We are proud to announce that Angeleisha L. Rodgers has been named the new artistic director for the Nokuri Arts Society.
Angeleisha L. Rodgers is rapidly making her mark as one of today’s most sought after trumpet players in New York City.
A native of Virginia, she recieve her undergraduate degree Virginia State University, where she performed with the school’s world-renowned Virginia State University Gospel Chorale.
She earned a Master of Music degree from North Carolina Central in Jazz Studies with an emphasis in Musicology.
Her thesis – which explores the life , Clora Bryant, a prodigy of Dizzy Gillespie– won the Eileen Southern Research Grant from the American Musicological Society.
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