{"id":361,"date":"2014-09-29T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/?p=361"},"modified":"2014-09-29T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:41:32","slug":"sean-parsons-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/2014\/09\/29\/sean-parsons-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Parsons &#8217;01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/files\/2014\/09\/parsons-188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-364 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/files\/2014\/09\/parsons-188.jpg\" alt=\"parsons-188\" width=\"188\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/files\/2014\/09\/parsons-188.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/files\/2014\/09\/parsons-188-157x200.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titanpride.org\/s\/653\/index.aspx?sid=653&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=1362\">Homecoming 2014: Off the Charts<\/a>, Illinois Wesleyan University will recognize the Alumni Award winners Oct. 18 at a luncheon at the Shirk Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Parsons \u201901 will be presented with the Robert M. Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumnus Award!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Named for a 1968 alumnus and former alumni director, the Robert M. Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumnus Award honors young alumni for outstanding professional achievement and\/or civic leadership. Parsons, who studied musical composition at Illinois Wesleyan and later earned master\u2019s degree in jazz studies, is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator. He received a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>As a jazz pianist, Parsons has performed at national and international music festivals and recently released his debut recording as a pianist and composer, <em>Introduction<\/em>. Now an assistant professor at Ohio University, Parsons previously served as a faculty member at Marshall University and as an adjunct professor of music at Illinois Wesleyan. He also served as jazz combo director for the 2011 South Dakota All-State Jazz Ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>All honorees will be featured as \u201cBack to College Classes\u201d speakers during Homecoming weekend.\u00a0Parsons will present \u201c1959 in Jazz\u2026It Was a Very Good Year\u201d at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 18. All classes will be held in Beckman Auditorium at The Ames Library.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Sean!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of Homecoming 2014: Off the Charts, Illinois Wesleyan University will recognize the Alumni Award winners Oct. 18 at a luncheon at the Shirk Center. Sean Parsons \u201901 will be presented with the Robert M. Montgomery Outstanding Young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/2014\/09\/29\/sean-parsons-01\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homecoming","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2001classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}