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Tribute to Honor Joe Negri, Longtime Professor and Musician

Duquesne University and the Mary Pappert School of Music will celebrate the career of Pittsburgh icon and guitar faculty member Joe Negri with A Tribute to Joe Negri: A Celebration in Support of the Joe Negri Jazz Guitar Endowed Scholarship, on Friday, April 26, in the Power Center ballroom.

A Tribute to Joe Negri will begin at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception, followed by dinner and a performance by Negri and local jazz musicians including Joe Negri Trio members Max Leake, Tony De Paolis and Tom Wendt and Mary Pappert School of Music faculty members Mike Tomaro, Maureen Budway, Sean Jones and Joe Dallas. In addition, four of Negri’s guitar students—Mike Borowski, John Morrison, Ben Sherman and Spencer Geer—will perform alongside fellow music students Ben Rossman (bass) and Cory Caruso (drums).

A nationally acclaimed performer, composer, actor and educator, Negri founded the jazz guitar program in the School of Music in 1973. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of guitar at Duquesne, as well as at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Negri holds an honorary doctorate from Duquesne, which was presented to him in 2002.

Among his many accolades, Negri was named Man of the Year by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in 1998 and again in 2008 by the Audia Caring Heritage Foundation. In addition, he received the Hillman Foundation’s Elsie Award in 2004, an honor presented to those whose life’s work has demonstrated a love of community, compassion for others and who have made a positive impact on society through communication.

Tickets to A Tribute to Joe Negri are $100 per person and can be reserved through the Duquesne University Alumni Association. Proceeds from the event will support the Joe Negri Jazz Guitar Endowed Scholarship.


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