The guest artist will be NIU faculty member and jazz bass teacher Marlene Rosenberg. NIU is the elected state Illinois Collegiation Music Educators Association chapter for 1999-2001. Promoting Diversity in Our Schools. The Keynote Address will be given by NIU alum Mrs. Dorothy Kometani Kittaka. While this conference is directed toward collegiate students, there may be room for additional participants.
Admission is free.
This event is sponsored in part by Jazz Studies and The Campus Activities Board. Matt Moore '98 was recently appointed to the position of head band director at Jacobs High School in Algonquin Illinois School District 300. He has approximately 140 students in the program and directs the Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Beginning Jazz Band and the Golden Eagle Marching Band. Trey Devey, '95 tells us that he entered the American Symphony Orchestra League Fellowship Program after graduating in 1995 and worked at the orchestras of Pittsburgh, New York, and Fort Worth for their 95-96 season. He stayed in Fort Work for a year in the development department and was recruited to Syracuse, NY, to work as the Orchestra's Director of Development.