| John Bannon
Dr. John Bannon has been the Principal Timpanist with The Florida Orchestra since 1988, conducts band and orchestra at St. Petersburg College, and, during summers, coaches chamber music and teaches percussion to 13-18 year olds at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont.
He has also been the timpanist of the Anchorage Symphony (1970-71), the Oklahoma Symphony (1979-88), the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria in Mexico City (1988-95), the Honolulu Symphony (1989), and the Colorado Music Festival (1998-2005).
Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, he earned degrees in Percussion Performance from the University of South Florida and the University of Michigan, and his doctorate in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Miami. He studied timpani and percussion with Saul Goodman, Robert McCormick, Charles Owen, Salvatore Rabbio and Cloyd Duff. Dr. Bannon lives in St. Petersburg with his wife, who is a flutist with the Sarasota Orchestra, and their two children.
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