Jan Johnson Swafford (born September 10, 1946 (71 years old), Chattanooga, Tennessee is an American composer and author who teaches composition, theory and musicology at the Boston Conservatory and Writing at Tufts University. musical biography of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms, and the introductory Vintage Guide to Classical Music, often heard as a musical commentator on NPR, Swafford's own music, which is very lyrical and moves freely between tonality and atonality, It is considered Neo-Romantic style, there are so many contributions, although not very evident in the world music, especially Hindus and Balinese, and jazz and blues.The titles of his works reveal a constant inspiration in nature and landscape. considers his work as a kind of classicism: that concerns clarity, immediacy and expression, or as he puts it: "music that sounds familiar considering it is new, works that sound as if they were written. " Notable are his orchestral works Landscape with Traveler (1979-80), After Spring Rain (1981-82) and From the Shadow of the Mountain (2001), the 1985 piano quintet Midsummer Variations, the 1989 piano quartet They Who Hunger, and the 2002 piano trio They That Mourn, the last in memory of November 9. His music has won several awards including an NEA Composer Grant, two from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships, and a Tanglewood scholarship.