John R. Bourgeois

Colonel John R. Bourgeois was a conductor of the United States Marine Band from 1979 to 1996, as well as esteemed composer / arranger of American music. Bourgeois also currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Sinfonia Educational Foundation. He was initiated as an honorary member of the Zeta Pi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity at Loyola University in 1956, and as a member of the Fraternity's Alpha Alpha National Honorary Chapter in 1997. He was the Fraternity's 2000 recipient of the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award, presented at its national convention in Dallas, Texas.