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First Ever Master's Degree Students To Graduate From Berklee In Valencia, Spain
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music, the world’s leading college for contemporary music education, announces that 74 students from 27 different countries will be the first-ever to graduate from its inaugural master’s programs launched in September 2012 at its new international campus in Valencia, Spain. The graduates will be awarded degrees in one of three programs: Contemporary Performance; Global Entertainment and Music Business; and Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games. The graduation takes place on Monday, July 15, 2013, at Berklee’s ...
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Student Led Berklee Rhythm Collective Teach And Perform In Colombia As Cultural Ambassadors
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music student bassist Esther Rojas, a native of Barranquilla, Colombia, leads the Berklee Rhythm Collective on a two-week trip to her home country to teach and perform. The program, sponsored by the Colombo-Americano Bi-National Center (BNC) of the U.S. Embassy’s Cultural Affairs Office, is part of an initiative to promote Colombian and U.S. relations and understanding through music education. Berklee Rhythm Collective will be in Colombia through June 24. The trip originated with the BNC contacting Berklee’s ...
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Dave Holland Joins Royal Academy Of Music
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Peter Craik
The Royal Academy of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of jazz legend Dave Holland to its illustrious roster of of teachers. Dave Holland said: “I'm very happy to have been invited by the Royal Acadamy of Music to be their International Jazz Artist in Residence for the next two years. Spending some extended time with the students of the jazz department will give me the opportunity to share with them some of my own creative ideas and also ...
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New York Jazz Academy Summer Jazz Intensives, NYC Music Camps For Adults And Teens, Now Enrolling
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New York Jazz Academy Publicity
MAKE THIS SUMMER YOUR HOTTEST YET NEW YORK, NY: New York City’s newest music school is offering affordable Summer Jazz Intensives to adults and teens who can make it to their exciting new space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. New York Jazz Academy, recently featured on NBC’s Today in New York, CNBC, and CBS News, is offering week-long summer jazz workshops to jazz players who want to freshen their improv or tighten their skills in a setting that’s ...
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Maryland Summer Jazz Camp Returns In July
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The Phillips Agency
The Maryland Summer Jazz Camp returns on July 13 for its ninth season. The inspiring workshops and jams for musicians and public concerts for jazz lovers take place through July 26. Drawing adult learners and listeners from both coasts, the top-rated event hosts brilliant jazz artists on stages and in classrooms, where they encourage amateur and semi-pro students to get “out of the basement and onto the bandstand." Some students will begin or resume professional music careers; others will keep ...
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"Global Circulation of Jazz" International Conference set for June 27-28, 2013 in Paris
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Susheel Kurien
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Thursday 27 & Friday 28 of June 2013 2:00-9:00 & 9:30 - 7:00 Salle de cinéma Free entrance An international conference entitled “Global Circulations of Jazz" will be held on June 27-28, 2013, at the musée du quai Branly. Bringing together specialists, anthropologists, historians, musicologists, sociologists, the dissemination of jazz outside of its places of birth will be explored. We will look at this ‘other jazz’, whose history is little ...
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A New Look And Vibe For This Year’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet
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Keith Michaud
The Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet for 2013-14 is taking on a whole new look and a whole new vibe. For the first time since the group comprising some of the nation’s top young jazz musicians was formed, there is a female member, and no pianist. And, for very nearly for the first time, there is a completely new set of musicians. “This is an interesting group – a significant one since we have five new spots opening this year,” said ...
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Jazz Arts Group Announces 2013 Winner Of The Hank Marr High School Jazz Award
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has announced its winner of the 2013 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst central Ohio's young students of jazz. Eight extremely talented high school students auditioned for the $500 cash award and the chance to perform with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra and Artistic Director Byron Stripling at the July 19th JazZoo! at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. First round adjudicators were ...
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