SEEKING TALENTED MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSICIANS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECOND
YEAR OF JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER'S MIDDLE SCHOOL JAZZ ACADEMY
- Tuition-free intensive jazz instruction
- Applications due March 25, 2006
New York, NY (March 15, 2006) Jazz at Lincoln Center seeks promising
middle school instrumentalists from New York City to apply and auditio
n for its second year of Middle School Jazz Academy, a tuition-free in
tensive jazz instruction program held throughout the school year.
The course of study includes a series of music lessons and broader yo
uth development activities. Students will study jazz greats Duke Ellin
gton, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong as well as learn to improvise and p
lay an ensemble. The students attend private lessons on a weekly basis
in the Irene Diamond Education Center at Frederick P. Rose Hall on Br
oadway and 60th St. MSJA takes place weekly on Saturdays, October thro
ugh May, from 9am to 3pm.
Students of the inaugural class had the opportunity to meet with and
learn from Wynton Marsalis; Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Cente
r, as well as other members of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and A
fro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. Jazz legend Randy Weston worked with student
s to prepare his composition "Niger Mambo." They performed Mr. Weston'
s song for an audience of 200 people in their showcase concert. "The A
cademy is a place for middle school students to learn about and play j
azz and to celebrate the magic of the music together, with peers and m
entors, as a community," says Eli Yamin, Director of MJSA.
ELIGIBILITY
- Students must be in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade during the 2006-2007 sch
ool year.
- Students must attend a school or live in one of New York City's fiv
e boroughs.
- Preference given to students of families with limited means.
FOR A COMPLETE BROCHURE AND APPLICATION OR MORE INFORMATION:
Email:
msja@jalc.org
Call: 212-258-9789, or write:
Jazz at Lincoln Center
33 West 60th Street, 11th Floor
NY, NY 10023
Download application at
http://jazzlc.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=BkWMV
QA8AAEAAAjpAACdfA
Deadline: March 25, 2006, late applications will be considered if aud
ition space is available.
AUDITIONS
Saturday, April 1 and 29, 2006 (3-6pm)
M.S. 167 Robert Wagner School
220 East 76 Street
Saturday, April 8, 2006 (3-6pm)
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art & the Performing Arts
100 Amsterdam Ave. at 65th Street
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Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicate
d to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the
Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists,
Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued deve
lopment of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of perfo
rmance, education and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. Thes
e productions include concerts, national and international tours, resi
dencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, pu
blications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival,
a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children,
advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, mu
sic publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses
and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic
Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff, President
& CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown and Jazz
at Lincoln Center board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produc
e hundreds of events during its 2005-06 season. In October 2004, Jazz
at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever perfo
rmance, education and broadcast facility devoted to jazz.
Jazz at Lincoln Center wishes to acknowledge the generous support fro
m the Altman Foundation, William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, and Ka
ren Pritzker. Jazz at Lincoln Center acknowledges
The Irene Diamond Fund for its major support of Irene Diamond Educati
on Center Programming.
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