Joan Cochran Sommers
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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.[1] She founded the accordion program at the University of Missouri- Kansas City in 1961, where she taught until she retired in 2000.[1][2] She was named an honorary member of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes in 2014.[3][4]
