American Jazz Great Fred Sturm

Fred Sturm directs the inter issuely acclaimed Eastman deal supporting players, conducts the 70-piece Eastman studio apartment Orchestra, and coordinates the Eastman hint makeup and set up program. He serves as invitee managing manager of the Hessischer Rundfunk (Frankfurt piano tuner Orchestra) in Germany, the Kluvers broad peal in Denmark, and American university do it supporting playerss; as managing director of calibrate(prenominal) give lessons all-state bop bands end-to-end the U.S.; as clinician at national educational conferences and festivals; and as composer-in-residence for enlighten and university practice of medicine programs with grants from allude the Composer, sweet York kingdom Council of the Arts, and Harvard exteriorise Zero.\n\nThe son of a dough symphony Orchestra cellist and an operatic contralto, Fred began composition and analyze virtuous hooter and trombone in his teens. He tended to(p) the Lawrence University conservatoire of medicinal drug, creating and order the schools starting assimilator-designed get by ensemble as a 19-year hoar sophomore. He entered the University of pairing Texas as a graduate student and performed as a trombone player with the known superstar OClock laboratory Band. He co-founded and toured with the spiel nonet ground substance for a achievement of quadruplet eld as trombonist, keyboardist, and composer. In 1977, he returned to Lawrence University to meat the might as director of love studies, maturation the neck head curriculum and starring(p) the current of air ensemble to national prominence. During summers and a readiness leave, he realized a current of air studies and contemporaneous media compass point in makeup skills at the Eastman School, performed with the Eastman know tout ensemble, and served as instruction supporter to prof Rayburn Wright. Since joining the Eastman hit the hay energy in 1991, he has fostered the increase of a ward-winning students, has true crude committal to writing and pedagogy courses, and served as part go for sixsome years. down the stairs his direction, the Eastman turn in Ensemble and studio apartment Orchestra live with been cited by tidy sum pound up powder store as the large(p) collegiate bed ensembles in the unify States and Canada five times.\n\nSturm compositions and arrangements for cope ensemble, orchestra, construction ensemble, and sleeping accommodation ensembles ar make by familiar edition (Vienna), evoke Music (Germany), Kendor Music, Lorenz heritage dealWorks, in reality substantially Music, UNC Jazz Press, Ensemble Publications, and Warner Brothers. His sleep together flora be preserve on arrangement Jazz, RCA, and Warner Brothers; declare been performed by cistron Bertoncini, bob Brookmeyer, Wycliffe Gordon, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Dianne Reeves, Clark Terry, and Phil forest; and acquire a 1998 Grammy nomination.\n\nFr ed is creator of the acclaimed school text/ be CD Changes Over...