Jerry Pannone

Jerry Pannone

Jerry Pannone attended San Francisco State University, where he received his teaching credential and Master's degree in Music. During this period he also attended the Ali Akbar Khan College of North Indian Music. Although his main area of emphasis has been in teaching, he has also composed two ballets, two choral ensemble works, and several works for jazz bands and chamber ensembles.

He has taught grades ranging from elementary through high school in San Mateo, Oakland, and San Francisco, California while continuing to pursue his professional performing career. Mr. Pannone has been a conductor for the San Francisco School District Honor Orchestra and for the past 30 years taught humanities, critical thinking, and music at the San Francisco School of the Arts High School (now renamed the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts). He also founded a program on ethics, which was part of the National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB), and partnered graduate students from the San Francisco State University Philosophy Department with students from two San Francisco high schools.

Mr. Pannone has received numerous awards for teaching, including the San Francisco Symphony’s 2003 Agnes Albert Award for excellence in music education and the 2009 Teacher of the Year Award for California State Senate District 8. He received the California Music Educators Association’s Bay Area Life Time Achievement Award in 2018 for exemplary service and contributions to the music education profession.

Mr. Pannone has also had a life-long interest in philosophy and psychology, as well as a deep, abiding love of metaphysics, all of which have contributed to the subject of this book.