PENFIELD, NY: A Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp will become part of the summer curriculum of the legendary Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, June 17-22, 2012.
Tritone Jazz at Interlochen will be added to Tritone's two other camps, Tritone Cool on the Lake at Bjorklunden, Baileys Harbor, WI, (July 8-13); and Tritone Jazz at Naz, at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY (July 22-27).
The increasingly popular Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps, designed exclusively to provide personalized jazz instruction in jazz improvisation, big-band, and combo playing for adult instrumentalists and singers, have been offered every summer since 1998.
The Tritone Jazz at Interlochen faculty will include:
Darmon Meader (voice), founder and creative director of the New York Voices
Jim Pugh (trombone), who has played with everyone from Woody Herman to Chick Corea to Yo-Yo Ma to Steely Dan and is well known to listeners of NPR
Bill Carrothers (piano), a leader on 21 recordings and a sideman for jazz luminaries such as Buddy DeFranco, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Billy Higgins, Lee Konitz, James Moody, and Toots Thielemans
Jim Fox (guitar), a high-demand Los Angeles studio musician and instructor, currently touring with Frank Sinatra Jr.
Clay Jenkins (trumpet), a mainstay of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and a faculty member at the renowned Eastman School of Music
Steve Houghton (drums & percussion), author of more than 20 instructional works for jazz rhythm sections and a faculty member at Indiana University
Jose Encarnacion (reeds), current jazz faculty member at Lawrence University and former faculty member at the Eastman School of Music
Ike Sturm (bass), a busy freelance bassist and jazz director of St. Peter's Church (the fabled “Jazz Church") in NYC Tritone at Interlochen will be directed by Tritone co-owner Fred Sturm, chair of Jazz and Improvisational Music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI.
Tritone Jazz at Interlochen will be added to Tritone's two other camps, Tritone Cool on the Lake at Bjorklunden, Baileys Harbor, WI, (July 8-13); and Tritone Jazz at Naz, at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY (July 22-27).
The increasingly popular Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps, designed exclusively to provide personalized jazz instruction in jazz improvisation, big-band, and combo playing for adult instrumentalists and singers, have been offered every summer since 1998.
The Tritone Jazz at Interlochen faculty will include:
Darmon Meader (voice), founder and creative director of the New York Voices
Jim Pugh (trombone), who has played with everyone from Woody Herman to Chick Corea to Yo-Yo Ma to Steely Dan and is well known to listeners of NPR
Bill Carrothers (piano), a leader on 21 recordings and a sideman for jazz luminaries such as Buddy DeFranco, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Billy Higgins, Lee Konitz, James Moody, and Toots Thielemans
Jim Fox (guitar), a high-demand Los Angeles studio musician and instructor, currently touring with Frank Sinatra Jr.
Clay Jenkins (trumpet), a mainstay of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and a faculty member at the renowned Eastman School of Music
Steve Houghton (drums & percussion), author of more than 20 instructional works for jazz rhythm sections and a faculty member at Indiana University
Jose Encarnacion (reeds), current jazz faculty member at Lawrence University and former faculty member at the Eastman School of Music
Ike Sturm (bass), a busy freelance bassist and jazz director of St. Peter's Church (the fabled “Jazz Church") in NYC Tritone at Interlochen will be directed by Tritone co-owner Fred Sturm, chair of Jazz and Improvisational Music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI.
