Dr. Emery Warnock  is the band director at Rising Starr Middle School.

Dr. Warnock comes from Richmond Hill, GA where he was band director at Richmond Hill Middle School for 10 years.

He is a graduate of Berry College, The Florida State University (M.S.), VanderCook College of Music(M.M.Ed.) and The University of Utah (Ph.D.) where he was a teaching assistant for 3 years and a

University Research Fellow in music education for a year. Dr. Warnock was 2007 Teacher of the Year at Richmond Hill Middle School.

During Dr. Warnock’s tenure at Richmond Hill Middle School, the Symphonic Band performed at the 2011 GMEA In-Service Conference, being the first band ever from GMEA District 1 to perform at the event. In 2007, the RHMS Symphonic Band performed an all-commissioned works performance at the 30th annual Georgia Middle School Association Conference. Also, that year, the band performed at the Southern Star Music Festival in Atlanta, earning superior ratings and receiving the highest award in their division. Each year since 2008, the band has received superior ratings for performances in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Dixie Classic Festivals, twice performing in the National Adjudicators Invitational.  In 2009 and in 2010, the band received State Level Winner Awards from the Mark of Excellence National Wind Band Honors Project with three students receiving Most Outstanding Woodwind Soloists on their respective instruments (in 2009). The RHMS Band was recently recognized as a recipient of the 2011 GMEA Exemplary Performance Award.

Dr. Warnock is an arranger of young concert band literature. He has recently published concert band music with De Haske Publications. His most recent composition is on De Haske Winds label CD, On Stage (De Haske Records 2010) He is also an arranger of brass quintet music with PEL Music Publications.               

 Dr. Warnock is an active researcher in music education with over 20 conference presentations and publications in Contributions to Music Education, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Journal of Band Research, Research Perspectives in Music Education, the Southern Journal of Music Education, Georgia Music News and The Instrumentalist.

Internationally, Dr. Warnock has been involved in summer in-service teaching in Asia, The Middle East, and Europe. In Scotland, he collaborates with Hugh Johnstone, M.B.E., organizer of the Dalmellington Junior Brass Band, in an exchange of brass pedagogical material and ideas for teachers of young brass students. Dr. Warnock was a 2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholar observing bands and music education in Japanese schools.

Dr. Warnock is a member of Phi Beta Mu, the international honorary organization for school instrumental music conductors.  He is a recipient of the National Band Association Citation of Excellence.