George Edge is in his 24th year as the Director of Bands at Grove City High School and in his 32th year of teaching. Mr. Edge is “The 2007 Ohio Teacher of the Year” which was announced by Former Ohio Governor, Bob Taft. Under his direction, the Grove City Band has earned over 70 Grand Championship awards. Each year, the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois selects only five United States High School Bands to perform at their prestigious clinic. Mr. Edge’s Grove City High School Symphonic Band has been selected twice to perform there, in 1996 and again in 2002. Mr. Edge’s concert and marching bands have consistently received superior ratings at OMEA state adjudicated events every year since 1980. In 2009, his band was named Grand Champion of the Fiesta Bowl Parade in Phoenix, Arizona and Grand Champion Runner-Up in the National Field Show Competition. In 2006, his band was named the grand champion band of MusicFest in Orlando, Florida. He has taken the Grove City Marching Band to the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade in 1990 and 2000. Under his direction, the 2005 Grove City Band performed in the New Years Day Parade in London, England. Mr. Edge is one of very few high school band directors in the nation to be selected for membership into the American Bandmasters Association.

 
Prior to his position at Grove City, Mr. Edge was the director of bands and choirs at Newton High School in Pleasant Hill, Ohio. In 1985, his band won the Best Overall Concert Band Award at the American School Band Director’s Association’s National Concert Band Contest, adjudicated by John Paynter, Harry Begian, and Mark Hindsley. He was the 1986 recipient of the ASBDA Stanbury Award, given to one band director in the nation who has taught between 5-10 years for outstanding achievement He is the 1997 recipient of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra's Secondary School Music Educator Award. In addition he is a member of Phi Beta and has served as an adjudicator and clinician around the country.

Mr. Edge is a graduate of Tippecanoe High School, in Tipp City, Ohio and has a Master of Arts degree in music education from The Ohio State University with a minor in educational supervision. He earned a Bachelors of Music Education degree from Bowling Green State University after initial undergraduate work at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He is married with two children and his wife, Sherron, is a music teacher in the Columbus Public Schools.

Career Highlights at GCHS:

• The Symphonic Band performed for the 50th anniversary of the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
• The Marching Band performed in the 1990 and 2000 Tournament of Roses Parades in Pasadena, California. 
• The Marching Band has earned over 60 Grand Champion awards, including awards for concert and marching performance at the 1993 and 1997 Musicfest Orlando Band Competitions in Orlando, Florida.
• The bands have received superior ratings every year at the State and District large-group OMEA contests, and have consistently received Superior Division I ratings at each national contest they have entered.

Thomas Traini has been assisting with the GCHS bands since 2001. He is also the orchestra director at GCHS and Jackson Middle School, directs one of the concert bands, and teaches brass students in the district's intermediate schools. Prior to coming to Grove City, Mr. Traini served as director of the Bloom-Carroll High School Band for four years. During his tenure, the BCHS Symphonic Band earned State superior ratings for the first time in over 25 years, and the Marching Band earned State superior ratings for the first time in that school's history.

Mr. Traini is a tuba player who earned his music education degree from The Ohio State University (1997). While in the OSU Marching Band he "dotted the i" in Script Ohio at the 1996 Michigan game and the 1997 Rose Bowl. Mr. Traini is himself a 1993 graduate of Grove City High School. His wife, Crystal, received her bachelors degree in music education from Capital University and taught band for three years at Waverly High School.  She now stays home to care for their two children, Alex and Colyn.