非常抱歉，
你要访问的页面不存在，
非常抱歉，
你要访问的页面不存在，
非常抱歉，
你要访问的页面不存在，
验证码：
职称:Professor
所属学校:Howard University
所属院系:Music
所属专业:Music, General
联系方式:(202) 806-7066
Fred Irby, III, a native of Mobile, Alabama, is a graduate of Grambling State University (Louisiana) and Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville). As Professor of Music at Howard University in Washington, DC, Mr. Irby is the Coordinator of Instrumental music, trumpet instructor, and Director of the internationally acclaimed Howard University Jazz Ensemble (HUJE). He is also Principal Trumpet of the Kennedy Center Opera House Musical Theater Orchestra and has recorded several films for the History Channel. He can be heard playing principal trumpet on the cast recording of the Stephen Sondheim musical BOUNCE.
The HUJE has 40 recordings to its credit, given concerts in China, Japan, Romania, Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica, Guatemala, Colombia, U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas and St. Croix), Martinique, Senegal (West Africa) and was featured on the 1992 (Lionel Hampton), 1996 (Benny Carter), and 2005 (Tony Bennett) Kennedy Center Honors Gala (CBS-TV). Mr. Irby served as Music Director for the Washington Ballet during its visit in 2002 to Havana, Cuba for the 17th International Ballet Festival, he visited Caracas, Venezuela with the Howard University Jazztet in 2004 giving lectures at several universities and he traveled with HUJE to Japan in 1996, 2005, 2007 and 2009 to give charity concerts for disadvantaged children and families. In May, 2013 Mr. Irby and the Howard University Jazztet were invited by the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, Senegal to represent the USA in the international Saint Louis Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in Africa. They also performed in Louga, and Dakar, Senegal and had a private audience with the Minister of Tourism and Culture , the legendary Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour.
