Local jazz saxophonist Howard Dietz was named a winner of the 2017 Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, which has honored promising 18 to 22-year-old artists every year since 1988, according to an April 17 announcement from YYPA organizers.
Dietz, of Morgan HIll, attends the University of North Texas and plays in the Grammy-nominated One O’clock Lab band. He was recently selected as the grand prize winner of the 2016 Saxophone Idol Competition, according to the press release.
Winners receive an all-expense-paid trip to the YYPA Celebration Weekend June 24-27, which will take place during the Music for All Summer Symposium at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, from June 24-July 1.
For more information about the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Program, visit 4wrd.it/YYPA.
