Edward Knoeckel

July 18, 2021 -

Edward Knoeckel is a composer, pianist, music educator, and conductor who hails from the Constitution State.

As an educator, he has developed curriculum for community summer arts programs, public education, and has held university and college faculty positions in music theory/composition, American music history, music for dance, music for motion pictures, as well as instrumental music.

As a pianist and music director, he has performed at national music festivals across the country and abroad as a civilian as well as an active duty musician in the US Air Force performing a wide array of styles.

As a composer, he is interested in speaking about the human condition. He has received commissions for new compositions from chamber groups, big band, wind ensemble as well as soloists to include Eighth Blackbird, Dimensions in Blue, active duty Air Force and Army Guard bands, National Poetry Society, Hartford Historical Society, as well as large ensembles in the Connecticut and Virginia public school systems. He has composed and produced music in partnership with the national victims’ advocacy group Pure Hope Foundation to raise awareness of human trafficking.

He has scored numerous films and is an adjunct professor of music at George Mason University where he teaches film music theory and appreciation online. He has presented on film music theory at national conferences for the Society of Music Theory, College Music Society, and Society of Composers, Inc.

He taught high school in the Hartford, CT public school system at Great Path Academy and has served as music director and conductor for military bands and theater production companies.

He lives with his three children and wife in San Antonio, Texas.

Education:

B.A. University of Connecticut 2002
M.M. University of South Florida 2006
M.Ed University of Bridgeport 2014
DMA George Mason University 2019