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Jeff Fairbanks Project Hansori
COMPOSER: Jeff Fairbanks has won a number of highly competitive awards for composing, including the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, BMI Charlie Parker Award, runner-up for the IAJE Gil Evans Fellowship, and recognition from the NY Youth Symphony. He has won two grants from the Queens Council on the Arts, and three grants from the American Music Center. Jeff's music has been performed at the Montreux, Vienne, Umbria, and North Sea Jazz festivals, Merkin Concert Hall, and at IAJE conferences, among other venues.
PERFORMER: Fairbanks is also a seasoned performer on trombone, having played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Carnival Cruise Lines, Busch Gardens, Wito Rodriguez, and many others. He has toured in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and throughout the U.S.
BACKGROUND: Fairbanks is a native of South Florida. After earning a Master degree in Jazz Composition from USF in 2005, he moved to New York to join the BMI Jazz Composer Workshop under Jim McNeely. Now, in addition to leading and writing for Project Hansori, Jeff freelances as a composer and performer, and lives in Queens with his wife and two children.
Awards
Aaron Copland Fund Recording Program Grant 2011 American Music Center Composer Assistance Grant 2011 American Music Center Recording Grant 2010 Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artist Initiative 2010 American Music Center Composer Assistance Grant 2009 BMI Charlie Parker Award 2008 American Music Center Composer Assistance Grant 2008 IAJE Gil Evans Fellowship finalist 2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award 2006 First Music Award finalist 2006-2008 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award finalist 2003
Tags
"His composition was so sophisticated and artful". -Mike Wood, Queens Buzz
"an ambitious suite that mixed traditional Chinese gongs and musical gestures with more jazz-like passages". -Joe Phillips, Numinous
"Jeff Fairbanks Wins Charlie Parker Composition Prize at BMI Jazz Showcase" -American Music Center, New Music Box
Primary Instrument
Saxophone
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Credentials/Background
New York Jazz Academy
Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of South Florida 2004-2005
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Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Mulberry Street Part II: Scaring Evil Spirits Away with Joyful Sounds
From: Mulberry StreetBy Jeff Fairbanks Project Hansori