Grace Testani and NYU offer NEW Vocal Jazz Workshop

[Grace Testani]

Grace Testani and The Singers Center team up with NYU to offer new Vocal Jazz Workshop

New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies to offer “All That Jazz … Singing Workshop” taught by renown jazz singer and educator, Grace Testani, Director of The Singers Center.

New York, NY, April 1, 2004: NYU will offer a 10-session Vocal Jazz workshop entitled “All That Jazz … Singing Workshop” (course ID: 44508) beginning Monday May 17, 2004 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. The course will be taught by Grace Testani, Director of The Singers Center. Anyone who has ever dreamed of becoming a jazz singer is welcome – amateurs and professionals alike.

If you always wanted to sing jazz, here is your opportunity! As a professional singer and long time educator, Ms. Testani has designed this course to unleash the student’s creativity in a fun, performance-oriented environment. Students can expect to learn how to interpret songs and scat (improvise), choose repertoire, transpose songs into their own key, determine styles and tempos that works best for them, and create simple arrangements -- all with live accompaniment.

Grace Testani

In addition to performing in the major Jazz clubs in New York (Birdland, Blue Note, Village Gate, to name a few), Grace is also co-writer with Chick Corea and Kenny Barron. She performs with top musicians such as Jim McNeely, Mike Richmond, Chip Jackson, Adam Nussbaum, Danny Gottlieb, Harry Whittaker, Michael Abene, and Kenny Werner and is a recording artist for Grace Notes Records. In addition to singing, arranging, composing and playing keyboards, Grace has been a music educator since 1983. Formerly on the faculties of The New School (the Guitar Study Center), Drummers Collective/SOJ Contemporary Music Studios and The Hebrew Arts School (Abraham Goodman House), a tutor for New York University (Gallatin Division), F.I.T. and Empire State College, adjudicated at the Reno, NV Jazz Festival and has co-lead workshops with Sheila Jordon, Jay Clayton, and Janet Lawson. Grace is the founder and Director of The Singers Center – http://www.gracenotesmusic.com

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Registration
NYU SCPS
All That Jazz … Singing Workshop (course ID: 44508)
Tel: (212) 998-7171
www.scps.nyu.edu