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Performing Arts Library Special Collections in Performing Arts ABA Research Center 
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Ostwald Award Archives
Winner 1973: Robert Jager, Sinfonietta
Winner 1968: Robert Jager, Diamond Variations [See an example]
Winner 1964: Robert Jager, Symphony for Band
Biography:
Robert Jager was born in Binghamton, New York in 1939 and studied music at the University of Michigan. From 1963-1965, while serving in the United States Navy, he was an arranger at the Armed Forces School of Music. Currently, he is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Academic Studies in the Department of Music and Art at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee.Jager is a widely commissioned and performed composer with over one hundred published works to his credit, including compositions for band, chorus, orchestra, and various chamber ensembles. He has also composed a musical theater work, Lysistrata. He has received commissions from some of the finest performing organizations in the world, including the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, the Republic of China Band Association, the United States Air Force, Marine, Army and Army Field bands and others. He has conducted and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the Republic of China, and his music has been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony, the Bryan Symphony Orchestra of Tennessee, and the Minot Symphony.
He has won a number of awards for his music, including the National School Orchestra Association's Roth Award, the Kappa Kappa Psi's Distinguished Service to Music Medal (1973), the 1975 Friends of Harvey Gaul Bicentennial Competition, the 1976 American School Band Director's Association's Volkwein Award, the National Band Association's Citation of Excellence (1978), the Distinguished Service Award from Purdue University (1979), the Orpheus Award from Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (1980), the Sudler Order of Merit from the John Philip Sousa Foundation (1985), and the Citation With Distinction from the University of Michigan Band Alumni Association in 1985. In 1986, he received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship to compose at the Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and in 1996, he received the Individual Artist Fellowship in Composition from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Jager is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the American Bandmasters Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Phi, the Minnesota Composers Forum, and an honorary member of the Women Band Director's National Association.
Source:
Correspondence with the composer.
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