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Clinician: DOUG BEACH
DOUG BEACH's career
encompasses many facets of the music world, including performer,
publisher, teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. He is the founder of Doug
Beach Music, one of the leading publishers of educational jazz music in
the world today. As a composer, he has been commissioned to write numerous
pieces for high school all-state groups, most recently for Alabama,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Delaware.
Under Professor
Beach's direction, the Elmhurst College Jazz Band has frequently toured
Europe, twice at the invitation of the U.S. State Department, and appeared
with countless jazz greats. Among his many awards are a 1995 ASCAP award
in composition and a Grammy for the New York Voices recording of his
arrangement of "Cottontail."
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