Alexa Torres Skillicorn, MM student in jazz violin, has been chosen to receive the 2021 Presser Foundation Graduate Award. Her proposal is Ethnography of Practice: Oral History for the Development of Embodied Jazz Violin Praxis. "The program is designed to encourage and support, in a special way, the advanced education and career of truly exceptional graduate music students who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music." 

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