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Robert D. Jorgensen
rdj2@uakron.edu
Robert D. Jorgensen is
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.
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