# Bill Stevens has performed in various Jazz clubs, festivals and music conferences: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/03/29/bill-stevens-has-performed-in-various-jazz-clubs-festivals-and-music-conferences-video/
- Published: 2018-03-29T00:02:30+01:00
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**29.03. – Happy Birthday !!! Bill Stevens (composer, trumpet and flugelhorn) received
a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Fredonia State University in 
1978 and a Masters degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Miami in 1980.**

Bill has performed professionally in Miami, Florida; upstate New York; New York 
City, San Francisco and Seattle, Washington. He has performed with Billy Eckstine,
Earl ‘fatha’ Hines, Spyro Gyra, Ira Sullivan, Denis DiBlasio, Randy Johnston, Ronnie
Leigh, Julian Priester, Brad Shepik, Chuck Metcalf, Marc Seales, Bob Meyer, John
Bishop, Owen Howard, Dom Minasi, Pete McCann, Ben Gramm, Josh Sinton, Ben Rosenblum,
Brian Woodruff and ensembles under his own name including currently the Bill Stevens
Group, the Bill Stevens, Rich Russo, Gary Fogel Trio, the Bill Stevens Songbook 
and Standard Time Ensemble. Additionally, Bill performs in the Brass Quartet – As
Though I Had Wings, the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble and the New York Jazz Workshop
Big Band.

Bill has been the recipient of performance and composition grants from the Seattle
Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Music
Center. He has been a guest speaker with the Joint Research Centres Conference at
the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway in 2017 and with the Australasian
Jazz & Improvisation Research Network in 2018 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Since 1990, in New York City, Bill has performed in various Jazz clubs, festivals
and music conferences. He has studied with Elliott Topalian, Herbert W. Harp, Gilbert
Johnson, Randy Brecker, Jack Walrath, Laurie Frink and with bassist Joe Solomon.
In the 1990’s he received a Masters in Education Administration from New York University
and has recently retired as the Assistant Principal-Administration/Organization 
and the Supervisor of Performing Arts studios, as well as the Director of Jazz Studies
at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens.

As of September 2016, Bill directed and coordinated Jazz programing for the Brooklyn
Conservatory of Music, the Lucy Moses School and the New York Jazz Workshop. Bill
Stevens lives in New York City with his wife Laura and their son Mil.

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