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Bryan Kidd
retired as the Chief Composer and Arranger for the United States Navy Band, Washington, D.C. in 2002. He is an annual recipient of ASCAP’s Standard Award, since
1996, for music he has written for middle and high school band and orchestra. His music, consistently endorsed as an "Editor's
Choice" by J.W. Pepper & Co., is published by FJH Music Co., Curnow Music Press, and Warner Bros. Publications.
Bryan
is the director of Spriggs Road Jazz, a jazz magnet program of 4 big bands, comprised of students from Saunders Middle, and Hylton and Forest
Park High Schools in Prince
William County, Virginia;
and teaches Jazz Pedagogy and Big Band Arranging at Shenandoah University.
Reportedly, Bryan's first train set was delivered
within a week, or two, of his birth, courtesy of his grandfather, C. Newton Kidd. Family tradition holds that the main reason
Granddaddy liked his position as a Director for the (old) Norfolk Southern Railroad, and later the Central of Georgia, was
for the opportunity to "drive the train."
Bryan's
primary railroad interest is the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which, along with the Norfolk & Western, ran through
his hometown of Waynesboro, Virginia. Bryan
has served as Vice President and Secretary, and is currently a Director for the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society.
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