<p>Hi Everyone,</p>
<p>I just read the Music Festivals post & replies and thought some might find my Jazz Summer Camps list useful. My S, an alto sax player, will be attending the Jamie Aebersold and the UNT Jazz Combo camps.</p>
<p>2010 Summer Jazz Camps: Location, Dates, Cost</p>
<p>A. June</p>
<pre><code>Ohio State U June 21-25 450
Mason Dixon June 23-27 600
Florida State U June 20-July 2
NYU Sum Improv W June 29 2010 1800+890 3 weeks, 50 to apply (18 and older, 17 case by case basis)
U. North Florida June 28- July 2 485
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<p>B. July</p>
<pre><code> 1. U. North Texas Sax
Workshop July 6 - 11 2009
UNT Jazz Combo Workshop July 12-17 2009
- National Jazz Week July 11-16 475 (Shenahdoah U)
4.Rowan U. July 11-15 2010 675
Purchase College July 12-17 1550
Jamey Aebersold
Session A July 4-9 940
Session B July 11-16
University of Illinois at Urbana July 11-15 645
Eastman Summer Jazz June 27-July 9 2010 1810
2 weeks
9.MD Summer Music July 28-30 480
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<p>Thanks. I just linked this thread to a few other summer threads. The cross references may prove useful.</p>
<p>I’d like to add the Maine Jazz Camp, which my son (Grammy Jazz Ensembles bass player) attended for many years. It’s good, fun and relatively cheap. [Maine</a> Jazz Camp](<a href=“http://www.mainejazzcamp.com%5DMaine”>http://www.mainejazzcamp.com)</p>
<p>Berklee.edu Boston MA
5 week summer performance program July 10-Aug 14 2010 (expensive)</p>
<p>Don’t forget William Patterson’s Jazz Camp July 18-24th Cost: non resident $764, resident $1090</p>
<p>Price went up a lot this year.</p>
<p>Anyone received a reply yet?</p>
<p>Got it today: S is Accepted</p>
<p>TrumpetDad, my S went to the Eastman camp last year and loved it.</p>
<p>S#1 (jazz piano) just got accepted for the Skidmore Jazz Institute. S#2 (jazz trombone) will be attending the New York Summer Music Festival. If anyone is interested, Skidmore is still accepting applications for trumpet and trombone. My S is very excited about their lineup of guest artists this year.</p>
<p>My s went to Birch Creek in Door County, Wisconsin for the past three years. Many faculty members are from Eastman and the rest of the faculty are from other colleges or are professional musicians. The camp is two weeks and the kids have many concerts and performance opportunities in the Door County area. </p>
<p>2010 Dates:</p>
<p>Jazz I July 19 - 31
Jazz II Aug. 2 - 14
Cost is $1785</p>
<p>Anyone familiar with the Summer Jazz Improv Workshop at NYU-Steinhardt?</p>
<p>[Summer</a> Jazz Improv Workshop - Programs - Jazz Studies - NYU Steinhardt](<a href=“http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/jazz/programs/summer/workshop]Summer”>http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/jazz/programs/summer/workshop)</p>
<p>Stanford Jazz Workshop in July</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend a summer jazz program/camp for a 7th grader for double bass?</p>
<p>Ranaan Meyer (of Time For Three) has several camps. I’ve heard positive reports about them from members of the bass community. You can find links to them on his website.</p>
<p>Once he is 14, check out the William Paterson University Summer Jazz program. I do not know of many jazz programs other than the one glassharmonica mentioned geared toward younger students.</p>
<p>Thanks, Bassdad and Glassharmonica. I know Juilliard had an International Jazz Camp in Maryland last summer for grades 6 - 12, but I’m not sure if they are running it again this summer.</p>
<p>Adding Skidmore Jazz Institute for ages 15 to adult. Applications for this year (2011) are closed. They do offer financial aid. Todd Coolman, Jazz Bass prof from SUNY Purchase and a grammy winner is director. Bonus is that the students get to attend Freihofer Jazz Fest as part of tuition. Son will be attending this year and will let you know what he thinks.</p>
<p>So funny to me that nobody ever mentions Stanford Jazz Workshops. Dates are online. Both audition (residency) and non-audition. Both my sons have done and enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Stanford Jazz Workshops would be on our radar if we lived on the west coast. Instead, our summers are spent driving up and down the east coast.</p>
<p>S1 attended the Skidmore Jazz Institute last year, and thought it was top notch. The faculty members are well known performers. They also had top artists, such as Stefon Harris and Luis Bonilla, come in each week for master classes and performances. The students were mostly high school students, and my S thought they were all exceptional players. A few of the students, including my S, were rising college freshman, and 1 or 2 were already in college, but no one was older than that. In addition, Skidmore has a new performance hall, and it is absolutely stunning.</p>
<p>S2 (rising HS senior) applied to the Skidmore camp this year, but withdrew his application after he was accepted to the Eastman jazz camp. S1 did both camps (Eastman one year and Skidmore the next), and his advice to S2 was to do Eastman before Skidmore. In S1’s opinion, the Eastman jazz camp replicates the experience of a 1st year jazz studies major in college, which he says with even more conviction now that he’s finished his freshman year at IU. If there is any question in his brother’s mind about whether studying music in college is right for him, the Eastman experience will give him a good sense of what it’s like. S2 will apply to the Skidmore camp for next summer. </p>
<p>Just to get another perspective, S2 is also attending the summer jazz workshop at William Paterson this summer. If we had it to do over, he probably would have applied to the Rutgers camp instead since he’s interested in applying to the Rutgers jazz studies program next year. However, we weren’t aware of the Rutgers camp at the time, and have made other decisions that are now a conflict.</p>
<p>Jazzcat: great information. He is a rising college freshman and a few of his friends also rising freshman are going.</p>
<p>Thought I’d report back on Skidmore Jazz Institute 2011. Son, a rising college freshman, loved it and said that he learned more about Jazz than most people will in a lifetime. He had 3 private lessons and 2 Bass masterclasses. There were 55 students and 8 combos. Besides the professional Jazz musicians on the faculty, they brought in 3 different professional performing Jazz groups who gave master classes and concerts. The students had 2 concerts, 1 each week, and were able to sign up to play at a local venue on July 4th.
The accomodations were good, single rooms with ac and good food at the cafeteria.</p>