Joan Cochran Sommers
American accordion player and conductor
About Joan Cochran Sommers
Joan Cochran Sommers is an accordion player and conductor from Kansas City, Missouri. Cochran Sommers' first accordion was acquired from a door-to-door salesman. She founded the accordion program at the University of Missouri- Kansas City in 1961, where she taught until she retired in 2000. She was named an honorary member of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes in 2014.
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