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Jazz artist Jon Metzger worked with students at two Florida universities.

Brad Linde '01, a music major and jazz studies minor while at Elon, was honored Sept. 14 at the 27th-annual Washington, D.C., Mayor's Arts Awards with an Outstanding Emerging Artist Award.

Professor and Artist in Residence Jon Metzger has been named to the 2012 Downbeat Magazine Readers Choice Poll ballot in the Vibes category.

Associate Professor and Artist in Residence Jon Metzger has completed work on a new recording of award-winning composer Doug Richard's Ben Seni Variations for 80-piece orchestra and nine jazz soloists at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Associate Professor Jon Metzger was invited to perform at the third annual Jazz Educators Network Conference on January 4 and 5 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Jon Metzger, associate professor of music, has completed a new CD recording with the John Brown Jazz Orchestra for a future release on Brown Boulevard Records.

While at Duke University, associate professor Jon Metzger presented a lecture on the historically significant and influential jazz vibraphonists for a Jazz Masters Symposium, gave a master class for Jazz Studies students, and performed as the featured soloist with the Duke University Jazz Ensemble under the direction of John Brown.

Associate professor of music Jon Metzger has been featured in an interview for Voice of America, the official broadcast institution of the United States federal government broadcast in 53 languages to an audience of 123 million people.