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| Maryland Summer Jazz Returns in July Maryland Summer Jazz, a three-day intensive workshop for jazz musicians and serious students of jazz, returns to Rockville, Maryland for its second season. Due to the popularity of the first program, a second session has been added to accommodate students who range in age from high school to retirement; some are gigging musicians, some aspiring. The program offers theory and technique classes and combo classes with loads of playing and improvisation culminating in a Friday night concert and student jam session. Students get plenty of opportunities to play with some of the finest professionals in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Sax player, bandleader, composer and teacher Jeff Antoniuk directs the program. From Alberta, Canada, Antoniuk is an adjunct faculty member at Towson State University near Baltimore, Maryland. The boot camp grew out of his adult-level Jazz Band Masterclass groups. (Antoniuk coaches seven different jazz combos in twice-monthly workshops in the Baltimore-Washington-Annapolis corridor.) The summer workshops offer even more hours of intensive training and mentoring. Students travel from many states to attend. The day camp is held at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church on Old Georgetown Road near Interstate-270. All faculty are professional musicians with substantial gigging and recording experience. Northern Virginians pianist Wade Beach and drummer Tony Martucci are highly sought players and members of Antoniuk's group The Jazz Update. Beach is on the faculty of George Mason University. Martucci teaches at the College of William and Mary. Bass player Tom Baldwin teaches at the University of Maryland. Trombonist Jim McFalls teaches at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and two area colleges. Guitarist Steve Herberman is on the faculties of the Levine School of Music and Towson State, and drummer Frank Russo teaches at Shepherd College in West Virginia and at Towson. The faculty-student ratio at Maryland Summer Jazz workshops is one instructor for every six students. Students play with each other and in combos with their teachers. Participants can sign up for one or for both sessions. The dates are July 19-21 and July 26-28. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |