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1998 MELS Award for Excellence in Creativity, Organization and Content, Music Education Launch Site, for Kelly Bucheger's Saxophone Pages.
1996 Honorable Mention: Small Group Composition, Jazz Composers Alliance (Boston) Composition Contest, for Chapter One.
1993 Best Jazz Group (for The Illicit Sextet), Minnesota Jazz Awards.
1990 Outstanding Composer, West Bank School of Music Jazz Composer Competition. Performed a concert of my jazz compositions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
1983 Outstanding Soloist Award, Eau Claire (WI) Jazz Festival.
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Satyrica, by Fredric Rzewski, for Jazz Ensemble. Performed at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.
Anthropology Chainsaw Massacre, by Kelly Bucheger, for The Illicit Sextet. Performed at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.
*.*, by Steve Kenny, interactive piece for jazz group & Sun Workstation Computer. Performed at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
Screams & Whimpers, by Stephen Chatman, for Saxophone Quartet. Performed at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.
Two Neo-Bops for Kelly, by Bruce Bethke, for saxophone and tape. Performance sponsored by the Minnesota Composers Forum.
Risks #25, by Tom Johnson, for mixed ensemble. Performed at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.
Voices, by Peter O'Gorman, for voices. Performed at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, sponsored by the Minnesota Composers Forum.
Strong Wind, by David Edminster, for narrator, saxophone, piano, and tape. Performed at the Weyerhauser Auditorium, Landmark Center, St. Paul.
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1991 Jazz from J to Z (St. Paul, MN), with The Illicit Sextet, for the Twin Cities Jazz Society.
1991 Eau Claire Jazz Festival (Eau Claire, WI), with The Illicit Sextet.
1985 Marcus & the Monster Tour (Denmark, Germany, Belgium). Featured soloist touring with Detroit trumpeter Marcus Belgrave & the Blue Lake Monster Jazz Band.
1983 Gehrden Jazztäge (Gehrden, Germany)
1980 Jazz Jamboree '80 (Warsaw, Poland). Featured soloist with the University of Wisconsin - River Falls Jazz Ensemble for a two-week tour of Poland, sponsored by the Polish Jazz Society.
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1993 KSJN-FM (Minnesota Public Radio), Morning Show, with The Illicit Sextet.
1993 KSJN-FM Jazz After Hours with Liegh Kammen, with The Illicit Sextet.
1993 KFAI-FM (Fresh Air Radio), guest host for 3-hour program on the life and music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus.
1991-92 St. Paul & Minneapolis Cable Television, A Nice Legacy, video focusing on compositional influences of The Illicit Sextet.
1990 St. Paul & Minneapolis Cable Television, West Bank School of Music Jazz Composition Winners, performance video of Walker Arts Center concert of my jazz compositions.
1990 KBEM-FM, Twin Cities Jazz Spotlight, interview.
1989 KTCJ-AM Jazz On Sunday, interview.
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Ongoing: Private instruction in saxophone performance; jazz improvisation (for all instruments); jazz theory.
Ongoing: Jazz Faculty, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Twin Lakes, MI.
1994 Two-day Workshop & Concert on Jazz Improvisation at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.
1990-92 Lecturer in Jazz History for the Senior Sociology Seminar, St. Anthony East High School, St. Anthony, MN.
1982-83 Jazz Improvisation Instructor & Woodwind Sectional Instructor, Blue Lake In Bavaria, an international summer music camp based in Rottenbuch, Germany.
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1993 Chapter One by The Illicit Sextet (Illicit Productions IPIS-10047, compact disc). Features two of my compositions: Chapter One and Theme For Woody Shaw (Mean What You Say).
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My articles on jazz and new music appeared in Midwest Jazz (formerly the Arts Midwest Jazzletter), and in the Twin Cities Jazz Society's Jazz Notes.
Writings About Jazz by Kelly Bucheger
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At the University of Wisconsin - River Falls:
Music theory and jazz improvisation with John Radd.
Saxophone and woodwind performance with Robert Samarotto (of the new music group Zeitgeist).
Composition with Conrad DeJong.
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