Presentation to be made by Gary Burton, 2 pm Sunday

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The Lyons Scholarship is awarded each year to one Northern California student in recognition of their outstanding musical talent. Because it is a full-tuition, renewable award, satisfactory academic and musical progress in each successive year will allow each Lyons Scholar to attend Berklee through graduation, entirely tuition-free.

The presentation will be made by vibraphone virtuoso and Berklee Executive Vice President, Gary Burton, one of the 2003 Monterey Jazz Festival Artists in Residence. A five-time Grammy winner, Burton has enjoyed a long and storied career, playing with Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Ralph Towner, and Makoto Ozone, among many others.

2003 Lyons Scholarship winner Pat Carroll is a gifted alto saxophonist, beginning his senior year at Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California. He has been studying with Bay Area musician and teacher Dann Zinn since the 4th grade.

Pat has been selected as a member of the 2003 Monterey Jazz Festival All-Star High School Big Band. Earlier this year, he was selected as lead alto for the 2003 California IAJE (International Association of Jazz Educators) All-State Honors Jazz Band, under the direction of saxophonist/composer Gordon Goodwin. He is also a member of the SFJAZZ All-Star High School Ensemble and performed at the 2003 Essentially Ellington High School Competition at New York's Lincoln Center.

Pat was recognized for Outstanding Performance by a Public High School Student in Down Beat Magazine's 2003 Student Music Awards. He was also a member of the Brubeck Institute High School All-Stars at the 2002 and 2003 Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony.

In his brief career, Pat has been inspired and coached by such eminent artists as Toshiko Akiyoshi, Eddie Marshall, Dave Eshelman, Harold Mabern, Eric Alexander, Christian McBride, Branford Marsalis, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Chris Potter. He hopes to continue studying with jazz masters at Berklee and beyond, and aspires to be a professional musician, expressing his art form around the world.

Tim Jackson, general manager of the Monterey Jazz Festival, has said "We are extremely proud of our Lyons Scholars and their achievements. We are happy to have a strong relationship with Berklee, and this major award presented in honor of our founder. To see these talented young people follow their muse, through exposure to Berklee's top faculty and facilities, is an absolutely ideal result."

Previous Lyons Scholars
Trumpeter Erik Telford of Pacific Grove was named the first Lyons Scholar in September 1996, and after a performing hiatus from the college, returned to Berklee in fall, 1999. Erik has studied privately with Wynton Marsalis, has performed with Ernie Watts (Berklee '66), Roy Hargrove (Berklee '89) and Joshua Redman, and has toured Japan, Australia and Europe as a member of various Monterey Jazz Festival Honor Bands. Erik completed his Berklee studies in May, 2001 with a degree in Film Scoring. He currently at the Eastman School of Music, where he is doing graduate work in composition.

El Cerrito's Dayna Stephens, a saxophonist and composer, was the award's second recipient; he began his Berklee studies in January, 1998. With a growing reputation in West Coast jazz circles, Stephens is a former member of the Berkeley High School Jazz Band, with which he toured Europe during the summer of 1998. He has attended the Stanford Jazz Workshop — where he studied with McCoy Tyner, Harold Land, and Steve Coleman — and the Young Musicians Program at Cal-Berkeley. Dayna was also an outstanding member of the Monterey Jazz Festival High School band program. During his Berklee years, Dayna competed for and won admission to the 2000 Henry Mancini Summer Institute in Los Angeles. Upon completing his Berklee studies in August 2001, with a degree in Music Education, Dayna was chosen for the Thelonious Monk Institute program at USC, along with five other Berklee alumni. He has just completed his studies there, and is pursuing his music in Los Angeles.

