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Jazz area racks in many awards at Elmhurst College Jazz Festival

The jazz studies area received many awards at the thirty-sixth annual Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in February 2003. Approximately fifty jazz bands from various colleges and universities throughout the Midwest competed in the competition at Elmhurst College in Illinois. MSU Jazz Band I was awarded outstanding recognition, and the following seven MSU Jazz Studies students won individual awards for outstanding recognition:

Benjamin Williams, bass

Patrick Terbrack, alto saxophone

Robert Stringer, trombone

Kristopher Johnson, trumpet

Mitch Gable, lead trumpet

Thaddeus Dixon, drums

Jason Demmon, trumpet

The Elmhurst College Jazz Festival is a professionally judged competition that emphasizes education in that judges conduct clinics and critique the performances.

Awards are presented to outstanding ensembles, individual musicians, student composers, and arrangers. Representative bands, combos and vocalists that are designated ‘outstanding’ are invited to play at the Awards Night Concert, which took place Sunday, February 23 this year.