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 John
D. Horman has served Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church in
Kensington, Maryland since 1970. Warner Memorial is a small but very
active neighborhood church in the Maryland suburbs near Washington
DC. John is organist and directs the choir program there. He had retired
from his position of music instructor for the Montgomery County Public
School System after teaching for 27 years. He presently serves as
an adjunct professor at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and on
the teaching staff of the Strathmore Arts Center in Rockville, Maryland.
John received his undergraduate degree in music education at The University of Maryland and his master's degree in Human Development at the Institute of Child Study in College Park, Maryland. His composition studies were done privately with Dr. Emma Lou Diemer, Alice Parker and Dr Robert Parris. John was on the Choristers Guild Board of Directors, where he served as the head of the publications committee and later president of the board. John also was on the Board of Directors for the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. Still active as a conductor and workshop leader, he has served as a clinician in the area of children's and youth music at major denominational conferences in the US for the last 25 years. John has two grown children who are also notable in music. His daughter, Amy is a concert violinist and performs with orchestras on the East Coast. His son, Todd is an actor and lives in New York City where he works in musical theatre and commercials. His grandson, Lucas enjoys singing, playing the piano and studying beginning martial arts. John's compositions appear in major music catalogues, but his very first published work was with Choristers Guild and was called "Yonder Lies a Boy", a short one page song for Christmas. John frequently sets the texts of Mary Nelson Keithahn, a long time friend and colleague who lives on the other side of the US from John in South Dakota. Much of what they write together has been inspired by trips to Israel and Jordan. Today John lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his dog, Puck. (bio updated 2008) |
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