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RCS Music Coordinator Selected as All-County Jazz Guest Conductor

(October 16, 2012) RCS K-12 Music Department Coordinator and High School Band Director Scott Andrews has been selected as the guest conductor of this year’s Greene County Music Educator Association All-County Sr. Jazz Ensemble for the association’s Fall All-County Festival.

The festival will be held on Wednesday and Friday, Oct. 24 and 26 at Hunter-Tannersville High School., and will culminate in a public performance at 7:30 p.m. by four All-County groups: the Senior Jazz Ensemble, Elementary Chorus, Junior Band and Senior Chorus.

Mr. Andrews has taught music at RCS for 30 years and has been active as a guest conductor for many years throughout several counties. Andrews came to RCS in January of 1983 and, in his first six months with the district, taught at the middle school, A.W. Becker and Pieter B. Coeymans. He spent 23 years teaching at the middle school before coming to the high school. Now in his eight year there, directs the concert band and jazz ensemble and serves as the K-12 music coordinator. Before joining the RCS faculty, Andrews was director of the Siena College Jazz ensemble. Under his direction, the group’s 1984 performance was voted one of the top ten jazz performances for both professional and amateur groups in the Capital Region by the local media. His numerous guest-conducting appearances have included festivals in Albany, Green, Rensselaer, Columbia, Schoharie and Hamilton counties, and he has also served as president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the Greene County Music Educators Association.

“It is an honor to be asked to come back again to work with the students of Greene County” said Andrews. “There are many talented area students who excel in music and to get them all together at a county music festival is a lot of work and a lot of fun. I will enjoy having the opportunity to work with all of them.”

The GCMEA Fall All-County concert at Hunter-Tannersville begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for students and seniors and $6 for families.

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