KYLE GREGORY Professional Jazz and Commercial Music: Liza Minelli, The Spinners, The Temptations, Mitzi Gaynor, Les and Larry Elgart,Tex Benecke, Bobby Vinton, Suzanne Somers, Jimmy Dorsey, Lawrence Welk, and Al Cobine Orchestras; Freelance Jazz Clubs in Europe and the United States, opened concerts with Britt Arts Training Faculty Combo for George Shearing, David Sanborn, and John McGlaughlin. Professional Western Art and Church Music: Principal Trumpet--Opera Illinois, Peoria Civic Opera, Peoria Symphony (1992-1993); Church Soloist, Brass Chamber Ensembles, Boy Soprano--Christ Church Cathedral Boys Choir, Indianapolis. Featured Soloist with Lab Band Band Jazz Ensembles, David Baker and Dominic Spera, Directors; guest performer at the New York Conference I, University of Northern Colorado, Gene Aitken, Director; guest soloists Bob Mintzer, J.J. Johnson, Marlena Shaw, and Diane Reeves; guest performer at the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention, New Orleans, Mid-West Orchestra and Band Clinic, Chicago. Featured Soloist with Big for Brass Scholarships, the Roosevelt Hotel,New York City. University Symphony and Concert Orchestras, Indiana University; includes performances of La Boheme and West Side Story with the Indiana University Opera Theatre. AWARDS: September, 1995 Induction as Honorary Member of Phi Mu Alpha, Bradley University. August, 1991 United States and Hungarian Government Fulbright Grant for Music Education esearch, Budapest and PŽcs, Hungary. June, 1990, 1991 The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Annual DOWN BEAT Student Musi Awards, Outstanding Performance: University of Northern Colorado Lab Band I. June, 1989 Scholarship for Academic Excellence, University of Northern Colorado. January, 1987 Outstanding Musician, Indiana Unversity Marching Hundred. May, 1980 Undergraduate Scholarship for Student Achievement (4 years--full tuition), Cummins Engine Foundation, Columbus, Indiana. Spring, 1980 Outstanding Soloist of Festival, Ohio State University Jazz Festival, Elmhurst Jazz Festival, State Jazz Band Contest,Indianapolis. March, 1979 Outstanding Jazz Soloist, Loyola University Jazz Festival, New Orleans, Scholarship to Berklee School of Music presented from DOWN BEAT Magazine.