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WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY HOLDS SUMMER HONOR BAND CONCERT William Paterson University in Wayne will present its second annual summer honor band concert featuring a 90-member ensemble of young band musicians from North Jersey high schools on Saturday, August 5 at 8 p.m. in Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus. Admission is free and open to the public. J. Craig Davis, director of bands at William Paterson, and Mindy Schierman, director of bands for the Millburn Township Public Schools, will conduct the concert. Student participants were selected by their high school band directors to represent their school. The program will include works by Reinike, Grainger, Walton, Smith and Shostakovich. Davis, an assistant professor of music at William Paterson, currently serves as director of the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra. He is also director of music admissions and recruitment, and brass coordinator for the University's music department. Davis holds a doctor of musical arts degree in trumpet performance from The Julliard School. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He is a resident of Hackensack. Schierman serves as band chairperson of New Jersey Music Educator's Region 1. William Paterson University, one of the nine state colleges and universities in New Jersey, offers 29 undergraduate and 17 graduate programs through five colleges: Arts and Communication, Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Science and Health. Located on 320 hilltop acres in Wayne, the University enrolls approximately 10,000 students and provides housing for nearly 2,000 students. The institution's 352 full-time faculty are highly distinguished and diverse scholars and teachers, many of whom are recipients of prestigious awards and grants from the Fulbright Program (24 scholars), the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. For additional information on the summer
honor band concert, please call Dr. J. Craig Davis at 973-720-3466. ###
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