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Published on: 6/22/2008
Last Visited: 6/22/2008
John Bannon, Percussion, Sr. is Principal Timpanist with The Florida Orchestra and the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, and formerly Principal Timpanist with the Anchorage Symphony, the Oklahoma Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria in Mexico City, and the Honolulu Symphony.He earned degrees in Percussion Performance from the University of South Florida (BA) and the University of Michigan (MM), and in Instrumental Conducting (DMA) from the University of Miami.Dr. Bannon has taught for thirty years as an adjunct to his performing career, and counts among his former students orchestral performers, music and non-music professors, physicians, business people, attorneys, and band officers in the U.S. military.John and his wife Carmen Newell Bannon, who is a flutist with the Florida West Coast Symphony in Sarasota and the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado, live in St. Petersburg with their daughter Elizabeth and their son Kelsey.