E. Edwin Moyers took his bachelor's and master's
degrees from the University of Cincinnati in violin
performance. While serving as orchestra conductor and
string teacher at Central College, Fayette, Missouri, he
studied summers with Joseph Fuchs at the Julliard
School in New York City. In 1949, he moved to Texas
A&I University in Kingsville, where he was orchestra
director, string and woodwind teacher, and director of
bands. During those years he started a string program
in the Kingsville schools, played violin in the Corpus
Christi Symphony, and organized and conducted the
Kingsville Civic Orchestra. Two years after he was
appointed to the faculty at Fort Hays State, he
organized the Western Kansas Orchestra Festival. He
managed the festival for the next twenty-six years until
his retirement in 1987. In 1968 he earned the Ph.D
degree from the University of Iowa. During his years at
Fort Hays State, Moyers served as conductor of the
College-Community Orchestra, was soloist and
concertmaster of the Hays Symphony. He was named
string teacher of the year for 1989 by the Kansas String
Teachers Association.