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Patrice Jackson - 2005

Patrice Jackson, a native of St. Louis, is the sixth generation in her family to play a stringed instrument. She began piano lessons at three with her mother and cello at eight with her father. Ms. Jackson made

BMW of North America, Inc. celebrates its fourth year of corporate sponsorship at The Juilliard School, providing a full-tuition music scholarship for the 2003-04 academic year. Over the years, the affiliation between BMW and Juilliard has been based on mutually held values of excellence and superb performance. These important qualities are expressed in the talents of cellist Patrice Jackson, a first-year student who is BMW's 2003-04 scholarship recipient..

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PATRICE JACKSON, 21, St. Louis, acclaimed cellist who studies at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City; 2002 first-place senior division winner of the prestigious Sphinx Competition for African and Latino String Players, for which she received a $10,000 award; featured on cover of Strings magazine, an international classical music publication; has performed with the Johannesburg Initiative Orchestra and the Free State Orchestra, both in South Africa; also has or will perform with major orchestras in Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Boston, Baltimore, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Puerto Rico; Yale University School of Music graduate.