FRENCH HORN INSTRUCTOR

JOHN WILKERSON

John Wilkerson graduated from Old Dominion University with a bachelor's degree in Music Education, cum laude, and Radford University with a master's degree in Music Performance. After years as a teacher, performer and business owner in Virginia and Maryland, Wilkerson chose Florida as home in 1998. He keeps busy in the professional music education community with 30 private horn students and as the Adjunct Professor of Horn at Eastern Florida State College.

His private students consistently win the top seats in the area's All-County Bands and Orchestras and over the last several years have also won the principal seats in Florida's All-State Orchestras and Bands. His EFSC students have gone on to receive advanced degrees in music and have entered both the music education and music performance fields. In the music performance area, Wilkerson is semi-retired as a freelance hornist in central and south Florida. His performances have included tours with Johnny Mathis, The Irish Tenors, Dennis DeYoung with Styx, Kanas, the Moody Blues, Mannheim Steamroller, The Alan Parsons Project, Clay Aiken, Amy Grant and Bernedette Peters among with many other major entertainers. Wilkerson has performed with many of the professional orchestras in central and south Florida and is a founding member of the Sunshine Brass Quintet.

If you are interested in lessons, Mr. Wilkerson can be contacted at 321-223-8697 or hornplr@gmail.com