John Gibson has been played on NTS shows including Launette's Hour , with It's True first played on 9 March 2014.

John Gibson is one of Ireland's leading pianist-composers. Born in Dublin in 1951 he has lived and worked in Cork since 1982. He is Lecturer in Piano at the Cork School of Music and has recently been awarded a first class honours Master of Arts in Composition from the Cork Institute of Technology. John has performed extensively over the past 30 years, with the National Symphony Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet. He has also worked with some of the leading Irish musicians including Mark O'Keefe, Bernadette Greevy, John Finucane, Colman Pearce and Robert Houlihan. His compositions include a Chamber Opera, Songs, Orchestral works and much Piano music along with 3 String Quartets. Two of his recent commissions include a test piece for the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, which took place at the NCH in May 2006 and which received its premiere performance in Cork at the Piano Portraits series in March 2007. A new String Quartet titled "IKON" written for the RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet, received its world premiere at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival on the 26th of June 2006, in Bantry House. It was broadcast live to six countries including Poland and Germany.

To date 5 CD's of his music have been issued, many with Arts Council funding. The first staged performance of his Chamber Opera, "Judith and Holofernes", was sponsored by Cork 2005-European Capital of Culture. Much of John's music is played regularly on RTE Lyric FM especially the Music Box for Piano. His works have also been performed and heard in China, Brazil, America, Russia and throughout Europe and Japan.

In 1997 John was awarded the prestigious Nijinsky Medal for his piano piece Nijinsky, by the Polish Ministry of Arts and Culture and the International Society of the Friends of Vaclav Nijinsky. He is the first composer to receive this honour.