John de Clef Piñeiro, a graduate of Yale Law School, is the former First Deputy General Counsel of the New York City Housing Authority and a composer by avocation. He describes himself as an autodidact when it comes to his passion for new music and composition, and is a long-standing member of the American Music Center. He is also known in the new music community as an editorial contributor of concert and CD reviews and interviews for The New Music Connoisseur. His works have been performed in concert halls and public schools and college venues in New York City and elsewhere in the United States and in new music festivals in Europe.

John de Clef Piñeiro is now serving his second two-year term as the Executive Director of the New York Composers Circle.

See also: AMC Webpage of John de Clef Piñeiro