Willard Warch

Willard Warch (1909 – October 12, 2002) was a schoolmaster at Punahou School in Honolulu, HI, first cello with the Honolulu Symphony and a Professor of Music and Theory at Oberlin College for 30 years.

Warch was a member of the Oberlin Orchestra cello section from 1927–31 and a student at Oberlin College. In 1931, he graduated, having earned both the B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees at Oberlin. Throughout World War II, Warch served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a member of the Army Air Corps Band stationed in England. He authored five music study textbooks as well as Our First 100 Years; a brief history of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.