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Max Holm Only High School Student to

Receive 2015 Jazz Education Network
(JEN) Lou Fischer Co-Founder Scholarship
The prestigious award will be presented to him at the JEN Conference in San Diego, CA in
January 2015. Herbie Hancock will be the keynote speaker.
Miami, FL, October 31, 2014 /PressReleasePing/ -18 year old Max Holm, who was raised
in Stockholm, Sweden, is the only hiigh school student in the US to receive the prestigious
award from the Jazz Education Network (JEN). The award recognizes an outstanding high
school jazz student who has a strong resume and is supported with exemplary
recommendations from professionals in the field.

The Park City, Utah resident is a member of Caleb Chapman's Crescent Super Band, having
recently moved from South Florida, where he was a member of another well-known high
school band, The Dillard Center for the Arts Jazz Ensemble. Max received the Outstanding
Piano Solo Award in 2014 from Wynton Marsalis at the Essentially Ellington Competition at
Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Max was also the only pianist in the country chosen
to be a member of the Jazz Band of America, performing in Indianapolis at the Music for All
Festival.

Max has attended several prestigious jazz camps, including Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony,
Stanford Jazz Institute, Centrum, Juilliard/New York Jazz Symposium, University of Miami
Honors Jazz Camp, Litchfield and Michigan State. Max performed, studied and taken master
classes with many jazz greats, including Wynton Marsalis and Kirk Whalum, among many
others. See MaxHolm.com for more information.

As a member of the Crescent Super Band, Max will travel to Havana, Cuba in March to open
the Fiesta del Tambor. At the JEN conference in January, Max and the band will perform with
famed Latin Jazz musician, Poncho Sanchez,

Max is a high school senior and is applying to The Juilliard School, Berklee College of Music,
Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin College and The Brubeck Institute.
Miami, FL
Maggie Curran
MAGGIE CURRAN LLC
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Maggie@MaggieCurran.com
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