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Fred Irby, III, is an acclaimed jazz professor, music director and trumpeter. He is from Mobile, AL and holds degrees from Grambling State University and Southern Illinois University. He is a Professor of Music at Howard University in Washington, DC and the director of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble[1]. Under Mr. Irby’s leadership, the HUJE has toured internationally and has 41 recordings [2][3]. Mr. Irby is Principal Trumpet of the Kennedy Center Opera House Musical Theater Orchestra.

Mr. Irby’s performances have included the orchestras for the Twentieth Century Fox movie Alvin and the Chipmunks, the ABC-TV hit show Dancing with the Stars, the NBC-TV show America's Got Talent, the 56th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 87th & 88th Academy Awards Gala (OSCARS), and the Kennedy Center Honors Gala and the Christmas in Washington Gala.

Mr. Irby received the 2008 downbeat magazine Achievement Award In Jazz Education and, also in 2008, was inducted into the Grambling State University Alumni Hall of Fame [4]. Mr. Irby also received the Disney Performing Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching Jazz in 2009 at the MENC Teaching Music Awards ceremony and was designated a Lowell Mason Fellow in 2010. In 2016, he received the Ronnie Wells Jazz Service Award and the Kennedy Center awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award.[5]

He holds active membership many music associations and orchestras[6] and has taught in the Department of Music at Howard University since 1974.[7][8] His complete bio can be accessed at the Howard University Jazz Ensemble’s website.[9]

  1. ^ http://www.howard.edu/campustour/life/arts/music/masters/fred-irby/Bio.htm
  2. ^ http://dakar.usembassy.gov/mobile//huje-jazz.html
  3. ^ http://www.bu.edu/wara/2013/06/06/warawarc-hbcushowardu/
  4. ^ http://www.thegramblinite.com/news/view.php/395909/16-members-to-be-inducted-into-Hall-of-F
  5. ^ https://freshpickeddeals.com/dcjazzfest.org/dcjazzfest-honors-howard-university-at-the-kennedy-center-1956611
  6. ^ http://dcjazzfest.org/night-kennedy-center-dc-jazzfest-salutes-howard-university-jazz
  7. ^ http://coas.howard.edu/music/facstaff/full-time/irby.html
  8. ^ http://www.kennedy-center.org/Artist/B10389
  9. ^ http://coas.howard.edu/music/huje/irby.htm
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