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akua dixon
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Jazz cellist Akua Dixon's website features music, cds, bios, electronic press kit.
AKUA DIXON, Cellist-composer-Conductor, is a native of New York City . A graduate of the famed H.S. of Performing Arts, she studied cello with Benar Heifetz and composition with Rudolf Schramm. Akua studied bass concepts with ReggieWorkman and Jazz Practice Techniques with Jimmy Owens, at the Collective Black Artists Institution of Education.
She is the 1998 recipient of "The African American Classical Music Award", given by the Northern New Jersey Spelman Alumnae Association. Akua performs nationally and internationally at concert halls and colleges, public schools and libraries; at jazz festivals in Chicago , Hawaii , Berlin , St. Lucia, Tri-Sea, North Sea, Pori, Saalfelden, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadaloupe, and San Diego, etc. Her music for string quartet has been featured on an eight country, 26 concert tour of Europe and Scandinavia.
Among the many noted artists she has performed with a few are: Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach,Betty Carter, Ray Charles, Israel "Cachou" Lopez, Eubie Blake, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Bob Hope, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Liza Minnelli, etc. She has been engaged at many Broadway shows, including: Doonesbury, Barnum, La Cage aux Faux, Evita, Jerry's Girls, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cats, and Dreamgirls. Akua has appeared on New York Undercover with James Brown, Mary J. Blige, and B. B. King. Her first professional job was as a member of the famed Apollo Theatre Orchestra ...
AKUA DIXON, Cellist-composer-Conductor, is a native of New York City . A graduate of the famed H.S. of Performing Arts, she studied cello with Benar Heifetz and composition with Rudolf Schramm. Akua studied bass concepts with ReggieWorkman and Jazz Practice Techniques with Jimmy Owens, at the Collective Black Artists Institution of Education.
She is the 1998 recipient of "The African American Classical Music Award", given by the Northern New Jersey Spelman Alumnae Association. Akua performs nationally and internationally at concert halls and colleges, public schools and libraries; at jazz festivals in Chicago , Hawaii , Berlin , St. Lucia, Tri-Sea, North Sea, Pori, Saalfelden, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadaloupe, and San Diego, etc. Her music for string quartet has been featured on an eight country, 26 concert tour of Europe and Scandinavia.
Among the many noted artists she has performed with a few are: Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach,Betty Carter, Ray Charles, Israel "Cachou" Lopez, Eubie Blake, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Bob Hope, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Liza Minnelli, etc. She has been engaged at many Broadway shows, including: Doonesbury, Barnum, La Cage aux Faux, Evita, Jerry's Girls, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cats, and Dreamgirls. Akua has appeared on New York Undercover with James Brown, Mary J. Blige, and B. B. King. Her first professional job was as a member of the famed Apollo Theatre Orchestra ...
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Jazz cellist Akua Dixon's website features music, cds, bios, electronic press kit.
AKUA DIXON, Cellist-composer-Conductor, is a native of New York City . A graduate of the famed H.S. of Performing Arts, she studied cello with Benar Heifetz and composition with Rudolf Schramm. Akua studied bass concepts with ReggieWorkman and Jazz Practice Techniques with Jimmy Owens, at the Collective Black Artists Institution of Education.
She is the 1998 recipient of "The African American Classical Music Award", given by the Northern New Jersey Spelman Alumnae Association. Akua performs nationally and internationally at concert halls and colleges, public schools and libraries; at jazz festivals in Chicago , Hawaii , Berlin , St. Lucia, Tri-Sea, North Sea, Pori, Saalfelden, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadaloupe, and San Diego, etc. Her music for string quartet has been featured on an eight country, 26 concert tour of Europe and Scandinavia.
Among the many noted artists she has performed with a few are: Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach,Betty Carter, Ray Charles, Israel "Cachou" Lopez, Eubie Blake, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Bob Hope, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Liza Minnelli, etc. She has been engaged at many Broadway shows, including: Doonesbury, Barnum, La Cage aux Faux, Evita, Jerry's Girls, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cats, and Dreamgirls. Akua has appeared on New York Undercover with James Brown, Mary J. Blige, and B. B. King. Her first professional job was as a member of the famed Apollo Theatre Orchestra ...
AKUA DIXON, Cellist-composer-Conductor, is a native of New York City . A graduate of the famed H.S. of Performing Arts, she studied cello with Benar Heifetz and composition with Rudolf Schramm. Akua studied bass concepts with ReggieWorkman and Jazz Practice Techniques with Jimmy Owens, at the Collective Black Artists Institution of Education.
She is the 1998 recipient of "The African American Classical Music Award", given by the Northern New Jersey Spelman Alumnae Association. Akua performs nationally and internationally at concert halls and colleges, public schools and libraries; at jazz festivals in Chicago , Hawaii , Berlin , St. Lucia, Tri-Sea, North Sea, Pori, Saalfelden, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadaloupe, and San Diego, etc. Her music for string quartet has been featured on an eight country, 26 concert tour of Europe and Scandinavia.
Among the many noted artists she has performed with a few are: Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach,Betty Carter, Ray Charles, Israel "Cachou" Lopez, Eubie Blake, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Bob Hope, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Liza Minnelli, etc. She has been engaged at many Broadway shows, including: Doonesbury, Barnum, La Cage aux Faux, Evita, Jerry's Girls, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cats, and Dreamgirls. Akua has appeared on New York Undercover with James Brown, Mary J. Blige, and B. B. King. Her first professional job was as a member of the famed Apollo Theatre Orchestra ...
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