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Monika Herzig Visiting Lecturer

Monika Herzig teaches classes on the Music Industry and Community Arts Organizations. She is the co-founder and current administrator of Jazz from Bloomington, a jazz society fostering exposure and education about Jazz. Over the past seven years, she has booked and organized close to 40 concerts with internationally renowned artists and presented programs to thousands of elementary school children in South Central Indiana. In addition, she is a board member of the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation and advisor for JAzz Works, a program presented through Junior Achievement of Indiana. Her jazz record label ACME Records is home to the jazz ensembles Monika Herzig Acoustic Project, Kwyjibo, Third Man, and BeebleBrox.

She has completed her Doctorate in Music Education and Jazz Studies at Indiana University in 1997. As a touring jazz artist, she has performed at many prestigious jazz clubs and festivals, such as the Indy Jazz Fest, Cleveland’s Nighttown, Louisville’s Jazz Factory, the W.C.Handy Festival, Jazz in July in Bloomington and Cincinnati, Columbus’ Jazz & Rib Fest, to name just a few. Groups under her leadership have toured Germany, opened for acts such as Tower of Power, Sting, the Dixie Dregs, Yes, and more.

Recently she has received her third “Individual Artist Grant” from the Indiana Arts Commission in support of her newest CD project “What Have You Gone and Done?”. Her previous release In Your Own Sweet Voice – A Tribute to Women Composers has received much praise. Thomas Garner from Garageradio.com writes, “I was totally awed by the fine musicianship throughout”. As a recipient of the 1994 Down Beat Magazine Award for her composition “Let’s Fool One” and with several Big Band Arrangements published with the University of Northern Colorado Press, Herzig has also gathered international recognition for her writing skills.