Biography - Edward S Gant

Ed Gant received a BA in Elementary Education from Eastern Mennonite University, a BM in Music from James Madison University and an MA and DMA in Cello Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa. The dissertation is titled, A Comprehensive Performance Project in Violoncello Literature with an Essay and Performance Edition of The Concerto in A Major forVioloncello by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg

Dr. Gant is currently on the music faculty at Eastern Mennonite University where he teaches cello. He previously taught at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and at the University of Indiana in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Ed has served as the principal cellist in the La Cross Symphony Orchestra, the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra and the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra. He is also a member of the Richmond Symphony in Richmond, Virginia.

Professor Gant is an active chamber musician, recitalist and freelance musician. Currently, Ed is involved in two CD recordings. One, for cello, harp and flute, is a benefit for the Leukemia Foundation and the other is a compilation of his own arrangements of American and European folk/hymn tunes for unaccompanied cello.

Ed enjoys gardening of all types, reading historical fiction and theology, exercising, cooking and strangely for a musician - hunting and fishing. He currently live in Harrisonburg, Virginia with his wife Lori and two of his three daughters along with a couple of young Daschunds.

 
 

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