John Wernega
John Wernega is a multi-instrumentalist, music teacher, arranger, and director in South Jersey. He has a Bachelor of Music Education from Glassboro State College (1993), and he has a Masters in Music Education from Westminster Choir College of Rider University (2011).
John has taught Instrumental, Choral, Handbells, and K to 8 General Music at Quinton Township School since 1994. He started a barbershop harmony program at the school in the spring of 2014, and at this time he is the only music teacher in the country that has an elementary barbershop chorus. In 2019 he founded Head Start in Harmony, which is a yearly festival for elementary barbershop singing.
Articles about John's success with his students appear in Choral Director Magazine and School Band and Orchestra Magazine. In 2020 he was the recipient of the "Music Educator of the Year" Award by the National Association for Music Education and Barbershop Harmony Society. He was inducted into the Philadelphia Mummers String Band Hall of Fame in 2012 for his success in arranging.
John enjoys arranging for a wide variety of ensembles, including concert band, handbell choir, choir, barbershop chorus/quartet, British Brass Band, Orchestra, brass quintet, and instrumental quartets for all woodwind and brass instruments.
John has taught Instrumental, Choral, Handbells, and K to 8 General Music at Quinton Township School since 1994. He started a barbershop harmony program at the school in the spring of 2014, and at this time he is the only music teacher in the country that has an elementary barbershop chorus. In 2019 he founded Head Start in Harmony, which is a yearly festival for elementary barbershop singing.
Articles about John's success with his students appear in Choral Director Magazine and School Band and Orchestra Magazine. In 2020 he was the recipient of the "Music Educator of the Year" Award by the National Association for Music Education and Barbershop Harmony Society. He was inducted into the Philadelphia Mummers String Band Hall of Fame in 2012 for his success in arranging.
John enjoys arranging for a wide variety of ensembles, including concert band, handbell choir, choir, barbershop chorus/quartet, British Brass Band, Orchestra, brass quintet, and instrumental quartets for all woodwind and brass instruments.