Christian Artist - Jesse Suggs-Celebrate One Solitary Life with Christian Art, Music and Dance

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Jesse L. Suggs, Jr., a graduate of North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, has 36 years of teaching experience. He retired in June 2000 and taught part-time in Guilford County Schools until the fall of 2003 when he returned to teaching full time through May of 2005. Currently, he is only teaching private lessons. As the former director of the Ben L. Smith High School Orchestra and the Jamestown Middle School Orchestra, which he founded, Mr. Suggs extended their musical ambassadorship over 65,892 miles including Dallas and San Antonio Texas, Bahamas, Jamaica, Hawaii, Australia and Singapore. The Smith Orchestra has the state record for the longest non-stop performance by a string orchestra ( 12 hours, 14 minutes and 29 seconds).

Mr. Suggs has served as Assistant Conductor for the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra and Co-founder of North Carolina’s 1st Western Region Junior All-State Orchestra in 1992. He has served as Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer of the Orchestra Section and Member-at-Large of the North Carolina Music Educators Association.

Formerly Principal bassist for the Greensboro Philharmonia and the Greensboro Civic Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Suggs also played soprano, alto and tenor saxophones for the Greensboro Jazz Orchestra. Mr. Suggs is active as a clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor.

Jesse Suggs was the winner of the Maxine Swalin Award for an Outstanding Music Educator for 2008. This award, sponsored by the North Carolina Symphony, is given annually to a North Carolina music teacher who:

Makes a lasting difference in the lives of students of all abilities and backgrounds
Serves the community in an exemplary manner as a role model in music education
Instills a love for music in children
Inspires students to reach appropriately high musical standards

With this $500 recognition award, the North Carolina Symphony honors Maxine Swalin who, along with her husband Dr. Benjamin Swalin and Conductor from 1939-1972, gathered funds from the General Assembly to establish the children's concert divisions in 1945. This division of the North Carolina Symphony brings live concerts throughout the year to children statewide.

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