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<b>Biographical Information</b><br><br>

Robert Jager was born in Binghamton, New York (1939), and is a graduate
of The University of Michigan.  Four four years he served in the United
State Navy as the Staff Arranger/Composer at the Armed Forces School of
Music.  Jager is now retired and is professor emeritus at Tennessee
Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. Jager's credits
comprise over 120 published works for band, orchestra, chorus, and
various chamber combinations.  He has received commissions from some of
the finest musical organizations in the world, including the Tokyo
Kosei Wind Orchestra, the Republic of China Band Association, the Minot
(ND) Symphony Orchestra, the Michigan State University Children's
Chorus, the Cumberland Children's Chorus, the universities of Arkansas,
Butler, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Nebraska
Wesleyan, Wright State University, the University of Dayton, Purdue,
the Tennessee Arts Commission, and all five of the Washington-based
military bands: Air Force, Army, Army Field Band, Marines and Navy.  In
addition, he has received grants from Meet the Composer, the Tennessee
Arts Commission, and the Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance
Program of the American Music Center.<br>
He has conducted and lectured throughout the United States, Canada,
Europe, Japan and the Republic of China.  Additionally, his music has
been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC,
the Nashville (TN) Symphony, the Charlotte (NC) Symphony, the New
England Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Mozart Players, the Bryan
Symphony Orchestra of Tennessee, the Minot (ND) Symphony, the Virginia
Symphony Orchestra of Norfolk, and the Omsk Philharmonic in Russia.
Jager has received many awards for his compositions, including being
the only three-time winner of the American Bandmasters Association
"Ostwald Award."  In addition, he has twice received the "Roth Award"
of the National School Orchestra Association, the Kappa Kappa Psi
"Distinguished Service to Music Medal" in the area of composition, the
"Friends of Harvey Gaul" bicentennial competition, the American School
Band Association's "Volkwein Award," and in 2000, his Dialogues for Two
Pianos won the keyboard category competition in the Delius Competition
sponsored by the Delius Association of Florida and Jacksonville
University.  In 1986, he received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship to
compose at the colony in Peterborough, NH.  In 1996, he received the
"Individual Artist Fellowship in Composition" from the Tennessee Arts
Commission, and in 1998, was selected to receive Tennessee Tech
University's highest faculty award, the "Caplenor Faculty Research
Award."  He is the first faculty member in the art to receive this
award.<br>
He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers (ASCAP), the American Bandmasters Association, Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Phi, and an "Honorary Member" of
the Women's Band Directors Association. <br><br>

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