John Edmondson (musician)

For the Australian WW2 Victoria Cross medal awardee see John Hurst Edmondson

John Edmondson (born February 3, 1933) is an American professional trumpet player, pianist, music composer, former music teacher, and freelance writer (composer) and arranger. He is a member of ASCAP. He is also listed on the international "Who's Who in Music". He has composed over 700 publications.

Career

Edmondson graduated from Sarasota High School in 1949. He then received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida in 1955. He received his MM in Composition from the University of Kentucky. For ten years he taught music in public school. During this time he wrote many compositions for his own students. Also at this time, he was Staff arranger for the University of Kentucky Wildcat Marching Band. He also arranged several other universities, and regional high school marching bands.

He came out publicly as gay after that time.

After his teaching career, he became the Educational Editor for Hansen Publications in Miami Beach. He was in this position for 10 years. In the duration of this period, he composed hundreds of publications. This includes works for concert bands, marching bands, The Fun-Way Band Method, instrumental solo books, and several other instructional material. After this, he went on to become Director of Concert Band Publications for Jenson Publications, in Wisconsin. At this time he added several new pieces to his catalog.

Edmondson became a freelance writer for 7 years. This was the time where he published over 300 works to 15 different catalogs of publishers. He also married Anne McGinty.

From 1987 to 2001 both John Edmondson and owned and operated Queenwood publications, now part of the Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

He also wrote the song "Kensington March".

External links

• John Edmondson webpage
• Queenwood/Kjos Publications