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SUMMARY:Evening of Jazz
DESCRIPTION:For spring, the Alumni Lunchtime Lecture Series will feature an evening jazz lecture and performance. 

All alumni, faculty, students and friends are welcome to attend the free event on February 16, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel (Upper Lounge) at 520 Peach Street. Dr. Allen Zurcher and friends will perform .  

An RSVP is requested to Tracy Stolz, stolz005@gannon.edu or 814-871-7473.  Or, you may fill out the brief online registration by clicking the link above.

                                 About Dr. Zurcher 
Dr. Allen Zurcher has a wide and varied musical experience in his more than thirty years as a professional musician, composer, arranger and educator; including holding teaching positions in saxophone and jazz studies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA and Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA, where he was the program director for the Bill Evans jazz festival. Dr. Zurcher has been a saxophonist with the Erie Philharmonic and the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra as well as Music Dir. and bandleader for Premier and Princess Cruise Lines. He has performed with notable musicians and entertainers such as The Manhattan Transfer, Bryan Lynch, Conrad Herwig, Clark Terry, Don Menza, Vic DDeMon, and Diane Carroll. Allen can be heard on recordings Waiting in the Alley (2001) with Andy Nevala, For the Last Time (2001) with the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab I, and Armed and Dangerous (2008) with One World Tribe. 

Dr. Zurcher currently teaches music appreciation at Gannon University and jazz studies and music theory at Mercyhurst College; in addition to maintaining an active career as a performer and clinician in the Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York tri-state area. 

LOCATION:Upper Lounge
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