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Lisa Linde Founder and Director

Lisa Linde has dedicated her professional career to her passion of educating,training and inspiring young musicians. With over 20 years as a musiceducator, she has been recognized for her excellence and awarded numeroushonors and received national acclaim as an educator, conductor and advocate.
In addition to building renowned student ensembles, Lisa strives to createand nurture a community of musicians. Her efforts encapsulate the musicalexperience for her students and families, leading to a life-long love andappreciation of the arts.
Lisa is also passionate advocate for gender equality in jazz and is the founderof the nonprofit, jazzhers, an organization committed to shaping the futureof jazz by helping young musicians who identify as female and nonbinary tobecome connected to and feel empowered within the jazz community.She currently serves the broader music community as a frequent adjudicator,clinician and guest speaker.

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Learn more about how and why jazzhers was founded in this interview .