AUDITIONS FOR JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER'S MIDDLE SCHOOL JAZZ ACADEMY
Tuition-free intensive jazz instruction
Applications due March 10, 2008
WHO/WHAT: Jazz at Lincoln Center seeks promising middle school instrumentalists from New York City to apply and audition for its fourth year of Middle School Jazz Academy (MSJA), a tuition-free intensive jazz instruction program held throughout the school year.
ELIGIBILITY:
Students must:
- Have played an instrument for at least a year
-Be entering grades 6-8 for the 2008-09 school year
-Attend a school or live in one of New York City's five boroughs
-Be interested in learning more about jazz
-Preference given to students of families with limited means.
Each year Jazz at Lincoln Center selects 15 students from all five boroughs of New York City, in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades to be a part of MSJA. Each student is awarded a full tuition scholarship—based on application, audition and family interview—that provides intensive jazz instruction throughout the school year. The MSJA faculty, led by Director, Eli Yamin, is comprised of accomplished musicians deeply committed to teaching and mentoring today’s youth through innovative and effective methods.
Now in its fourth year, this unique program offers a course of study in instrumental performance, including Saturday Academy and weekly private lessons, as well as broader youth development activities. Students have the opportunity to meet and learn from outstanding faculty and guest musicians including members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
WHEN: Deadline for applications is March 10, 2008; late applications will be considered if audition space is available.
Auditions will be held:
Saturday, March 29, 3-6 p.m.
Frank Sinatra High School of the Arts
(30-20 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101)
Monday, March 31, 3-6 p.m.
I.S. 143 Eleanor Roosevelt School
(511 West 182nd Street, Washington Heights, NY 10033)
Wednesday April 2, 3-6 p.m.
Mark Twain School
(2401 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11224)
Thursday April 3, 3-6 p.m.
Institute of Collaborative Education
(345 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003)
HOW/WHERE: To obtain more information email:
msja@jalc.org, Call: 212-258-9789, or write: Jazz at Lincoln Center 33 W 60th. Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10023
Application available for download here:
www.jalc.org/msja
For more information about MSJA:
http://www.jalc.org/jazzED/s_msja.html
For bios on the faculty, visit:
http://www.jalc.org/about/pdf/MSJA_Faculty_2008-09.pdf
QUOTES: “The program taught my son and my family that jazz is not only a music style… it’s a lifestyle. It’s the way to demonstrate to the world that we are equal, no matter which color, religion, or where you come from, not even what you speak…just to bring your instrument and swing.”
– Stefanos DiFonis, MSJA Parent
“Middle School Jazz Academy welcomes middle school musicians into the creative and soulful world of jazz. Students make friends with each other and legendary jazz musicians. Within months, everybody is playing the blues, improvising on tunes and swinging as one voice.”
- Eli Yamin, Director of MSJA
CONTACT: Bridget Wilson, Assistant, Public Relations (212) 258.9868 or via email
bwilson@jalc.org
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The Middle School Jazz Academy is made possible with leadership support from the Altman Foundation and from The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.
Additional support for the Middle School Jazz Academy is provided by the Sally and Edward von Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust, Deutsche Bank, Little Johnny Koerber, Judith and John LaRosa, and Joseph Zemann.
Jazz at Lincoln Center gratefully acknowledges the Irene Diamond Fund for its major support of Irene Diamond Education Center programming.
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