Scott Bedio began playing a brass instrument at the age of seven in the Salvation Army. In 1989, he accompanied the National Capital Band on its tour of New Zealand and Australia as flag sergeant and all-around equipment mover, and that fall he joined the band as a member of the bass section, giving ten years of service. In 2010, Scott rejoined the band on B-flat bass. In addition to his service with the NCB, Scott was a staff member of the National Capital & Virginia Music Conservatory from 1990 through 1994, and has served as the Young People’s Bandmaster at the Fairfax Corps since 1991. His skills on the bass have earned him the nickname “Tuba Monster”.

A third-generation Salvationist, Scott’s parents were active local officers for many years at the Alexandria Citadel Corps. He grew up as an only child in a loving family in which God and Corps ministry was the center of life. He continues this today, with a love for the youth ministry at his home corps, with his wife, Sandy, who is the Family Life Center Director for the Fairfax Corps. They are the proud parents of Benjamin Luke Bedio. Scott is also employed by the Salvation Army, working at National Headquarters in the Archives and Records Department as the Archivist.

Scott’s life verse is Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”

Paul has a God-given, life-long love of music. As a very small child, he loved listening to and figuring out hymns and Christmas carols that he heard around the house and at church. Not surprisingly, sacred music has always had a special place in Paul’s heart. He was very fortunate to receive his first piano lessons from his aunt, the organist at the church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that their family helped to found in 1845. At eight years of age, while attending a concert of his future high school’s symphonic band, conducted by his future band director, teacher and life-long friend Donald K. Smith, Paul was first smitten with an undying love for trumpet and cornet, and brass music in general. This condition has made his former membership in the Salvation Army Baltimore Area Band, under Bandmaster Ron Smith, and his current membership in the National Capital Band personally very rewarding. The expression, “God created music because He likes it!” is a favorite, which makes Paul very grateful to be a musician.

Paul finds personal satisfaction in serving others, and especially in serving those who have served America. He has sounded Taps at many military funerals and wreath-laying ceremonies, half of which were performed as bugler for the United States Coast Guard Ceremonial Honor Guard, at Arlington National Cemetery and elsewhere. He greatly values his diverse musical and non-musical opportunities to serve America as an enthusiastic member of Team Coast Guard.

Paul received his bachelor’s degree in trumpet performance from the University of Maryland School of Music, where his teachers were Emerson Head and Chris Gekker. In addition to being an enthusiastic music teacher, Paul is an active free-lance musician. He resides in Crofton, Maryland with his wife, the former Jean Obear, a Pediatric Registered Nurse at Prince George’s Hospital Center, whom he first met in the University of Maryland Marching Band. Jean and Paul have two children: Michael, a sergeant in the United States Army, and Rebecca, an equestrian instructor.