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Jacob Chmara
(saxophone alto et ténor / alto and tenor saxophone)
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Joseph Leblanc
(saxophone alto / alto saxophone)
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- Jacob Chmara is currently a freshman saxophone performance major studying at the University of Michigan under the mentoring of Donald Sinta. He attended the Interlochen Arts Camp in 1998, and again in 1999 as Floridas Emerson Electric Company Scholar. Chmara was the winner of the North American Saxophone Alliance Competition for the year 2000. Just recently, as the result of a live audition held in Miami, he was awarded "Level 1" status for NFAA's ARTS Week 2000. He was named the Best Performer at this year's University of Michigan Collage concert. Also this year, he was selected to collaborate with Arthur Weisburg in a performance of Milhaud's La Creation du Monde. His artistic endeavors have taken him to places as distant as Japan. His past studies have been with Kelland Thomas and Patrick Meighan.
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- Joseph LeBlanc made his orchestral debut at age 17 with the Honolulu Symphony. More recently he has played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. This past summer, as the Emerson Scholar from Hawaii he attended the Interlochen Arts Camp where he was a finalist in the concerto competition and was awarded prestigious Joseph Maddy Award. He recently won the Ann Arbor's Young Artist Competition.
- Joseph is currently at the University of Michigan studying with Donald Sinta.
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