Ccm spoleto summer program

The Jazz ensemble has been the top performing group at the Northern Kentucky Jazz Festival for the past five years, and was most recently selected to perform at the KMEA Conference.

This is the first group in Beechwood history to achieve this prestigious honor. Students from Beechwood have also achieved many individual honors, including numerous Select Bands, All State Groups, and college scholarships.

Craig is also an active private lesson instructor, teaching privately for the past 12 years. During his collegiate career, Mr. Craig also performed and competed at the and North American Saxophone Alliance conferences. In , Mr. For his playing, Joe has received outstanding awards for jazz from Interlochen and numerous festivals.

Along with saxophone, Joe Duran is proficient on several other instruments, including piano, clarinet, and flute. He is also active as a composer, songwriter, and arranger, working with several CCM ensembles such as the Brazilian Ensemble, Lab Band, Jazz Ensemble, and saxophone quartet. Joe has also scored and produced films including several submitted to the Sundance Film Festival since the age of seventeen. Brent Gallaher is a Cincinnati, Ohio based saxophonist and has resided there since He is an alumnus of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and was featured on their album Carnival of Life , which was released by Alissa Records in He toured with the ensemble from — and can be heard on their album Here We Go Again.

Gallaher was with the Dorsey band for just under a year. He returned to Dorsey in and was with them for an additional seven months. Gallaher has since been working as a freelance musician, private instructor and clinician. Gallaher recorded with Over the Rhine in the fall of , for their album Drunkard's Prayer. March marked the release of Gallaher 's second recording project titled Lightwave. Outside of these positions, Jennifer maintains a private studio of 35 students, and presents master classes on a variety of topics.

As a classical musician she has performed at several national, regional, and international conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance, World Saxophone Congress, and Ohio Music Educator's Association. As a jazz and commercial musician, she performs in a variety of groups and styles, including her own jazz groups, Orquesta Kandela, Azucor Tumbao and Souse.

Lindsey Jacob is a composer and saxophonist currently residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lindsey is an avid performer, composer, and advocate of contemporary works. She also frequently premieres and performs her own solo saxophone works, as well as pieces by fellow contemporary composers. Many of her recent compositions explore elements of timbre and feature transcriptions and adaptations from natural sources, specifically human speech patterns and bird songs.

Lindsey is an advocate for contemporary music and generates opportunities for new music to be heard by diverse audiences. New York and Boston based saxophonist Geoffrey Landman is a performer, teacher, and advocate of the saxophone and new music. Click here to visit Geoff's website. Kristin Lin studied with Dr. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She also was field commander of the Marching Firebirds for two years, attending the Rose Parade with them in Kristin has studied saxophone with Chris Brandenburg and Herb Aronoff; she also studied piano with Sheila Vail for nearly ten years.

Recently, Kristin worked with Dr. In , the first year of the symposium, Kristin worked as a staff member, playing in the ensemble and co-coaching the middle school quartet with Geoff Landman.

The same year she also worked with Dr. In , Kristin participated in the second CCM Saxophone Symposium as a faculty member, coaching the middle school quartet and leading the large ensemble. As a future music educator, she hopes to inspire students to excel beyond the obvious. Although parts of the theatre have been modernized, Caio Melisso still retains its old beauty and design, giving CCM Spoleto a fantastic venue to perform Opera in the season.

Technical students prepare lights to be hung at the Caio Melisso. Working with Italians is an important part of the experience for the Technical Students, as they become trained in an entirely different skill set.

Many theatres in Italy, such as Teatro Caio Melisso, still use rope-based systems that have been around for hundreds of years. The technical students learn how to use the rope system that does not use counter-weights or many of the other new technologies, which gives them a deeper understanding in the history of theatre.

Stay tuned for updates about the progress of load-in at Teatro Caio Melisso. Technical students in the cat-walk of the Caio Melisso, preparing ropes to hang lights and sets. The CCM Spoleto Festival, which is well known for offering an immense variety of performance and study opportunities in classical music such as chamber, orchestral, and vocal music added a twist to the fairly traditional program for Jazz. This season, 6 jazz students from the College-Conservatory of Music traveled to Spoleto, Italy with director Scott Belck to perform a variety of jazz music, compose and perform original pieces, and bring the quintessential American art form to the people of Italy.

When speaking with the students involved in the jazz program, they were very excited to be involved in the inaugural CCM Spoleto Jazz program and honored to have the opportunity to play jazz music in Italy. CCM Spoleto was able to sit down and interview the group after a morning Italian class.

Below are some highlights:. A: Not through universities and colleges. Not like this. CCM does have a student exchange program with another university in Brazil, but it is also only a 2 week program and very different in terms of the culture than the Spoleto CCM opportunity.

There are several other schools that have a student exchange program specifically for jazz or programs that are study abroad programs for jazz players only. There is no other program like this where jazz students are studying alongside classical music students as well.

A: For the most part, it has been extremely positive and people are genuinely excited to see us perform. The jazz sound, especially the smaller combo stuff we are playing, is very unique to this culture and people truly seem to love what they are hearing.

Instrumental music in general seems more respected and appreciated in Europe and the audiences want to experience chamber music and jazz music in the same evening. Also, we are able to interact with other students here more than we are in the typical university setting.

Musicians are not as segregated by section or type of music they typically play and we are able to hang out more. It is pretty sweet. Q: What is the best part about this festival for you?

A; Besides the fact that we get to play everyday and are really growing as musicians? The food. The food here is incredible. Also, Spoleto is exactly how I imagined Italy would be, it is like a fairy tale. The city is beautiful and the people are so friendly. It is nice to be able to somewhat communicate with people who speak an entirely different language after only one class. A: There are so many big name jazz players who come to Europe for jazz festivals.

The jazz festivals in Umbria and specifically Perugia would be great opportunities for collaboration and to see some of the jazz greats in action. Perhaps even set up some masterclasses with them? Now that would be pretty sweet! Gian Carlo Menotti's house in Spoleto, Italy. A special thing happened last Sunday in Spoleto. Sign me up! Blog at WordPress. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Kenneth Shaw.

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