 Gary
A. Edwards was born in Spokane, Washington on 3/10/58.
He started playing string bass in the Spokane Symphony orchestra at age
18. His first performance was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and in the
following year he performed in Beethoven's Ninth.
He attended school in Idaho and then transferred from
Indiana University with a degree in Music Education, specializing in the
opera orchestra in school.
Gary became a public school teacher of instrumental music
from the 3rd to the 9th years and played bass in the Louisville Symphony
Orchestra for two years. Then, he joined the Peace Corps and went
to Santiago, Chile where he started a 30 year plus career in Social Work.
During the past 42 years he has also performed in bands
of all sizes from single to symphony and all styles from rock and country
to classical and choral, with some musical comedy orchestral experience.
He has written most styles including rock, country, children's,
classical, jazz, choral, gospel, Christmas Cantata and wrote a complete
musical comedy,
The Bureau-rats. He's also written five other
books and had thirty-seven articles published in computer magazines, primarily
software reviews. |
