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Changing of the Guard at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
On October 23, Ted Nash – having toured the world playing alto, soprano and tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass…
Clarinetist, saxophonist and educator Victor Goines has been appointed as director of jazz studies and professor of music at the Northwestern University School of Music. Goines will join Northwestern’s music faculty in spring 2008.
Goines served as artistic director of the Jazz Studies Program at the Juilliard School in New York for the past seven years. He also actively tours with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
“Our two-year search has resulted in the identification of the ideal candidate—an internationally recognized artist,” said Toni-Marie Montgomery, dean of the Northwestern School of Music. “I am confident that Victor Goines will transform the Northwestern jazz program, making it a center for the performance and study of jazz, and a source of pride for the School of Music, the University, and the Evanston and Chicago area communities.”
Goines leads his own quartet and quintet, recording New Adventures and Love Dance, both on Criss Cross, with the groups. More info:music.northwestern.edu
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