarinetist Emily Mehigh for her YouTube recording project The Miniature Month of May.
More information about him, including links to his books Selected Poems and Essays (3rd ed. 2025) and Music for Shakespeare's The Tempest: Songs and Incidental Music, available in paperback editions on Amazon, may be found on his Web Site
For information about performing or recording his work, , please see his permissions page.
Below are some samples of his music recorded by professional musicians:
Painted Seasons
The Empty Plateia
Irish Dance for Solo Piccolo - Basler Piccolo Version
White Dawn
MacNeil of Barra/Sealwoman's Croon/Glenlogie for Solo Flute
Three Fairy Songs
In another section below are links to some of his compositions currently available as software generated demos, but which he hopes will eventually also be performed by musicians.