Jerry Pannone
Jerry Pannone has spent the majority of his working life in music and the humanities, as both an artist and an educator. He attended San Francisco State University where he earned a Bachelor's and Master’s degree in music and a teaching credential. He received many awards for teaching during his tenure as an educator 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 also enjoyed a full career as a performer and composer.
Along with Mr. Pannone’s musical career, he has had a deep abiding interest in the areas of philosophy and psychology. In collaboration with the San Francisco State University Philosophy Department, he introduced and coordinated the National High School Ethics Bowl debate teams in his and other High schools in San Francisco as well as taught ethics and critical thinking classes.
Like many others, his understanding of the human condition recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to grasp the underlying causes of “why we do what we do.” This interdisciplinary approach involves all human pursuits: the humanities, arts and sciences as well as those manual and domestic arts that have sustained the vast majority of humans for most of our history. This book is a product of that all-embracing view. Jerry lives in Santa Clara, CA.
