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Composers BureauJohn Heilman SchooleyBiography
 John H. Schooley was born on February 8, 1943 in Nelson, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Montrose High School (PA) he attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan in 1961 where he studied theory, acoustics, piano, and tuba. He received a B.S. degree in Music Education from Mansfield University, PA in l965 and was awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Fellowship to begin graduate studies the following fall at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. At the Academy, he studied composition with Richard Stoker (a former student of Nadia Boulanger), harmony with Francis Cameron, orchestration with Leighton Lucas, and tuba with John Fletcher of the LSO receiving a Certificate of Merit in 1966. Upon returning to the United States, he secured an instrumental teaching position in the Athens Area School system at East Smithfield, Pennsylvania. The following summer he was awarded a graduate assistantship to attend and to teach theory and tuba at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He received the M.M. degree in theory/composition the following spring (1968) and was employed as an Instructor of theory and tuba at Eastern Kentucky University for the following two years before accepting his current position at Fairmont State University in 1970. During employment at EKU and FSU, Schooley continued studies in theory, composition, counterpoint and tuba at the Aspen School of Music with 2 E.P.D.A. Grants (1969-70); Yale School of Music with the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship (1971); L’Ecole de Hindemith in Vevey, Switzerland (1973); CUNY Graduate Center as an N.E.H. Seminar Fellow (1979) and Choral Arranging with Alice Parker at Westminster Choir College (1984). In addition he was awarded four F.S.U. Research Grants, a sabbatical leave (1982), and a F.S.U. Faculty Development Grant (1984). He received an Outstanding Educator of America award (1973), commissions from the WV Arts & Humanities Commission (1974), WV Music Teachers National Association (1986), First Presbyterian Church of Fairmont (1988) and Fairmont State University (2005) along with numerous other awards from FSU, the City of Fairmont, Mansfield University, WVMEA, and from the Fairmont Rotary Club. His THREE DANCES for Woodwind Trio received a first place national award in the 1975 Delius Association Competition.
Performances of his works have appeared in live concerts at Donnell Library in Lincoln Center, NYC, and throughout North America, Europe, & Asia. Broadcasts of his compositions have occurred on West Virginia Public Radio and National Public Radio from Washington, D.C. In addition to musical compositions, Mr. Schooley has authored and published nine books in music theory, and five articles in various national music magazines including, Musical America, the International Trombone Journal, and Woodwind, Brass and Percussion. Mr. Schooley is the founder of Heilman Music (1984) an ASCAP firm which publishes only original compositions by American composers. In addition to his own compositions, his catalog carries titles by William Dougherty, Jan Krzywicki, Robert C. Ehle, Virgil Thomson, and Richard Wellock. In 1989, he became a founding member (tuba) of the Appalachian Brass Quintet which can be heard on two available CD recordings. He has arranged numerous works for the ABQ for public performances.
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