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Kathryn Ballard Shut (b. 1972 - ) (pronounced \ˈshüt\, as in the English word "''shoot''") is an American jazz pianist, vocalist, music producer, composer, author, promoter, syndicated radio music host, and president of TIMKAT Entertainment, LLC,〔http://www.timkatent.net〕 an independent record label based in Denver, Colorado, in the United States of America. Her father was the late trumpeter, saxophonist, and vocalist, Tim Ballard, whom was honored as an inductee into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame (2008, as member of Capitol Records recording artists, Garry Mac and the Mac Truque (1969-1971)〔http://www.ksmusichalloffame.org/inductees_part2.html#2008〕) and whom himself was a 46-year veteran of the music industry until his passing in 2009 at the age of 61.〔http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ballard&GSfn=timothy&GSmn=lee&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=79678456&df=all&〕 == Early Life and Education == Ballard Shut was born in 1972 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, but after her parents divorced in August 1977, moved to Kansas City, Missouri when she was 4 years old. She was raised by her mother Sharyn and step-father, J. Michael Pendergist, in Eastern Jackson County, Missouri from 1977-1995 and lived in the area again from 1999-2000. Her first and primary instrument was the piano at age 8, but starting in fifth grade, she also earned the first chair clarinet spot in the school band. However, Ballard Shut deeply wanted to play in jazz band, and upon learning that clarinetists were only welcome in a jazz ensemble if they were also saxophonists, she switched to tenor and baritone saxophone and continued to excel on these instruments throughout high school. Among her musical honors as a youth, she auditioned and was selected from hundreds of area-wide competitors to perform with the 1989 Kansas City All District "Blue" Jazz Band (on baritone saxophone) and under the direction of Dr. James Popejoy,〔http://arts-sciences.und.edu/music/faculty/james-popejoy.cfm〕 was the honored recipient on saxophone of the prestigious John Philip Sousa Band Award, granted to one band student from each American high school that demonstrated the highest quality of musical excellence within his or her senior year. Ballard Shut was active in every musical organization offered, including all bands and also as one of only two mezzo-soprano vocalists selected to sing in the school's 40-member honor choir, ''Camerata'', under the direction of the esteemed Mr. Noel Fulkerson.〔http://www.kcmmc.org/page1/page1.html〕 As the string orchestra did not allow saxophonists as a general rule, she instead performed in the percussion section, having learned timpani, crash cymbals, bass drum, and other auxiliary instruments at Central Missouri State University's Summer Music Camp in 1988 and 1990. Because of her extreme musical versatility and due to always seeing her with a different instrument in her hand, by her senior year, her high school band granted her an additional humorous award at the annual banquet entitled, "I Have More Instruments Than The United States Marine Corps Band". After graduating from Raytown Senior High School in Raytown, Missouri in 1990, she first attended The University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri as a Music Education major from 1990-1993 and in 1993 was inducted into Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity, Epsilon Omega chapter. Disenchanted with the rigors of the major, in 1993, Ballard Shut changed her field of study in her junior year from Music Education to Spanish, moved back home, and transferred to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995. As a result, she won a full-ride scholarship in 1995-1996 to Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. In 1997, after leaving the program at Marquette to spend a year of self-discovery, Ballard Shut found that she could apply her honed teaching skills in the growing information technology field, eventually leading to strong experience as a data architect and team manager in the data warehousing field. In 2015, Ballard Shut later graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Master of Business Administration degree from Webster University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathryn Ballard Shut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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