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Broadway and 60th Street
New York, NY 10019
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Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm
Sun: 12pm-6pm
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A multi-day workshop for band directors, taking place in the summer at New York City’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Classes are led by prominent jazz educators and focus on the essentials of teaching jazz, emphasizing hands-on learning and providing practical techniques.
General Information
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 14th Annual Band Director Academy
“Big Band Rehearsal Techniques”
This year’s Academy will be held June 29-July 1, 2013 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, in New York, New York.Are you new to conducting jazz band? Are you a veteran jazz band director looking for new ways to work with your big band? Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Band Director Academy (BDA) offers powerful insights into the teaching of jazz and emphasizes hands-on learning and techniques that can be immediately applied to the classroom. This year, the Academy will be split into two separate tracks: one for beginning/intermediate-level jazz band directors, and the other for advanced directors with years of jazz band experience. Beginners start with the basics of theory and the culture and history of jazz, while the advanced group, led by the country’s leading jazz band directors, will include seminars that delve deeper into effective rehearsal strategies, best practices and appropriate repertoire selection for your group.
The four-day session includes hands-on classes with a student demo band, jam sessions, topic discussions and a faculty concert. Whether you’re a music education student or a veteran teacher, BDA offers tips and techniques for a deeper understanding of, and passion for, teaching jazz.
Faculty to include:
Ron Carter
Director of Jazz Studies, Northern Illinois UniversityStephen Massey
Director, Foxboro High School jazz band (Foxboro, MA)Reginald Thomas
Professor of Music, Michigan State UniversityRodney Whitaker
Director of Jazz Studies, Michigan State UniversityOthers TBD
2013 Academy Tuition
$350 / General Tuition
$300 / 2012-13 Essentially Ellington members
$250 / Undergraduate or Graduate music education studentsTravel Reimbursement Scholarships
JALC is pleased to offer scholarships to directors who need assistance in covering the cost of attending BDA. These monetary awards are intended to help defray costs of transportation and accommodations, and will range from $50 to $350 per person. Scholarships will not cover all travel and accommodation expenses.
To apply for a scholarship, please submit a letter on your school’s letterhead indicating the following:
- Estimated total expenses for transportation and hotel costs
- Anticipated income from your school, band boosters, self, and others
- Short paragraph explaining your financial situation, anticipated fundraising events, special circumstances, and any other information you may deem important
Submit scholarship requests by May 22 to:
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Attn: BDA Scholarships
3 Columbus Circle, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Checks are disbursed at registration on the first day the session.Full Scholarships
Full scholarships including tuition, airfare or ground transportation, and accommodations will be awarded to five band directors whose entries for the 2013 Essentially EllingtonHigh School Jazz Band Competition & Festival are ranked just after the 15 finalists. Previous full scholarship winners are not eligible.
Jazz at Lincoln Center's Band Director Academy is pleased to announce that we will again be partnering with SUNY Potsdam' Crane School of Music to offer graduate credit for participation. Both one and two-credit options are available at the following costs:
1-credit: $370 plus $19.60 in fees for a total of $389.60
2-credit: $740 plus $34.20 in fees for a total of $788.20In order to receive credit, each participant will submit a typed, double-spaced paper (5 pages per credit) postmarked by July 30 that (1) briefly summarizes the content of the sessions attended and (2) describes how this content contributes to your professional development and informs your work as a music educator. Please mail completed papers to:
Bret Zvacek
Crane School of Music
44 Pierrepont Ave.
Potsdam, NY 13676To register, please go to http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/ExtEd/summer/index.cfm and click on "Application." Once the application is complete, please send to Katie Logan of Extended Education at SUNY Potsdam in any of the following ways:
Email: logankm@potsdam.edu
Fax: 315-267-3088Katie Logan
Extended Education
206 Raymond Hall
SUNY Potsdam
44 Pierrepont Ave.
Potsdam, NY 13676Please be aware that while a transcript is not necessary, a copy of your undergraduate diploma will be required. All students will pay in-state tuition regardless of whether or not they reside in New York.
Schedule
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Friday, June 28
2:00pm – 3:00pm Registration
3:00pm – 6:00pm Introductory/Refresher Courses
6:00pm – 7:00pm Dinner Break
7:00pm – 8:30pm Film screening: CHOPSSaturday, June 29
9:00am – 12:30pm Classes
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm – 6:00pm Classes
After 6:00pm Free night in NYCSunday, June 30
9:00am – 12:30pm Classes
12:30pm – 2:00pm Brown Bag Lunch Conversation
2:00pm – 6:00pm Classes
6:00pm – 7:30pm Dinner Break
7:30pm – 9:00pm Jam SessionMonday, July 1
9:00am – 12:30pm Classes
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm – 5:00pm Classes
5:00pm – 6:00pm Q&A and Wrap-up
6:00pm – 9:00pm Dinner and Faculty Concert at Dizzy’s Club Coca-ColaBasic schedule, subject to change.
All events held at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway and 60th St. Your Visit
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All Academy events take place at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. We are conveniently located in Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan, at Broadway and 60th Street.
