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Jazz Guitarist Matt Warnock Joins University Of Chester Staff
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Matthew Warnock
A globally recognized jazz guitarist, who has taught and played throughout the US, UK, Canada and Brazil, has joined the University of Chester’s Performing Arts Department. Dr Matt Warnock, who is known to hundreds of thousands of guitarists via his teaching website mattwarnockguitar.com, has been appointed as a Lecturer in Popular Music Studies at the University of Chester. He will be teaching in the various modules of the undergraduate degree, working particularly with ensembles and guitar students. Dr Warnock said: ...
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Usdan, with Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Open Houses 2/20 and 2/24; Jane Monheit to be Visiting Faculty for 2013 Season
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the renowned summer arts day camp with an expanded Jazz Dept. for 2013, will hold free Open Houses on Wednesday February 20 and Sunday February 24, each from 11 AM to 2 PM. Attended annually by more than 1500 students ages 6-18 from New York City and throughout the Tri-State Area, transported by air-conditioned buses, Usdan is located on a magnificent 200-acre woodland campus in the Huntington area of Long Island. About ...
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Ronnie Burrage Coming to St. Louis Next Month for Performances, Workshop
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Drummer and U City native Ronnie Burrage is coming back home to St. Louis at the end of next month for a busy weekend of activities that will include three performances and a workshop: On Thursday, February 28, Burrage will perform a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, leading a trio with pianist Ptah Williams and bassist Darrell Mixon. The show will get underway at 8:00 p.m. in Holmes Lounge on the Wash U campus, ...
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Unique Approach To Piano Playing Helps With Seasonal Affective Disorder
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Edward Weiss
It's wintertime. And many are out playing in the snow. But for some, winter is not a happy event. In fact, it can be downright depressing. Which is why pianist/composer and online teacher Edward Weiss is giving away a free 'New Age' piano lesson titled 'Forest Interlude.' The lesson promises to teach beginning adults how to improvise and create their own unique sounds on the piano. When asked whether his 'New Age' piano method can help with depression or seasonal ...
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Jazz Legends Hancock And Shorter Named Distinguished Professors At Monk Institute
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Muse Media
Jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter named distinguished professors at the expanded Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Los Angeles, CA — The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has appointed multiple GRAMMY Award winners and NEA Jazz Masters Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter as distinguished professors at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This marks the first time these two artists have ...
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Learn Jazz Improvisation with Jazz Apps Mobile's Iimprov Series
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HypeBot
By Harry Decimo of Evolver.fm. Trolling through the app stores, a musician sees plenty of options for learning new tricks, and all sort of tuners and other utilities. But truly useful musicians' tools designed for players who know what they are doing are decidedly rarer. Basic guides to music theory and the like are common enough, but we haven't seen many apps set their sights higher. However, we found some, in the form of Jazz Apps Mobile's iImprov series, which ...
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Trumpeter Art Davis, Drummer Tim Davis Join Merit School Of Music Tuition-free Conservatory
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Melissa Connolly
Well-known performing Chicago jazz artists are now sharing their musical experience and passion with a new generation at Merit School of Music in Chicago's West Loop. Newly-hired trumpeter Art Davis and drummer Tim Davis join a list of established jazz performers on faculty at Merit’s Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory, which offers college preparatory instruction free of charge to those students who pass audition. Both Davises, along with Merit’s other jazz faculty members, are mainstays in the Chicago music scene, ...
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Usdan Center, With Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Free 1/27 Open House; Tuition Freeze Extended Due To Hurricane
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned Long Island summer arts day camp, announces that its tuition freeze, an opportunity for families to pay last year’s rates, a $100 tuition savings, has been extended due to the continuing effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York City and Long Island communities. The tuition will now be in effect through January 31, 2013. Usdan’s new programs for 2013 include a three-week session July 22-August 9. This will be ...
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