Beloit Memorial High School awarded Madison Jazz Society Grant

Madison Jazz Socity Awarded Grants

In November, the Madison Jazz Society awarded grants totaling $5,150 from its School Grant Fund to music programs in thirteen Wisconsin schools. The grants are funding jazz centered programs designed to help students learn about and perform jazz.

In announcing the awards, MJS President Linda Marty Schmitz stated, “We are very proud that the money awarded this year and since the program began in 1989 brings the total amount of scholarships and grants awarded by our all-volunteer group to over $113,000. We are pleased that these grants will assist students from all over Wisconsin now and in years to come. We are thrilled to see that many schools throughout the state are working to provide opportunities for their students to learn about America’s original art form – jazz.”

Beloit Memorial High School (Chris Behrens, director) was awarded $475 to underwrite the Jeff Hamilton Clinical Master Class/Performance.

Other grants were awarded to Belleville High School (Stephanie Meier, Director) — $350 to purchase jazz charts for their annual “Jazz In the Park” program; DeForest Area High School (Brandon Bautz, director) – $475 to underwrite student participation in the UW-Stevens Point Jazz Festival; Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School (Brenda Gauchel, director) – $375 to underwrite the costs of the second annual Red Hawk Jazz Festival that the G-E-T Jazz Band will sponsor for smaller schools in their area; Jefferson Middle School (Rob Cunningham, director) –

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$200 to purchase charts for the school’s jazz library; Jefferson High School (Kathy Tuinstra-Schereck, director) – $500 to purchase vocal jazz charts; Juda Schools (Greg Smith, director) – $500 to help purchase a mixing console to replace one that is broken; Menomonie High School (Jacob Karkula, director) – $475 to underwrite cost of clinicians and guest artists for a jazz clinic for the jazz band students; Middleton: Sauk Trail Elementary School (John Becker, director) – $250 to underwrite the “Making Jazz Music Child’s Play” program; Oshkosh Merrill Middle School (Charles Bauer, director) – $125 to purchase charts for jazz ensemble library; Oshkosh: Webster Stanley Middle School (Brad Curran, director) – $475 to underwrite “Jazz-O-Rama” during Jazz Appreciation Month; Sun Prairie: Prairie View Middle School (Ann Sederquist, director) – $450 to underwrite a drum/rhythm section instructor and Wisconsin Dells High School (Matthew Roble, director) – $450 to help refurbish jazz band instruments.

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