#WomxnCrush Music (#WCM) has revealed plans for an unprecedented, fully-immersive, four-part virtual educational series to celebrate its Fourth Anniversary.
Friday, August 10, 2018 Showcasing students of the Vermont Jazz Center’s 43nd annual Summer Workshop perform in professionally coached ensemble, trio, and featured vocalist settings. Different concerts at 3:30 and 8 pm with break for dinner. At the idyllic Putney School in Vermont. $5 donation suggested. Michael S. Currier Center …
Danilo Pérez, president of the Danilo Pérez Foundation and artistic director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), and Patricia Zarate, executive director of Panama Jazz Productions and founder of the Latin American Music Therapy Symposium, are bringing students from the BGJI and Berklee’s music therapy program to Panama City, …
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Berklee-Umbria Jazz Clinics at the Umbria Jazz Festival (July 10-19) in Perugia, Italy, Berklee College of Music surprised the festival’s founder Carlo Pagnotta with the George Wein Impresario Award at a concert held on the eve of the festival. The George Wein Impresario Award …
A benefit to raise funds for the Basketball Peace Ambassadors program was held on June 26th at Gallery MC in New York, reported LeitmotivArts, an agency for the management and promotion of Balkan cultural events in America and organizer of this event. Basketball Peace Ambassadors initiative is headed by coach …
Berklee College of Music has named world-renowned trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and Blue Note recording artist Terence Blanchard as a visiting scholar in the Jazz Composition department beginning in the fall of 2015. Blanchard will also work in the Film Scoring and Brass departments, and for the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. …
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), the nationally acclaimed summer arts day camp whose August 3 Gala featured the World Premiere of a jazz work by Richard DeRosa, announces the first of its Open Houses for the 2012 season. It will take place on October 23 from …
PHOTO: Usdan 2010 Gala Concert — Leandra McNair and the Usdan Jazz Ensemble performing onstage. Photo by Pedro Sousa Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), the renowned not-for-profit summer arts day camp whose Jazz Department was founded in 1986 by legendary jazz artist/educator Dr. Billy Taylor, …
