Richard Birk

Phone: (979) 230-3272

email: richard.birk@brazosport.edu

Richard Birk is the Coordinator of Music and an Associate Professor of Music at Brazosport College. Twice recognized as Brazosport College's Piper Professor Nominee and Teacher of Excellence, Birk directs the BC Jazz Band, Jazz Combo, and Wind Ensemble. Birk has served as the clinician/director of the Community College All-Star Jazz Ensemble at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference in New York and many of  Birk’s students have been selected to both the National Community College All-Star Jazz Ensemble and the Texas Community College All-State Jazz Ensemble. Birk is Past President of the IAJE-Texas Unit and also the editor of the Texas All-State Jazz Audition Etudes. Birk is the leader/founder of the Christian jazz sextet, Jazz Sunday, who recently released their third compact disc, “Jazz the Halls”.

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