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John Horman has now retired at the
completion of 26 years of teaching in the Montgomery County Public School System,
Montgomery county, Maryland. He taught for 21 years at the elementary level and 5
years at the secondary level. During his tenure with the Montgomery County System,
John received the Broom Award for Excellence for his work in composition for
children . He has worked extensively with choruses at both the elementary and
secondary levels and taught general music.
John has served Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church in Kensington, Maryland
for the past 28 years. He is presently Director of Music and oversees 4 choirs,
writing extensively for all of them. John's compositions are found in the catalogs
of ten nation-wide publishers and his choral works, both secular and sacred are
sung throughout the country. John recently wrote for both the Silver Burdette and
the Macmillan Publishing Houses for their 1988 school music series. His
compositions have been heard on national television in the United States and Great
Britain.
John also travels widely as a choral clinician and consultant, giving workshops
in children's and youth choir techniques and repertoire. He has directed over 50
choir festivals in the last 10 years, most recently in Fayetteville,
North Carolina; San Diego, California; Augusta, Georgia; Dunedin, Florida;
Charleston, West Virginia; and Huntington, NY. Summer workshops in 1997 included
Montreat, North Carolina; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Rapid City, South Dakota.
He conducted workshops during the summer of 1998 in Orlando, Florida; Rapid City,
South Dakota; Blackstone, Virginia; Manassas, Virginia; and Naperville, Illinois.
In 1999 he conducted workshops in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Camp Glenkirk,
Virginia; and Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.
John Horman served on the Choristers Guild Board of Director for 6 years, the
last 3 years as president of the board. He is presently on the Editorial Staff of
the new Church Music for Children Curriculum, and Church Music Workshop published
by Abingdon Press. Recently, he was elected to the Board of the Presbyterian
Association in Louisville, Kentucky. He will be serving a 3 year term with that
organization.
Presently, John is a member of a partnership with an artist and Christian
educator called NEW PATHS. This team services churches and community groups with
programs that utilize music, visual arts and drama to assist individuals in
discovering spirituality through the arts. This team has now completed its third
year of offering programs to churches and fellowship groups in the Washington
area. NEW PATHS has just authored its first two books, "Something Old, Something
New-Hymns to Sing and Things to Do" (Vol I & II), published by Abingdon
Press.
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