The Future of Jazz Studies, with Brent Edwards, Kevin Fellezs, Farah Griffin, George Lewis, Robert O’Meally, John Szwed & Chris Washburne


The Center for Jazz Studies faculty celebrate its tenth anniversary.

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7:30 p.m..Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive, Columbia University Campus. RESERVATION ONLY. RSVP to ym189@columbia.edu
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Vital Transformations: Fusion's Young Discontents

Talk by Professor Kevin Fellezs



How jazz fusion's pioneers engendered what is now recognized as a new jazz idiom unto itself.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 8pm, 622 Dodge Hall, 116th Street and Broadway ,Columbia University Campus. Free and open to the public.


Blue Notes in Black & White: Photography  and Jazz

Talk and book signing with Ben Cawthra


An exploration of the partnership between two of the twentieth century’s most innovative art forms.


Wednesday, March 21 at 8:00 p.m. 622 Dodge Hall, 116th and Broadway, Columbia University Campus. Free and open to the public.

 



The Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute:


Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Continuing Innovation Grant to the Center for Jazz Studies and American Composers Orchestra for the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University has just received a $120,000 grant from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Continuing Innovation program to present an expanded version of its innovative Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. The Institute, a collaboration between the Center for Jazz Studies and American Composers Orchestra, engaged jazz composers in seminars and workshops on composing for orchestra and professional development during its first five-day Intensive in 2010-2011 and two days of Readings with the American Composers Orchestra, during which eight new works were rehearsed, performed and recorded.

 "We are honored to support the work of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University," said Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. "This year's grant competition was especially strong, and this grant is a testament to the important work the Center has done and will do for the entire jazz field.  We look forward to the expansion of the program and to the new works that will be fostered through it."
 
For the 2012-13 JCOI, in addition to Columbia and American Composers Orchestra (ACO), UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music will serve as educational partner to present an expanded Intensive in both New York City and Los Angeles. Other project partners include the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (New York), Stockton Symphony and La Jolla Symphony (California).

After a national call for applications in early 2012, an adjudication panel will select up to 35 jazz composers for a new five-day Intensive, to be held in summer 2012 at UCLA, where the composers will work with seven leading composers, conductors and performers selected by ACO and CJS.  Then, in winter 2012 and spring 2013, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings will be held with up to four orchestras in California, Buffalo and Chicago, as well as with ACO's Readings in New York City. This will provide the opportunity to select up to 16 composers from the 35, greatly expanding the reach and impact of the project from the 2010-2011 meetings.

"The 2010-2011 New York-based Institute was incredibly successful" said John Szwed, Director of the Center for Jazz Studies. "Now the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has made it possible to spread this pioneering work across the country."


Deadline for composer applications is April 16, 2012

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