Getting Here
There are three major airports in and around New York City: John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Newark International Airport. All three have public transportation in and out of Manhattan. You can also take a taxi to and from the airport.
Taxi rates from airport to Manhattan:
LaGuardia: approx. $35
JFK: $52
Newark: approx. $60
*Note - these rates do not include tips, tax or tolls.The train is a great option for those travelling along the East Coast. Amtrak, NJ Transit and the Long Island Rail Road run through Penn Station. Grand Central Station offers service via Metro-North railroad. Both stations are conveniently connected to the NYC subway system.
If you are planning to drive to New York, please visit nyc.bestparking.com for parking information.
Getting Around New York
Columbus Circle is easily accessible by the New York City Subway system. The A, B, C, D and 1 trains stop at 59th Street-Columbus Circle and run every day. Subway rides are $2.25 per ride.
You may also opt to take a a taxi in and around the city. Taxis in New York are metered fare.
Or you can walk! It is easy to walk around midtown Manhattan and we are not far from attractions such as Times Square, Central Park and Lincoln Center.
Meals
Dinner at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Colaon July 2, as well as a brown bag lunch on July 1, is included in your tuition. BDA participants are responsible for purchasing all other meals. A list of local restaurants will be provided.
For more information on New York City, including tips on getting around, what to see and do and where to stay, please visit nycgo.com
Faculty Bios
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Rodney Whitaker
Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University, Rodney Whitaker is one of the leading performers and teachers of jazz double bass in the United States. He was a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for many years, and received national recognition performing with the Terence Blanchard Quintet. Whitaker has toured internationally as a featured performer with the Roy Hargrove Quintet, and has played on more than 150 recordings, from film to compact discs. He also composed the score for the film China, directed by Jeff Wray, which aired on PBS in 2003. A proven and committed jazz educator, Whitaker has presented numerous master classes around the world at locations such as Osaka College of Music, Kunitachi College of Music, Music For All, Duke University, International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) conferences, Howard University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, the New School (NY), and Lincoln Center. In addition, he is the Artistic Director of the Michigan State University Professors of Jazz, the Detroit Civic Jazz Ensembles and a Mack Avenue recording artist. Whitaker has served on the faculties of University of Michigan and Juilliard Institute of Jazz.
Reginald Thomas
Reginald Thomas can be seen fronting his own groups (Mardra/Reggie Thomas Ensemble; OGD) on both piano and Hammond organ, and as a sideman with great artists including Hamiet Blueitt, Ann Hampton Callaway, and the Carl Allen/Rodney Whitaker Ensemble. Most recently he was the accompanist for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Reggie continues to appear as a guest artist at collegiate jazz festivals around the country including Lawrence University, the University of South Florida, and Texas Tech University. He has also performed internationally in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Milan, Italy; Warsaw and Poznan, Poland; Senegal, West Africa; and London, England. Recordings include work with Clay Jenkins, Kim Richmond, and Clark Terry/Mike Vax, as well as his own recordings Fade to Blue with wife Mardra (MaxJazz), Standard Time (Victoria) and 4 (Jazz Compass). He has been awarded the Excellence in the Arts award from the Greater St. Louis Arts and Education Council and was named in the Riverfront Times 2005 "Best of St. Louis" issue as Best Jazz Artist. After almost 20 years as professor of music at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Professor Thomas joined the faculty of Michigan State University in the fall of 2011. He is a consultant/clinician for Jazz at Lincoln Center, working with the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Program and Band Director Academy, and has served on several summer jazz faculties across the country and abroad, including the International Association for Jazz Educators Teacher Training Institute; the Birch Creek Music Center; the Eastman School of Music Summer Jazz Camp; Summer Jazz Academy in Chodziez, Poland, and the Barbican Center in London. He remains an active clinician/adjudicator at colleges throughout the country and at conventions of the International Association for Jazz Educators (IAJE) and its successor, the Jazz Education Network (JEN). Thomas has directed All State Jazz Bands, Combos and Jazz Choirs in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, South Dakota and Tennessee and directed the first ever Missouri All-College Jazz Band.
Ronald Carter
One of the most versatile and sought-after clinicians in jazz education, Ronald Carter is Professor of Music at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and Director of its Jazz Studies program. In addition to ten years as jazz chairman for the Illinois Music Educators’ Association, Mr. Carter has served as a guest conductor, artist, clinician, and adjudicator for numerous universities, colleges, and high schools. Among his honors and awards are NIU Board of Trustees Professorship 2009, DownBeat magazine’s Jazz Educators’ Hall of Fame, The Woody Herman Music Award, the 1991 Milken Foundation National Distinguished Educator Award, Southern Illinois University’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and the St. Louis American Newspaper’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Mr. Carter is an artist/clinician for renowned instrument maker Conn/Selmer, Inc. He has been involved with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Program since 1997, leading in-school workshops, judging Competition entry recordings, and serving as an educational consultant and as the Director of the Band Director Academy.