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Martin Norgaard has performed in Austin & Nashville and throughout the country with his own jazz trio, the acoustic fusion band Acoustic Room and with artists as diverse as Buddy Spicher, Terri Clark, Matt King, Matt Dowling and Rich McCready among many others. Norgaard taught jazz and commercial strings at Belmont University and Vanderbilt University in Nashville for six years, and was director of the Belmont Jazz String Quartet and Jazz String Septet, which were featured at IAJE 2001, MENC 2002 and ASTA 2003. Norgaard holds bachelor s and master s degrees in jazz performance from William Paterson University, and Queens College in New York, where he studied with Rufus Reid, Hal Galper, Jimmy Heath and others. Norgaard holds a Ph.D. in Music and Human Learning at the University of Texas at Austin.