Cellist Rushad Eggleston of Carmel is the third Jimmy Lyons Scholar at Berklee, where he began his studies in January, 1999. With an excellent reputation in Monterey Bay Area circles as a member of the Youth Music Monterey orchestra, where he was first cello from 1994, Rushad established himself as a musician in great demand at Berklee, figuring prominently in many ensembles, including the Berklee String Orchestra, and studying cello with Assoc. Prof. Eugene Friesen, of the Paul Winter Consort. Rushad came to national prominence last year as a member of the progressive bluegrass string quartet, Fiddlers Four, with Michael Doucet, Bruce Molsky, and Darol Anger. The group made an eponymous CD, toured nationally, and was nominated for a Grammy. Rushad has moved to New York, and continues to work with Darol Anger, Fiddlers 4, and a host of other projects that "need a weird cello."

Drummer Thomas Pridgen, the fourth Lyons Scholar, has already amassed an impressive list of credentials. Since beginning a recording career at age 8, he has performed on 14 gospel albums. He won the Guitar Center Drum-Off at the age of 9, and by the time he was 10 years old, Pridgen was convinced he wanted to study at Berklee. Thomas has attended the college's annual Berklee in L.A. program several times. He began his studies in Boston in January 2002, and is currently on hiatus from the college.

Milton Fletcher, who began his Berklee studies in fall 2000, is the fifth Lyons Scholar. By the time he was 10 years old, Fletcher, who is from Seaside, was participating in the Monterey Jazz Festival's internationally respected education programs. He held the piano chair in the Monterey Jazz Festival High School All Star band for five years, traveling to Japan to perform with the group each summer. Milton's four years in the Monterey County Honor Band took him to performances at major jazz festivals in Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain. Since coming to Berklee, Milton has performed with Berklee bandmates at the Blue Note in New York, at the Jazz and Blues Co. in Carmel, and in a live radio concert on WGBH-FM in Boston. Milton graduated with a degree in Music Business/Management in spring 2003, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his music there.

The sixth Lyons Scholar is James Williams of Seaside, a gifted drummer who has been active in the Monterey Jazz Festival music education programs, various gospel church bands, and the music programs of Monterey High School. He has performed at a myriad of jazz festivals and other major music events around the world, including: the Monterey, Umbria, Montreux, and Vienne (France) jazz festivals, the Knitting Factory, Yoshi's, and the Grammy post-party at the Biltmore Hotel. James began his studies at Berklee, where he is a Music Business/Management major, in September 2001. He represented the college at the Monterey High School Competition, as a member of the Berklee All-Stars, in spring 2002.

The seventh Lyons Scholar is Carlin Muccular, a gifted drummer who has been playing the instrument since he was five years old, with his earliest performances in church at the age of seven. In 1999, he received his first national exposure when he won the "Guitar Center National Drum-Off" competition at the House of Blues in Hollywood, and was named the top amateur drummer in the country. Carlin has recorded on three separate gospel CD projects, and last year was touring with the acclaimed R&B singer Ledisi. He is the youngest endorser of both Remo Drumheads and Sabian cymbals, and has studied with Cuban-American percussion legend Walfredo Reyes, Sr. At Berklee, Carlin is double majoring, in Music Production and Engineering, and Music Business/Management.

Auditions for the Lyons Scholarship were via submission of an audition tape to the Berklee Scholarship Committee, which selected a group of 25 for live audition in Monterey. The students selected to audition are required to file an application for admission to Berklee, which must be approved by the college in order to compete for the scholarship.

Auditions were held on the weekend of April 5, 2003, during the Festival's annual High School Jazz Competition, and were conducted, as always, by senior Berklee faculty who come to California exclusively for this purpose. The college awarded several other, partial tuition scholarships at the Competition.

Gary Burton will present the eighth Lyons Scholarship to Pat Carroll on the Jimmy Lyons Stage of the Monterey Jazz Festival, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, September 21, 2003. Further information is available from the festival, at (408) 373-3366, or from Rob Hayes at Berklee College of Music (617) 331-4424 from Sept. 17 - 22, or (617) 747-2566 thereafter.