BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA (WKZO) — Steve Zegree, the long time music professor and director of Gold Company at Western Michigan University, died Sunday morning at home in Bloomington, Indiana after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.
During his tenure in Kalamazoo, he had also performed with the Western Jazz Quartet, and taught piano and vocal jazz.
He left Kalamazoo in 2012 to become a music professor at Indiana University, and to become the director of the “Singing Hoosiers”.
While at WMU his demanding direction made Gold Company a national force, winning a number of Downbeat Magazine awards, performing at major jazz festivals and performing with some of the greats in Jazz.
Services are pending.
Zegree was 61.
