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Music Industry Leadership 101 is Latest Educational Initiative from Usher's New Look
This week Usher's New Look nonprofit officially announced their new “Music Industry Leadership 101" program for high school students. It's currently being piloted in a number of schools. Recent news coverage gives a nice sense of how the program will both introduce kids to career paths in the music industry and connect what they're learning to ...
Jazz Arts Group Announces Winner Of Hank Marr High School Jazz Award
Columbus, OH - The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has announced its winner of the 2014 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst 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 ...
Usdan Center May 19 Final Open House For 2014; Full Jazz Program
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally acclaimed summer arts day camp, announces several new programs for its 2014, 47th season: Musical Theater Dance and Musical Theater Audition Workshop, both for grades 7- 12; and Sewing and Fashion Production, for grades 4-12. The Center, whose alumni include Natalie Portman, Mariah Carey and Jane ...
Fourplay Guitarist Chuck Loeb Offers Personalized Online Lessons At The ArtistWorks Jazz Guitar School
NAPA, CA –Grammy Award nominated jazz guitarist Chuck Loeb is the latest marquee artist to bring his teaching mastery to ArtistWorks.com, a first-of-its-kind online music and art campus that provides members with personalized interaction with acclaimed musicians and artists. Tens of thousands of members in nearly 100 countries have improved their playing within ArtistWorks’ unique online ...
Creative Music Studio's Spring Workshop June 9-13
The Creative Music Studio continues its resurgence, offering two four- day workshops in 2014 at the well-appointed Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. Master musicians/educators Joe Lovano, Henry Threadgill, Tyshawn Sorey, Marilyn Crispell, Peter Apfelbaum, Judi Silvano, and Warren Smith will join CMS Artistic Directors Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as Guiding Artists for the ...
$500,000 Gift To Fund Jazz Scholarships At Brubeck Institute
A contemporary of Dave and Iola Brubeck who gained his own success as the vice president of public relations for Pan American World Airways has given University of the Pacific a $500,000 gift that will enable talented musicians for generations to study at the prestigious Brubeck Institute. Richard N. Barkle, who studied speech at then-College of ...
NJPAC and Montclair State University Launch New All-Female Jazz Education Residency for Summer 2014
Grammy-Nominated New Jersey Pianist Geri Allen to Serve as Artistic Director New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), in collaboration with Montclair State University will offer a new, All-Female Jazz Residency as part of NJPAC’s arts education offerings. The residency will be led by Grammy-nominated New Jersey pianist Geri Allen, who will serve as the program’s artistic ...
Philadelphia Jazz Guitar Legend Chuck Anderson Launches Online Program To Teach Jazz Guitarists Worldwide
Jazz Guitarist, Composer and Master Teacher Chuck Anderson has launched a new online jazz guitar program for jazz guitar students worldwide. Currently, Anderson, who has been called a jazz prodigy and master jazz guitarist, mentors jazz guitar students who come from four states surrounding his suburban Philadelphia studio to study jazz guitar with him. A guitar ...
NJPAC's Brick City Jazz Orchestra debuts in Newark's Branch Brook Park
Music blossomed in Newark when the Brick City Jazz Orchestra made its premiere under blue skies. With the opening notes of Kenny Dorham’s “Blue Bossa,” NJPAC’s Brick City Jazz Orchestra heralded its official debut in Newark’s Branch Brook Park. The sun was hot, but the student musicians were the epitome of cool. The park’s famed cherry ...
New York Jazz Academy Summer Jazz Intensives, Nyc Music Camps For Adults And Teens, Now Enrolling
MAKE THIS SUMMER YOUR HOTTEST YET NEW YORK, NY: New York City’s acclaimed music school, New York Jazz Academy, 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 ...
