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Sonny Burnette serves as
music department chair at Georgetown college, and teaches
courses in music theory, MIDI computer music, history of rock music, applied
saxophone;
and digital audio and video technology (graduate level). He holds the
Doctor of Arts degree from Ball State University (1985), Master of Music
degree from Northwestern University (1975), and the Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of South Florida (1974). Prior to
joining the GC faculty, he was a studio musician and arranger with the PTL Television Network for nine years, and an adjunct faculty member at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Burnette is an accomplished composer and arranger, and
was selected as the Kentucky Music Teachers Association (KMTA) 2001
Commissioned Composer. He has also won the James Madison
University flute choir composition competition three times, and was the
composer of the opening fanfare for the National Flute Association 25th
anniversary convention, Chicago, 1997. He has published works for
flute choir, flute and piano, flute quartet, saxophone and piano,
saxophone quartet, brass quintet, trumpet choir, string quartet, piano
trio, and wind ensemble. His works have been performed around the
world--Europe, South America, Asia, Australia and South Africa. In Spring 2003, Burnette was awarded the
Georgetown College Rollie Graves Faculty Technology Award. In
Spring 2006, he was awarded the inaugural Curry Award for Faculty
Excellence.
As a performer, Burnette has played over a dozen shows
with both The Temptations and The Four Tops, and has also performed with
entertainers and musicians including: Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Ed
McMahon, Red Skelton, Pat Boone, Ben E. King, Lou Rawls, Jerry Van Dyke,
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Andrae Crouch, Amy Grant, Sandi Patti and many
others. He has performed with the Lexington Philharmonic,
Charlotte Symphony, Muncie Symphony, Florida Gulf Coast and Northwest
Indiana Symphony orchestras.
Burnette has published articles in such journals
as: Down Beat, The Instrumentalist, Saxophone Journal, The
Saxophone Symposium, STV Magazine, Flute Talk, Flutewise (England) and The Church
Musician.
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