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5 unusual facts about New Orleans Center for Creative Arts


Jay Weigel

Weigel’s post-modern opera, Dawn in the Floating City, was presented at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts in 2002.

Jonathan Batiste

A member of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) along with Trombone Shorty he graduated in 2004 and was a primer young performer.

Lolis Eric Elie

Elie is an alumnus of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and a 1981 graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School.

Matthew Golombisky

At any given point, he had 30 private students, several of which were accepted to the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), aged anywhere from 4 to 75 years old, studying piano, bass, guitar, theory, composition, and improvisation.

Paul Mauffray

He has studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana State University, Justus Liebig University (Giessen), Masaryk University (Brno), and was an Associate Instructor / Assistant Conductor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.



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