Education News

Usdan Center Receives Multi-Year Jazz Grant For New Program

Source: Reva Cooper
April 22, 2011

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the renowned not-for-profit summer arts day camp whose Jazz Department was founded in 1986 by legendary jazz artist/educator Dr. Billy Taylor, announces a two-year initiative grant provided by the Rauch Foundation's Founders' Memorial Program, for a new program titled Sustaining American Jazz: Inspiring Young Artists and Audiences. Intended to stimulate jazz pedagogy and performance by young students, the program will include scholarships each year to promising high school students for summer jazz ...

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Fundraiser May 18, 2011 to Benefit Cuban-American Music Educational Exchange

Source: Two for the Show Media
April 22, 2011

NEW YORK—The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance announced today that it will host a fundraiser benefiting the Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz (COSJ) on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenues) in New York City from 6PM-9PM. The evening will include performances by Arturo O'Farrill and the Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Andrea Brachfeld and Phoenix Rising, and Aruán Ortiz and Camarada Urbana. The Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz is ...

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Herbie Hancock to Receive Honorary Degree from The Juilliard School at 106th Commmencement Ceremony

Source: Gloria Gottschalk
April 21, 2011

The Juilliard School holds its 106th Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 20, 2011 at 11 AM in Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th Street, NYC). Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi presents honorary degrees to four outstanding artists. The recipients are:

Composer and conductor John Adams Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and producer Herbie Hancock Actor Derek Jacobi Choreographer Twyla Tharp

Mr. Adams will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Music degree. Mr. Hancock also receives an honorary ...

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New Ear Training Games at Theta Music Trainer Make Music Theory Fun

Source: Steve Myers
April 21, 2011

Theta Music Technologies has unveiled three new innovative games for music lovers, along with a host of new features in the latest version of its acclaimed online ear training system Theta Music Trainer. A new personal feedback feature makes Theta Music Trainer the world's first online ear trainer that can respond to students individually based on the results from their music games. Theta Music Technologies today added three new titles to its growing collection of music skill games, announcing the ...

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Music Matters

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
April 21, 2011

And in case we forget that music matters, there's an annual reminder staged by the MacPhail Center for Music in the form of their Music Matters Luncheon fundraiser. One of the nation's largest community music schools, serving well over 8,000 students from infants to centenarians, MacPhail is also one of the Twin Cities' oldest arts institutions, serving the community for 104 years. That's a lot of piano lessons, chamber ensemble rehearsals, faculty and student recitals, jazz camps, music therapy sessions ...

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Jazz Arts Group's Jazz Academy Workshop Opportunities with Bobby Sanabria, Ali Ryerson & Steve Rudolph

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2011

The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) offers a stellar line-up of music making opportunities to engage all ages and interests with workshops and clinics at the Jazz Academy community instructional space in the Lincoln Theatre complex. With nearly 5,000 square feet, the Jazz Academy is a premier facility for multi-generational and recreational music making, ensemble playing, after-school programs, technology instruction and lectures with world-class musicians. Join jazz and Latin-jazz artist Bobby Sanabria Thursday, April 28 at 7:00 PM as ...

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Fun for Fossils: New Age Piano Course Helps Seniors Get Creative

Source: Edward Weiss
April 18, 2011

Getting older doesn't mean creativity and fun have to stop. At least that's according to piano teacher Edward Weiss. Weiss teaches a style of piano known as 'new age.' And for those of you who have never heard a George Winston CD or the music of David Lanz, you're probably too young to appreciate this music. But for those of us nearing or passed retirement age, New Age music is nothing new. For most, it's a way to relax and ...

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Call for Artists: Summer Jazz Master Classes "SIM at Zatoka Sztuki" in Sopot, Poland

Source: MCKA Zatoka Sztuki
April 15, 2011

Summer jazz master classes “SIM at Zatoka Sztuki" August 21-27 2011 Sopot, Poland Multidisciplinary Centre of Culture and Arts MCKA “Zatoka Sztuki" in Sopot, Poland announces a call for summer jazz workshop led by the faculty from renown School of Improvisational Music in Brooklyn, New York: Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Ravi Coltrane (sax) Mark Helias (bass) Tyshawn Sorey (drums) The workshop is open to apply for all jazz musicians and students who are willing to ...

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