John Orfe has won a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a Tanglewood Fellowship, a Morton Gould Award and nine Standard Awards from ASCAP, the William Schuman and Boudleaux Bryant prizes from BMI, and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Orfe has fulfilled commissions for Duo Montagnard (NY), the Music Institute of Chicago (IL), the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra (IN), and the Lila Muni Gamelan Ensemble (NY). As soloist, collaborative pianist, and the core pianist of Alarm Will Sound, Mr. Orfe has performed across the US and in Central and South America, and his performances have been described as 'breathtaking' and 'hypervirtuosic' by such sources as the New York Times and the San Fransisco Chronicle.