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REX CADWALLADER is an active composer, pianist and educator. Currently Director of Performing Arts at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Connecticut, he has served as Assistant Directof of Jazz Studies at the University of Texas in Arlington, Assistant Director of Jazz Studies at the Unviversity of Northern Colorado, has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, at Marlborough Colege in Marlborough England, at Southern Connecticut State University and at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven. He received his Doctor of Arts Degree in Composition and Music Theory from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, and his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Composition Degrees from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. As a jazz educator, Dr. Cadwallader has been a guest artist, clinician and adjudicator at festivals throughout the United States and England. His performing groups have received national awards and have appeared at numerous state music association conventions and at the annual convention of the International Association of Jazz Educators. He is also a contributing author of a new book on American popular music entitled, C's Wonderful, C's Marvelous - An American Popular Song Reader, to be released by Greenwood Press the summer of 2001. He received an Emmy Award in 1999 for his original score for "The Connecticut River: A Journey Through Time," a Connecticut Public Television Special, an Emmy Award Nomination in 1998 for his socre for Connecticut for All Seasons, another CPTV presentation, composition and performance awards from downbeat magazine, compositional study grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has over sixty published compositions for big band, jazz combo and vocal jazz ensembles. An album recorded with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Great Britain, Big Band Christmas, received an Album of the Year Award from the British Music Retailers Association in 1992. In Connecticut he has written theme and production music for The Faith Middleton Show, for which he served as an associate producer, on Connecticut Public Radio and for many original productions of Connecticut Public Television. His most recent CD, The Art of Trio, with bassist David Chevan (and Ali Ryerson, flute; Giacomo Gates, vocal; Tim Moran, alto sax; Jim Fryer, trombone and Stacy Phillips, Dobro) was released in October 2000. The preceding CD, Repartee, also with bassist David Chevan, was released in January 2000. His new solo piano CD, Love Song for Nancy, featuring jazz standards will be released in the winter of 2001 on the Stanza USA label, and a recent CD of original contemporary jazz with drummer Rich MacDonald entitled, The Cadwallader/MacDonald Project - Your Smile, was released in 1998 on Jaybird Records.
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