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TMEA SELECTED PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLES // THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017 R. Winston Morris 12:00 –12:50 PM | TENNESSEE TECH TUBA ENSEMBLE R. Winston Morris, Director Presidential Ballroom D Currently celebrating their 50th year, the award-winning Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble is one of if not the most successful performing collegiate ensembles in history. The TTTE was recently selected by The Tennessee Board of Regents to receive the prestigious TBR Academic Excellence and Quality Award. TTTE is very proud to be the only performing ensemble in the state of Tennessee to receive this award. Recognized internationally as the leading group of its kind, the TTTE has an enviable record of twenty-seven recording projects (the most recent recordings on the Mark Records label were submitted and accepted by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to be included on its “Grammy Entry List.”), eight Carnegie Hall appearances, two World’s Fairs performances, numerous national and international conference engagements, a 49- year history of performances from Preservation Hall in New Orleans to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and is responsible for the composition and arrangement of more music for the tuba than any other single source. Founded in 1967 by R. Winston Morris, the TTTE and Morris established and defined the standards for tuba ensemble performance practices and have inspired the formation of like groups all over the world. The subject of several doctoral dissertations, the TTTE most recently enjoyed wide- spread exposure via a nationally broadcast PBS documentary titled TUBA U: Basso Profundo and the publication by Scarecrow Press of “The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and R. Winston Morris: a 40th Anniversary Retrospective” by Charles McAdams and Richard Perry. R. Winston Morris has been internationally recognized for the past 50 years as one of the leaders in the advancement of the tuba and is considered the “elder statesman” of tuba professors in the United States. He is Professor of Music and Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at Tennessee Tech University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. His students are historically successful in the field of music education, as award-winning professional musicians, and in other music-based professions and non-music professions. In 1967, Morris organized and founded the, now internationally renowned, Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (TTTE). The TTTE has performed extensively throughout the eastern half of the U.S. They have performed at regional, national, and international symposia and workshops sponsored by the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association, the International Tuba Euphonium Association the International Brass Congress, the Music Educators National Conference and other organizations. The Ensemble has, to date, 27 commercially produced recording projects that have received the highest accolades from members of the music profession and have received Grammy Award recognitions. They have performed throughout the eastern half of the United States in such venues as Bourbon Street and at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Disney World, the National MENC Conference in Chicago, the International T.U.B.A. Conference in Austin, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and eight unprecedented Carnegie Recital Hall performances. The TTTE is responsible for more arrangements and compositions for tuba ensemble and the euphonium and tuba than any other single source while providing the inspiration and leadership for the formation of such ensembles internationally. 46 | 2017 TMEA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
TMEA SELECTED PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLES // THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017 Andrew Lynn Jazmin Jordan 1:00 –1:50 PM | STEWARTS CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND Andrew Lynn & Jazmin Jordan, Conductors Presidential Ballroom AE Stewarts Creek Middle School opened its doors in 2006. During its short history, the SCMS Band program has continued to grow and consistently includes over 200 students each year. Recently, the SCMS Seventh and Eighth Grade Advanced Band received its second invitation to perform for the Tennessee Music Education Association state professional development conference that takes place at Gaylord Opryland in April, 2017. The band first earned this distinction for the 2013 conference in Chattanooga. Over the past eleven years, the band has earned all Superior ratings at the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association’s Concert Performance Assessment and has been recognized with multiple Sweepstakes Awards from the Tennessee Bandmasters Association and Awards of Distinction from the American School Band Directors Association. SCMS Band students have been accepted into All-Midstate Bands, All-County Bands, and other auditioned bands and orchestras. SCMS Band alumni have become top performers in their high school bands and have been accepted into All-State Band, Governor’s School for the Arts, the Macys All-American Marching Band, and the U.S. Army All-American Band. Andrew Lynn has served as band director at Stewarts Creek Middle School in Smyrna, Tennessee since the school opened in 2006. The SCMS Band program has had the honor of performing for the Tennessee Music Education Association convention and has been recognized with multiple Sweepstakes Awards from the Tennessee Bandmasters Association and Awards of Distinction from the American School Band Directors Association. Prior to his appointment in Rutherford County, he taught grades six through twelve in the Coffee County and Bedford County schools. Lynn is the founder and co-director of the Rising Stars Band Camp, a summer program for beginning band students.He is active in many professional organizations and serves as a guest clinician, festival judge, and low brass instructor. He has served on the executive board for the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association and is the chairperson for the All-Midstate Middle School Jazz Band. He is a member of Phi Beta Mu honorary music fraternity as well as the American School Band Directors Association and has been awarded two Citations of Excellence from the National Band Association. Lynn is a graduate of Tennessee Technological University where he studied tuba with R. Winston Morris. Since 2004, he has performed as the tubist for the Capitol Brass Quintet. He resides in Smyrna, Tennessee with his wife Beth, an elementary music educator, and his eleven-year-old son Carter. Lynn is a member of Northside Baptist Church in Murfreesboro where he plays in the church orchestra. Jazmin Jordan is band director at Stewarts Creek Middle School and Siegel Middle School in Rutherford County. Jordan earned her Bachelors Degree in Instrumental Music Education from Middle Tennessee State University where she graduated cum laude. In addition to performing in multiple MTSU ensembles, Jordan served as an orchestra assistant, head librarian, and personnel director for the MTSU Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2009. Additionally, she was the assistant coordinator for the American String Teacher’s Association’s annual workshop for Tennessee string educators in 2005. In 2005, Jordan began work as a woodwind instructor with Metro-Nashville Public Schools, Murfreesboro City Schools, and Bedford County Public Schools. During the TENNESSEE MUSIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | 47
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