Press Release – January 15, 2010

The Texas Community College Band Directors All-State Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensembles will present their annual concerts on Saturday, February 13, 2010, at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, in conjunction with the annual clinic/convention of the Texas Music Educators Association.

Talented community college students from all over the state of Texas, including your college, were selected through audition last fall for membership in the bands. While in San Antonio, they will participate in rehearsals with their clinicians, culminating in the concerts on Saturday, as well as being afforded the opportunity to attend one of the largest and most comprehensive music education clinic/conventions in the country.

The conductor for the All-State Symphonic Band is Dr. Gary Garner, retired, West Texas A&M University. The All-State Jazz Band clinician is Keith Winking, Texas State University.

Your college students selected to participate in the All-State Symphonic Band include name, classification, hometown, major. Your college students participating in the All-State Jazz Band include name, classification, hometown, major.

Additional information about the All-State concerts and the Texas Community College Band Directors Association can be found at www.TCCBDA.org.

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A link for downloading the TCCBDA logo and photographs to be used in conjunction with this press release may be found at the bottom of the www.TCCBDA.org home page (click“Media Information”).

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