Complex sentence: Gregory Short DMA Composition (August 14,1938-April 1,1999), was an American pianist and composer, the first Northwest pianist to extensively feature music by American and Northwest composers and possibly was the most frequently performed Northwest composer in the Pacific Northwest.
Split into simpler sentences: Gregory Short DMA Composition (August 14,1938-April 1,1999), was an American pianist and composer. Short was the first Northwest pianist to extensively feature music by American and Northwest composers and possibly was the most frequently performed Northwest composer in the Pacific Northwest.