Mr. John Q. Lennard

Biography

John Q. Lennard, a native of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama presently serves as Director of Bands at Tuskegee University. He received his primary and secondary education in the Macon County Public schools. He is a proud graduate of Booker T. Washington High School. John sought his college education at The Florida A. &M. University in Tallahassee, Florida where he earned a B.S.Degree in music education. Lennard is a charter member of the FAMU Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Professional Music Fraternity of America. John Lennard is also a member of the Zeta Phi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity at Tuskegee University.  After college John served as a high school band director in Homestead, Miami, and Orlando, Florida and Tuskegee, Alabama. He also taught elementary music at the Rio Grande Charter School in Orlando, Florida.  He has performed music across the world in places such as Switzerland, France, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. Lennard has also had the distinctive opportunity to perform with or open for great musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, The Ohio Players, Victor Goines, Nat Adderly, Jimmy Heath and the Heath Brothers, The Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Frank Foster, Brian McKnight, Donnell Jones, Ruben Studdard, The Phat Cat Players, Dr. Dorinda Clark-Cole, Kurt Carr, P.J. Morton, Marvin Sapp, Beverly Crawford, Richard Smallwood, and Byron Cage.

Research Interest

 Bands