Jeff Lindberg,
Artistic Director and Conductor,
represents a new breed of American conductors who are equally adept with
the literatures of the American jazz orchestra and the European symphony
orchestra. As well as holding the position of Artistic Director of the Chicago
Jazz Orchestra, Lindberg is Music Director of the Wooster Symphony
Orchestra in Ohio, now in its 88th season.
Co-founder of the Jazz Members Big Band in 1978, Lindberg is an active
transcriber of original jazz recordings and has received numerous
commissions from the Smithhsonian Institution for such work. His
transcriptions have been performed by such artists as Joe Williams, Clark
Terry, Gunther Schuller, and David Baker, and by such orchestras as the
Count Basie Orchestra, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the
Woody Herman Orchestra, and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.
Artistic Director and Conductor,
represents a new breed of American conductors who are equally adept with
the literatures of the American jazz orchestra and the European symphony
orchestra. As well as holding the position of Artistic Director of the Chicago
Jazz Orchestra, Lindberg is Music Director of the Wooster Symphony
Orchestra in Ohio, now in its 88th season.
Co-founder of the Jazz Members Big Band in 1978, Lindberg is an active
transcriber of original jazz recordings and has received numerous
commissions from the Smithhsonian Institution for such work. His
transcriptions have been performed by such artists as Joe Williams, Clark
Terry, Gunther Schuller, and David Baker, and by such orchestras as the
Count Basie Orchestra, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the
Woody Herman Orchestra, and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.
In 1993, two of Lindberg's transcriptions were performed at The White
House by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Lindberg recently
was commissioned by the Billy Strayhorn estate to transcribe recordings of
the composer's works that are presently unpublished. As a symphonic and
jazz conductor Lindberg has performed with such artists as Misha Dichter,
William Warfield, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Milton Hinton, Clark Terry,
and Joe Williams.
A Professor of Music at The College of Wooster in Ohio, Lindberg is a
graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School and holds Bachelor and
Master of Music Education degrees from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He received a Paul Harris Fellowship from Rotary
International for post-graduate study at the Academy of Music in Vienna and
a Conducting Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival.
Lindberg has conducted and produced three albums on the Sea Breeze
Jazz label, including the CD, The Jazz Members Big Band of Chicago:
diggin'in.
House by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Lindberg recently
was commissioned by the Billy Strayhorn estate to transcribe recordings of
the composer's works that are presently unpublished. As a symphonic and
jazz conductor Lindberg has performed with such artists as Misha Dichter,
William Warfield, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Milton Hinton, Clark Terry,
and Joe Williams.
A Professor of Music at The College of Wooster in Ohio, Lindberg is a
graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School and holds Bachelor and
Master of Music Education degrees from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He received a Paul Harris Fellowship from Rotary
International for post-graduate study at the Academy of Music in Vienna and
a Conducting Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival.
Lindberg has conducted and produced three albums on the Sea Breeze
Jazz label, including the CD, The Jazz Members Big Band of Chicago:
diggin'in.
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