MICHAEL IRISH, Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan Tech University, has a

broad background in Jazz Studies as an educator and performer. He holds a

B.M.E. from Northern Michigan University and an M.M.E. from the University

of Wisconsin - Stevens Point with a thesis in Jazz Studies. Prior to his

appointment at Michigan Tech in 1991, Mr. Irish taught in the Wisconsin

Public Schools and for 8 years was the Director of Jazz Studies at the

University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point.
 
 

As a jazz guitarist, Mr. Irish has performed with Clark Terry, Louis

Bellson, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Shew, Rob McConnell, Don Ellis, Frank

Wess, Steve Houghton, Don Shelton, Harold Jones, Lyle Mays, Frank

Mantooth, Dave Samuels,Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, and Eddie Russ,

among others. In the area of popular music, he has worked with Bob Hope,

Robert Goulet, Rich Little, Carol Lawrence, Jeannie C. Riley, Rodney

Dangerfield, and Bobby Vinton. In 1997 and 1998 he was

guitarist/mandolinist for the National Touring Companies of Fiddler On the

Roof and BIG.
 
 

Mr. Irish is also an active jazz adjudicator/clinician, composes and

arranges for both large and small jazz ensembles, and has studied jazz

arranging and composition with Frank Mantooth, Matt Harris and Dick Grove.

He is a longtime member of the International Association of Jazz Educators

and in 1985 received the first National Band Association Outstanding Jazz

Educator Award. In 1992, he received one of 6 National Merit Awards fom

the American College Theater Festival for his 25 original compositions for

the blues musical, The Blue Psalms. Two of his arrangements are featured

on the latest MTU jazz CD entitled Tech Jazz.
 
 

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