Education News

Online Guitar Courses Now Available at Berkleemusic

Source: All About Jazz
May 10, 2005

Boston, MA. – May 10, 2005 – Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music, has added five new online guitar courses and five new college-credit guitar certificate programs to their online curriculum. Courses include Guitar Scales 101; Amps, Effects, and Getting Your Guitar Sound; Guitar Chords 101; Blues Guitar Workshop; and Recording and Producing for Guitarists. The online extension school has enrolled 3,000 students in more than 75 countries around the globe since it opened its online ...

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Romanian Jazz Education Summit

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2005

The first-ever Romanian Jazz Education Summit will begin June 26, and last until July 3, 2005. All jazz music educators in Romania will attend. The purpose of this summit is to provide intensive/detailed instruction of American jazz education techniques for Romanian educators through the assistance of dedicated American jazz educators. The approximately 100 educators and/or selected performers will meet at a beautiful retreat in the Western Carpathian Mountains, away from the numerous distractions of cities like Bucharest. It is the ...

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Terri Lyne Carrington Leads Summer Jazz Workshop at Berklee

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2005

Berklee Offers New Elite Summer Jazz Workshop During Five-Week Summer Performance Program, July 9-August 12, Artistic Director Terri Lyne Carrington to Lead Ensemble Boston, MA – Berklee College of Music has offered the Five-Week Summer Performance Program since 1987, giving high school students the opportunity to study jazz, pop, rock, funk, fusion, and R&B. This year the Five-Week Summer Performance Program is inaugurating the Berklee Summer Jazz Workshop, a special program for the best and brightest high school jazz players ...

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Ran Blake Steps Down from Chairmanship

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2005

Jazz Pianist Ran Blake to Step Down as Chair of Contemporary Improvisation Department at New England Conservatory

“Noir" Master Served in the Position 32 Years Allan Chase, Ken Schaphorst Named Interim Co-chairs

Ran Blake, the first and only chair of New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation department (formerly Third Stream), will step down from his position at the end of the current semester. MacArthur “Genius" grant winner and double Guggenheim fellow, the “noir" jazz master has held the job ...

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International Worskhop to take place in Tuscany, Italy

Source: All About Jazz
April 27, 2005

An international jazz workshop will take place in Tuscany, Italy, this summer with a truly exceptional faculty from the Netherlands and USA: Harold Danko (piano), Hein Van de Geyn (bass) and Hans van Oosterhout (drums). Students enrolled at a music program, music teachers or professional musicians who want to know more about jazz improvisation or fairly strong amateurs, with a passion for jazz, have the chance to participate in this extraordinary full-immersion musical happening. The workshop takes place from 11-16 ...

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Jazz Pianist Stuart H. Tresser (Hank Johnson) & Inventor discovers a substitute for dental amalgam

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2005

Besides being a jazz pianist, electrician, printer, now inventor Stuart H. Tresser has been hard at work trying to invent a substitute for amalgam fillings used by dentists presently which contains 50% mercury (a toxic metal). For over 150 years regular dental amalgam (the stuff fillings are made of)has found it's way into the mouths of millions of people! Toxic mercury fumes have contributed to cronic exposure to this poisonous metal, mercury. Using some simple basic chemistry, and knowledge of ...

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Music Business Consultant, Vocalist, and Boston Hip-Hop Alliance Co-Founder to Talk with Berklee Students

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2005

On Tuesday April 12, 2005, Music Business Professional Darcie-Nicole Wicknick participate in a forum and discussion for students about Women in Leadership, particularly in the music industry. Jane Stachowiak will facilitate. The workshop is open to the Berklee Community and is sponsored by The Student Activities Department, Student Affairs, and the Women's Network of Staff and Faculty at Berklee. ABOUT MISS WICKNICK: Berklee Music Business/Management Alumna Darcie-Nicole Wicknick began her career in the entertainment industry in 1976. A professional R&B ...

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Percussion Legend Candido Camero Conducts Clinic Crafters Master Class at Blue Note April 2

Source: All About Jazz
March 30, 2005

"Let your talent hit the rafters...get yourself to Clinic Crafters." - Jim Hall

From the audience, a great performance comes across like a seamless miracle. If you could get the performer's commentary on what he does, though, you'd learn that each combines theory, technique and tricks of the trade with his talent in a totally individual way - and that's what students and fans have the opportunity to discover in an intimate series of workshops scheduled at Blue Note, 131 ...

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