Truth in Jazz

Meet our Lead Alto: Scott Kitzmiller

Jul 01

Hometown: Elkins, WV 21 years, Elkhart for 21.

Education: B.M.E. – West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1985

Playing Experience: WVWC Jazz Ensemble, Truth in Jazz, A Cut Above, Valleyaires chorus, New Tradition chorus, Northern Union chorus (director), various men’s quartets.

Career Highlights: Opened for Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie. Toured Soviet Union and Romania with College jazz band, played Black Sea Jazz Festival. Barbershop Harmony Society - District quartet champion, International quartet competitor, chorus director, coach, arranger, contest judge. Sang backup at the Hoosier Hayride Opry.  Performed a Barbershop Ballet with American Ballet Theater. Sang the National Anthem at a Bears – Lions game.

Why I Play With TIJ: Because the pay is so great…

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