Tony Lymon (Petal HS)

Tony Lymon is the former Assistant Director of Bands at Petal High
School in Petal, Mississippi, and currently is the co-music
arranger/show designer for the Petal High School marching band.
Tony is the director show designer for the Petal Indoor Percussion
Theatre, a national WGI Percussion Scholastic World Finalist. He
has twice been awarded the Outstanding Junior High Director of the
Southeast Mississippi Band Directors Association and the 2008
Mississippi Bandmasters Association AE McClain Outstanding Young
Band Director Award. Tony currently serves as a Creative Designer
for Pacific Crest Drum and Bugle Corps. Tony holds a Bachelors's
degree in Music Education from the University of Southern
Mississippi and a Certification in 3D Architectural Rendering from
The 3D Training Institute of New York. He was a member and
principal percussionist in the world-renowned Southern Miss Wind
Ensemble and Southern Miss Symphony Orchestra. While at Southern
Miss, Tony was the percussion arranger for the Pride of Mississippi
Marching Band and USM indoor percussion ensemble. Tony was also a
member of the World Champion Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps
(Bloomington, IN) from 1991-1993. In his three years of DCI
experience, he won the DCI-Midwest Solo Timpani Champion and the
1994 Percussive Arts Society International Solo Timpani Award.
Tony's original marimba composition "Of Thoughts and Thinking" has
become a standard in percussion literature. The piece was most
recently recorded by German percussion artist Cornelia Monkse on
the CD "Marimba 2" and was featured in the French documentary film
"Le Ciel." After college, Tony pursued a professional performance
career for eight years with the pop/rock band King Konga . While
with King Konga, Tony toured the world selling out venues
nationwide. The group did a post-September 11th USO tour for the US
Military in Hawaii and South East Asia. The four-piece band gained
critical acclaim reaching #81 on the AC Hot 100 Pop Charts with
"Something Good." With a rare accomplishment by an independent
band, King Konga captured the eyes and ears of many major
record labels and the band went on to perform at Woodstock '99.
Tony has also performed with The Mississippi Symphony, Mobile
Opera, Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera, and The Meistersingers
Orchestral/Choral Ensemble. Tony recently wrapped up a season as
the sound designer for The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps in
2018 and is the owner of Eidetic Creative, a multimedia creative
design solution business. He currently resides in Petal,
Mississippi with his wife Emily and 13-year-old daughter Colette.