Music Director, Empire State Pops-Symphony-Chamber Orchestras (NY)
Immediate Past President, New York State School Music Association (NY)
Earl Groner is a member of the Music Department Faculty of the Scarsdale (NY) Public Schools where he teaches strings and orchestra. This is his forty-third consecutive year as an active music educator. He is a Past President of the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA), a Past President of the Westchester County (NY) School Music Association and presently is the President-Elect of the Eastern Division of MENC: The National Association for Music Education. For two years, he served as Chair of the Alumni Board of Governors of the University of Michigan School of Music. Mr. Groner is beginning his first term as a member of the Conductors Guild's Board of Directors.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Earl Groner received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his Master of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory. Additional music training was received at Tanglewood where for two summers, he was a Tanglewood Fellow in the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Presently, he is completing his doctoral studies at Drew University. He has been elected to membership in both Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Pi Kappa Lambda.
Earl Groner has served in the Seventh U. S. Army Symphony Orchestra based in Stuttgart, Germany and performed for two seasons with the National Orchestral Association in New York City. He has extensive experience both as an orchestral musician and as a professional orchestral conductor. He is Music Director of Empire State Concert Productions based in Scarsdale, New York and currently he is in the process of forming the White Plains Symphony Orchestra, a resident professional orchestra for the City of White Plains, the County Seat of New York State's Westchester County.
