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GVSU High School Honors Band

21st Annual Grand Valley State University High School Honors Band

Grand Valley State University and the Department of Music is proud to host the 21st Annual Grand Valley State University High School Honors Band. This ensemble boasts some of the best musical talents from across the state of Michigan! If you are interested in being a part of the 2012 GVSU Honors Band please fill out the application and director recommendation sheet, as well as provide a CD of you playing a portion of a solo or etude to help in the audition process. Applications must be postmarked no later than Devember 16, 2011. 

Click here to Download Honors Band Application

About the Guest Conductor:

The conductor of this fine ensemble will be Robert Jorgensen. He is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at The University of Akron.  He also serves as Assistant Director of the School of Music.  Under his direction, The University of Akron Symphonic Band has been invited to perform at ten conferences of the Ohio Music Education Association, the 1992 conference of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) in East Lansing, Michigan, the 1998 CBDNA conference in Kansas City, Missouri, the 2003 American Bandmasters Association Convention at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, and the 2004 CBDNA conference at the Cincinnati Conservatory/College of Music.  The Symphonic Band also performed at Severance Hall in Cleveland in April 2003.

Professor Jorgensen has been widely honored as a music educator and band conductor.  He received the Outstanding Bandmasters Award from the International Assembly of Phi Beta Mu, International Bandmasters Fraternity, at the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, in 1999.  He received the Citation of Excellence Award from the National Band Association in 1981 and the A. Frank Martin Award from Kappa Kappa Psi in 1992.  In 1991, Mr. Jorgensen was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and currently serves as Immediate Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of this organization. He is also Past President of the Mid-American Conference Band Directors Association.

Mr. Jorgensen earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree from Michigan State University, where he was a student of Leonard Falcone and Kenneth Bloomquist.  From 1969-1972, he was euphonium soloist with the United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C.  Prior to joining the faculty at The University of Akron in 1987, Professor Jorgensen was on the faculty at Morehead State University, Kentucky, and was Director of Bands at Midwestern State University, Texas.  His concert band in Texas performed for the Texas Music Educators Association convention and the Texas Bandmasters Association convention.