Allan Dennis is the founder and director of the Midwest Young Artists

Midwest Young Artists

Midwest Young Artists , the largest youth ensemble music program in the Midwest, was founded in 1993 in Evanston, Illinois by Dr. Allan Dennis and consisted of a single orchestra...

 youth orchestra program based in Highwood

Highwood, Illinois

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, Illinois

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. He received his doctorate from Indiana University

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, his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the State University of New York at Fredonia

State University of New York at Fredonia

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 and has also studied at the Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music

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 and The Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music, in Antwerp. He also conducts the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra.

He has also won the Illinois Music Council's Director of the Year Award, and MYA has won the Best Youth Orchestra, Best Chamber Music Program, Best Staff, and Best Volunteers awards several times.
Students call him Dr D.


http://www.mya.org/people/faculty/dennis.php

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