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Best College Jazz Instrumental Group, Down beat magazine Annual Student Music Awards Competition – 10 years Caelan Cardello: Winner, Sixth Annual BMI Future Jazz Master Award Walter Gorra: Down Beat Magazine Student Jazz Awards – Best Small Group Latin Jazz Composition Yu Nishiyama: ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards Mariela Versola: Down Beat Magazine Student Jazz Awards – Best Latin Jazz Group – College Graduate Winner Outstanding Combo, Outstanding Instrumentalist Awards: Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival - 7 years WPUNJ Sextet: $10,000 grand prize winner of Casio College Playoff held at The Bottom Line, New York City Winner, Jazz Combo Competition, First Annual Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, New York City WPUNJ Sextet: Award-winners at 4th Duke Ellington International Conference WPUNJ New Jazz Ensemble: Finalists in Southern Comfort "All That Jazz" national competition; Performances on National Public Radio and Public Television Gold Award: First Annual Down Beat MusicFest Student groups selected three times to perform at JVC Jazz Festival in New York City, including opening for Monty Alexander, outdoor concert for 25,000 attendees at Bryant Park, midtown Manhattan, and at 2007 10th anniversary concert. Numerous performances at IAJE International Conventions including performances with guest soloist Stanley Turrentine, in New York City, New Orleans, Washington, DC, Boston, and Miami, and at MENC National Conventions Jazz Room and Summer Jazz Week supported by over 20 consecutive years of grant support by New Jersey Arts Council, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts Judy Bady - Best Jazz Vocalist, Down Beat Student Jazz Awards Competition - 2 consecutive years and Outstanding Performance Award Three student bassists winners of Milt Hinton International Bass Scholarships Eight brass students awarded New York Brass Conference Scholarships
