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| Litchfield Jazz Camp Opens Registration - Summer 2008 Litchfield Jazz Camp (est. 1997), recently featured in the JazzTimes Education Guide, TIME Magazine and on CNN, opens enrollment for this summer with new and expanded courses. For those interested in jazz composition, a course will be taught by award-winning composer Mario Pavone. The camp also offers a two-week intensive, Jazz Production and Recording Engineering, taught by Ed Tetreault, Manager of Peabody Conservatory Recording Arts & Sciences, and Paul Bollenback, jazz guitarist and record label owner. In addition to its all-star faculty, Litchfield Jazz Camp welcomes back great soprano saxophonist Dave Liebman as a guest clinician and, for the first time, vocal instructors Vanessa Rubin and multi-Grammy nominated vocalist/pianist Karrin Allyson. The Jazz Camp's music director is saxophonist/composer/educator Don Braden. A major figure on the jazz scene, he is also well known for his compositions for Bill Cosby's television projects. Litchfield Jazz Camp teaching artists include trumpeters Louise Baranger, Dave Ballou, Jeremy Pelt, Valery Ponomarev, and Jack Walrath, bassists Luques Curtis, Marcus McLaurine, Mario Pavone, Dave Santoro, Joris Teppe, pianists Peter Madsen, Andy Jaffe and Rachel Z, guitarists Paul Bollenback and Dave Stryker, drummers Alvin Atkinson, Rogerio Boccato, Winard Harper, Jeff Hirshfield and Steve Johns, saxophonists Kris Allen, Claire Daly, Mike DiRubbo, Jimmy Greene, Tony Malaby and Lauren Sevian, trombonist Peter McEachern and vocalists Vanessa Rubin and Karrin Allyson. All faculty members are international touring artists, award winners and educators affiliated with institutions like Berklee, New School, Juilliard, NEC, Manhattan School of Music, Hartt School and more. Litchfield Jazz Camp welcomes students ages 13 to adult. It also offers need-based scholarships to motivated Connecticut middle and high school students. The camp's home is the country campus of Forman School, in Litchfield, Connecticut. This lovely setting, which models a Colonial village, is just a block from one of America's most visited 18th century villages. All students learn in an intensive but noncompetitive environment. They work in skill-matched combos, at camp and on the Gazebo Stage at The Litchfield Jazz Festival. Camp admission requires no qualifying audition, just a solid commitment to making great music. At a minimum, however, beginners should have basic instrumental and reading skills. Instruction is offered in voice, piano, guitar, bass, drums, Latin rhythms, saxophones, trombone, clarinet, flute, and brass. Evening jam sessions and resident and visiting artist concerts are a bonus feature. Litchfield Jazz Camp Sessions run July 6-11, July 13-18, July 20-25, and July 27-August 1. Support for Litchfield Jazz Camp comes from the State Department of Education, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Friendship Fund, Steinway & Sons, Crystal Rock, DownBeat and Republican-American. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |