{"id":2648,"date":"2017-10-04T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2017-10-05T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T18:16:51","slug":"spotlight-on-alumni-jerry-a-bracey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/2017\/10\/04\/spotlight-on-alumni-jerry-a-bracey\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Alumni: Jerry A. Bracey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Professor Jerry A. Bracey<\/strong> (’82 MME) \u00a0continues to impress audiences with his interpretation of the standard orchestra and band repertoire, his exceptional affinity for 20th<\/sup> Century music and his command of a broad jazz repertoire.\u00a0 Maestro Bracey\u2019s extensive commitment to the organizations with which he has been affiliated has garnered him a reputation as an orchestra and band builder.\u00a0 Bracey joined the faculty at Hampton University as Assistant Professor of Music and Assistant Director of Bands in the fall of 1996.\u00a0 In 1998, he was appointed Director of the Jazz Ensemble and Conductor of the University Orchestra. Additionally, he is the founder of Hampton University Chamber Orchestra student- based ensemble.\u00a0 Since his appointment marked the first time that one artist held both musical posts at Hampton University. He serves as Coordinator of the Hampton University Music Enrichment Program for Youth (HUM), Instrumental Area Coordinator and Coordinator for the Annual Week of Jazz, Acknowledged for Excellence as a Distinguished Educator in Who\u2019s Who Among America\u2019s Teachers and Sutton Who\u2019s Who in Academia.\u00a0 He is in demand as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator.<\/p>\n

Prior to his arrival at Hampton University, he served as Director of Bands in Tensas Parish Public Schools, Jackson Public School District and Dougherty County School System.\u00a0 Under his guidance and experience, the Jazz Ensemble, Symphonic, Concert and Marching Bands received numerous awards, and superior ratings on the local, state and national level.\u00a0 He also served as the Conductor of the Dougherty Country Youth Symphony Orchestra of Albany, GA.<\/p>\n

An important aspect of Bracey\u2019s career has been his close connection to student musicians.\u00a0 He holds degrees from Jackson State University, Northeast Louisiana University, and further studies at the Nice Academic Internationale D\u2019ete in Nice, France.\u00a0 While abroad in Europe, he studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux, Ferdinand Quaptocchi; and viola with Christos Michalakakos.\u00a0 During his studies at Northeast Louisiana University, he studied with Joseph Cleveland, a student of William Primrose.<\/p>\n

Bracey is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi honorary Band Fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Music Education National Conference (MENC), American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association (ASTA) and (NSOA), International Conductor Guild, National Band Association and the College Orchestra Director Association.<\/p>\n

He was the first African American to become a member of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra. Bracey\u2019s performance credits include appointments with the Mississippi Symphony, Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Greenville Symphony, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Ruston Civic Orchestra and the Opera\/South Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Conducting highlights include productions of Handel\u2019s Messiah and Antonio Vivaldi Magnificent in G minor, Bracey also severed as Musical Director for Hampton University Little Theatre productions of The Broadway show\u2019s GREASE, Smokey Joe\u2019s Caf\u00e9 and DREAMGIRLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Jerry A. Bracey (’82 MME) \u00a0continues to impress audiences with his interpretation of the standard orchestra and band repertoire, his exceptional affinity for 20th Century music and his command of a broad jazz repertoire.\u00a0 Maestro Bracey\u2019s extensive commitment to the organizations with which he has been affiliated has garnered him a reputation as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}