Christie jay biography

Christie Jay on Cameo!
He is the author of the poetry collections: Ellipsis and Songs for Ori, both collection of poems.
An active violin teacher and coach in the metropolitan Atlanta area, Mr. Christy is an Artist Affiliate at Emory University, adjunct faculty at Georgia Tech.

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Christi Jay Wells

Christi Jay Wells (they/them, she/her) is an associate professor of musicology at Arizona State University's School of Music, Dance and Theatre and a Race, Arts & Democracy Fellow with ASU’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. An interdisciplinary scholar in the fields of jazz history, popular music studies, dance studies, and arts & cultural policy, they received their doctorate in 2014 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral dissertation on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb and swing music in Harlem during the Great Depression received the Society for American Music’s Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award and UNC’s Glen Haydon Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology. She have also received Videmus’s Edgar A. Toppin Award for Outstanding Research in African American Music, a Morroe Berger/Benny Carter Jazz Research Fellowship from the Institute of Jazz Studies, and the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music.

A social jazz and blues dancer for twenty years, Wells has

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Jay Christy

Biography

Jay Christy is the Acting Associate/Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the Orchestra since 1992. An active violin teacher and coach in the metropolitan Atlanta area, Christy is an Artist Affiliate at Emory University, and has taught at Reinhardt, Georgia Tech and Covenant Colleges. As a chamber musician, Christy has performed with Robert McDuffie at Mercer University, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jonathan Carney, David Halen, the Georgian Chamber Players at Spivey Hall, Riverside Chamber Players, Emory Chamber Music Society, Vega String Quartet and Thamyris. He has two chamber music recordings with the Riverside Chamber Players and the Christy Oboe Quartet, which is comprised of his two sisters and brother-in-law. Since the summer of 2003 he has played in the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY, where he was featured in a live broadcast for NPR's "Performance Today." In 2013, he was invited to join the faculty of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina where he played Principal Se

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Jay ChristyArtist Affiliate: ViolinAssistant Principal Second Violin, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Jay Christy is the Acting Associate Principal/Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the Orchestra since 1992.

An active violin teacher and coach in the metropolitan Atlanta area, Mr. Christy is an Artist Affiliate at Emory University, adjunct faculty at Georgia Tech, and has taught at Reinhardt and Covenant Colleges.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Christy has performed with Robert McDuffie at Mercer University, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jonathan Carney, David Halen, the Georgian Chamber Players at Spivey Hall, Riverside Chamber Players, Emory Chamber Music Society, Vega String Quartet and Thamyrisas.

He has two chamber music recordings with the Riverside Chamber Players and the Christy Oboe Quartet, which is comprised of his two sisters and brother-in-law.

Since the summer of 2003, he has played in the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY, where he was featured in a live broadcast for NPR's "Performance Today." In 2013,