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Clinician:
THOMAS STREETER
TOM STREETER is the director of the jazz program and Professor of Music at
Illinois Wesleyan University in
Bloomington, Illinois. As the founder of the jazz program at IWU he has developed jazz studies courses and
conducts the two jazz ensembles. His duties also include serving as department head of the instrumental department,
and the teaching of low brass students. His interest in music-related computer technology has earned him several
University grants both to learn new music software applicable to jazz arranging, to assist in preparing a computer
multimedia program for his jazz history course using current multi-media software, and to create a computer practice
lab for improvisation. He team taught an introduction to multimedia course in the University's May term, and an
Introduction to Technology and Jazz Pedagogy for music education majors. His computer interests have also led him
to create and maintain the School of Music Web pages.
Dr. Streeter holds both bachelors and masters degrees from Indiana University and a doctorate from the
Catholic
University of America. His doctoral work was accomplished while a member of the internationally acclaimed USAF
Jazz Band "The Airmen of
Note" stationed at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. His performance
credentials on bass trombone also include extended tours with Henry Mancini and Andy Williams, plus
performances with the Jimmy Dorsey Band, and the Nelson Riddle
Orchestra. He has recorded an album "Music
for the Bass Trombone" on the Kendor
Label. In May of 1999 he and his IWU Jazz Ensemble performed for and
were the guests of the Bloomington / Normal sister city committee in Asahikawa,
Japan.
For a number of years, Dr. Streeter was the program director of the Birch Creek Music Center jazz sessions in
Door County, Wis., and led the "Academy Band" in concerts in the renovated barn, which acts as the Center's
unique performance venue. After two years away from Birch Creek, he returned the summers of 99 and 2000 to
again lead the Academy Band, and to help produce a CD, commemorating the 25th year of the Music Center. He
also continues on the jazz staff of the annual Bands of America Summer
Symposium. Dr. Streeter was one of the
founders and the first treasurer of the International Trombone
Association, and he is the Mid-west Region
Coordinator for the International Association of Jazz
Educators. He continues a busy clinic and adjudication
schedule throughout the nation.
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