Sospeso presented John Fitz-Rogers's guitar solo Push at Seattle's Tone Whole Festival.

John Fitz Rogers was born in Wisconsin in 1963. He holds degrees from Cornell University, the Yale School of Music, and Oberlin College, where he studied composition, conducting, and piano. His music has been performed by ensembles throughout the United States, including the Louisville Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra (Whitaker New Music Reading Session), Synchronia, Lionheart, the Philips Collection Concert Series (Washington, DC), the artsEdge Festival (Seattle), the National Flute Association, Society of Composers, the Portland International Guitar Festival, Composers in Red Sneakers, and the Syracuse Society for New Music.

His commissions include those from the Albany Symphony, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the New York Youth Symphony, Dogs of Desire, the American Composers Forum and the Jerome Foundation, Music at the Anthology and the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and the Dale Warland Singers. Rogers has received numerous grants and prizes for his music; among them are awards from ASCAP, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the American Music Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the 1996 Heckscher Foundation Composition Prize for his orchestral work, Symphony of Cities.

Recordings include the Albany Symphony's performance of Verge on Albany Records, and a recent release of his solo electric guitar piece Push on Gale Records. Rogers has taught on the faculties of Cornell University and the Longy School of Music, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of South Carolina.