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John David Bryson Burge is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award, the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship, second prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival, and five PROCAN Young Composers' Competition prizes between 1985-1988 among others. In 2009 he won the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his Flanders Fields Reflections. Some music critics have likened his compositional style to that of Benjamin Britten and Maxwell Davies.
Burge earned an associates degree from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1979. He remained at the school, earning a bachelors degree in 1983 and a masters degree in 1984. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1989. Among his teachers in music composition were John Beckwith, Stephen Chatman, Walter Buczynski, John Hawkins, and Derek Holman.
In 1987 Burge joined the music faculty at Queen's University where he taught music analysis and composition. He formerly served as the director of the Queen's School of Music.
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