Xavier G. Smith -- New Director of Instrumental Music

Xavier G. Smith, the new director of instrumental music, has been involved with St. John’s Jesuit High School and Academy through the SJJ Jazz Machine for several years.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina on a full music scholarship and earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and a minor in Jazz Studies. He was also awarded the Doris B. Johnson Scholarship for outstanding educators in fall, 1989 and spring, 1990.

He pursued his Masters in Music Theory at Bowling Green State University. He has taught junior high and high school music for Toledo Public Schools for almost 15 years. He was the band director at Jones and Libbey High School.

He also teaches and directs The Jazz Express at Owens Community College. If his face is familiar he plays saxophone in numerous community groups throughout northwest Ohio.

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