Each year DownBeat Magazine recognizes outstanding ensembles, performers, composers in the jazz area with the Student Music Awards. This year the Jazz Studies department won 7 awards in this national competition.

LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Graduate College Winner UNC
Jazz Lab Band I
Dana Landry, Director

 LARGE VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Graduate College Outstanding Performance
UNC Jazz Vocal Lab
Brennan Baglio, Director

VOCAL JAZZ SOLOIST

Graduate College Outstanding Performance
Amanda Roswick
Brennan Baglio, Professor

ORIGINAL COMPOSITION LARGE ENSEMBLE

Graduate College Outstanding Composition
Greg Weis, “The Imitator”
Drew Zaremba, Professor

OUTSTANDING SOLOIST

Marc Schwartz, Alto Saxophone
Marc Schwartz Quartet
Andrew Dahlke, Professor

OUTSTANDING SOLOIST

Zach Rich, Trombone
Matteo Sabattini Septet
Drew Zaremba, Professor

BLUES/POP/ROCK SOLOIST

Undergraduate College Outstanding Soloist
Samantha Costigan, Vocalist
Brennan Baglio, Professor