Downbeat magazine named CCNY Jazz Graduate Ensemble 1 directed by Steve Wilson 2024 student winners.
The City College of New York Jazz Studies Graduate Ensemble 1 won the category of Graduate College Outstanding Performance by “Downbeat” magazine. Saxophonist Steve Wilson, director of CCNY Jazz Studies and associate professor, led the Ensemble to the win. The Ensemble included graduate students Matthias Meyer, Julian Brezon, Martin Locken, Nicolai Daneck, Nitzan Gavrieli, Daniel Nagel and Antonio Cerfeda. CCNY Jazz Studies is in the Division of Humanities and the Arts.
Wilson is an award-winning musician and has consistently placed in the “Downbeat" Magazine Critics and Readers Polls in the alto and soprano saxophone categories since 1997.
Students in the ensemble in the Master of Music program need 32 credits, including harmony, history, arranging/composition, ensemble, pedagogy & practicum, private instruction, and a final recital, to graduate.
The announcement was made in the June 2024 issue of the magazine.
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