Jonathan Cohen's business card says "Bald Technical Guy."

Jon was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1954. After passing through Palo Alto, California and undergraduate school in Akron Ohio, he settled in Maryland, where he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Jon has worked as a researcher in information retrieval and visualization, optical and signal processing, and related fields, for 40 years. His resulting trophies include more than a dozen patents and a bald head.

Confined to his house for several snow days in 2003, Jon began to compose, and has resisted all calls to desist. Four times his odd children have been winners of the NFA's Newly Composed Music Competition.

Jon plays flute in the Montgomery Village Community Band (Maryland) and Tiny, his contrabass flute, in Flutes on the Brink and Flute Cocktail, from which he draws far too much encouragement.

Jon continues his dubious contributions to science as he composes and plays. His compositions are published by:

Falls House Press / Theodore Presser

ALRY Publications

ScoreVivo.com

Tetractys Publishing

and

Nourse Wind Publications