<p>I am interested in summer jazz programs, especially abroad for this summer 2010. Please tell me any ideas or camps that fall into this category.
I want to do camps with auditions. I play jazz trombone if that helps.</p>
<p>I posted some links in you similarly titled second thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/870540-summer-2010-jazz.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/870540-summer-2010-jazz.html</a></p>
<p>There’s plenty of info in this forum, and I’d be happy to pass along some of the techniques I use in searching for previously posted info. It’s often more effective to see what’s here rather than post the same question within a few hour time frame.</p>
<p>Oberlin offers Oberlin in Italy for jazz this coming summer–information on the Oberlin website–an all-star faculty, headed by Robin Eubanks.</p>
<p>When my daughter participated, Oberlin in Italy was primarily an operatic program with a little classical chamber music but no Jazz component at all. Has that changed? I do not see anything on their web site to indicate that it has.</p>
<p>Oh wait, I just found it - Oberlin Jazz in Italy, a new program at <a href=“http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/summer/jazz/[/url]”>http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/summer/jazz/</a></p>
<p>Yes–new this year! My son isn’t going to apply for this year, but hopefully they’ll offer it next year as well. I think Robin Eubanks (trombone faculty) spends quite a bit of time in Italy. </p>
<p>Look at you–Mr. link guy!!! You rock, BassDad! thanks!</p>
<p>Recently started by jazzmom2553 <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/890262-2010-summer-jazz-camps.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/890262-2010-summer-jazz-camps.html</a></p>
<p>I can’t figure out how to start a new thread, but I am wondering if anyone has any input regarding summer jazz programs, especially abroad, for a very high level college junior (will be seniorafter summer 2013) at U of Miami. Looking for some broadening…alto player</p>
<p>Dear Music4, and anyone else interested in an International Music Program!
The Caux Artists Program is a fantastic international 2 week creative music program at an enormous castle-like resort overlooking Lake Geneva just above Montreaux, Switzerland. There are generally 20 - 30 serious young artists from around the world and a top ranked faculty, which this year includes world renowned jazz drummer Kenwood Dennard!
There are high level internationalconferences happening simultaneously (peace, cultural sustainability, conflict resolution, corporate responsibility, climate issues etc) The artists are able to attend lectures and perform at these forums, usually attended by 200-300 participants.
But, the cost is the real plus: $2000USD for two weeks including room, board, GREAT Swiss food and all tuition. The director, Bev Appleton wrote me yesterday - “The reality is . . . . artists would be coming to Caux for $55 a day including all instruction housing and 3 meals a day . . .one could not even just stay in Switzerland for $55 a day much less . . . . be in a spectacular place . … head down the mountain to the Montreux Jazz Festival . … mingle, network and perform for people from all over the world . .”
Applications are being accepted till April 1. There are ALSO scholarships up to $1000 available for qualified applicants.
All material can be found here: [Caux</a> Artists Program | Initiatives of Change International website](<a href=“http://www.iofc.org/caux-artists]Caux”>http://www.iofc.org/caux-artists)</p>
<p>My D has attended the following adult level camps (although she was still in high school). and I can answer questions if you want. Her interest has been vocal jazz. But she likes the hang with all the instrumentalists.</p>
<p>Banff Jazz Workshop - faculty in 2013 included Vijay Iyer, Esperanza Spalding, Ravi Coltrane, Dafnis Prieto, Ambrose Akinmusire, Theo Bleckmann, Ben Monder, Miles Okazaki, to name a few. You get the idea… Very competitive audition to get into this. Students included some established professionals from around the world. Part of a year round arts program that includes creative writing, visual arts, etc. that although is part of the program per se, definitely helps set the vibe of every thing feeding your art. For example, a collaboration between musicians and some poets that happened to be there was one of the experiences my D had.
[Banff</a> International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music ? Program Information ? The Banff Centre](<a href=“http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1303]Banff”>http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1303)</p>
<p>Stanford Jazz Workshop - summer long concerts on the weekend. 4 weeks of camps: jr high only day camp, 2 weeks of jr/sr high overnight camp, last week is not called “institute” (was called “residency”) for aspiring pros (the ones with day jobs), serious amateurs, college students and also high school hot shots by audition. auditions get you placed in appropriate combos. concerts every every from faculty or visiting artists are free for students but cost the general public around $20 and are worth every penny. jam sessions after the concert go until midnight. NEA masters like the Heath Brothers to rising stars like Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage and Ambrose Akinmusire, kind of recreate the handing down of knowledge from generation to generation the way jazz used to be learned.
<a href=“https://stanfordjazz.org/jazz-camp/[/url]”>https://stanfordjazz.org/jazz-camp/</a></p>
<p>Jazz Camp West - smorgasbord of classes including instrumental, vocal and dance. adult camp with a very few teenagers. Not a teenage scene at all really. I hear the jam sessions go to daybreak.
[Jazz</a> Camp WEST](<a href=“http://www.jazzcampwest.com/]Jazz”>http://www.jazzcampwest.com/)</p>
<p>UNT Vocal Jazz Camp - she has attended this, but you should check out the list of all the other summer camps at North Texas.
[Workshops</a> - Summer of 2013 | Division of Jazz Studies | College of Music](<a href=“http://jazz.unt.edu/workshops]Workshops”>Summer Workshops | Division of Jazz Studies)</p>
<p>UMass Jazz In July - jr high to college level. founded by Billy Taylor.
<a href=“https://fac.umass.edu/Online/JIJ[/url]”>https://fac.umass.edu/Online/JIJ</a></p>
<p>Centrum Port Townsend Jazz Workshop - near Seattle. John Clayton’s camp.
[Centrum</a> ? Jazz Port Townsend ? The Workshop](<a href=“http://centrum.org/jazz-port-townsend-the-workshop/]Centrum”>http://centrum.org/jazz-port-townsend-the-workshop/)</p>
<p>CSU Summerarts - summer programs proposed by California State University faculty. location has moved from Fresno to CSU Monterey Bay. Subjects vary summer to summer. But one year they had two weeks of jazz and improvisational music with Theo Bleckman, Ben Monder, Pacho Sanchez, Tim Ries and Josh Roseman. Kind of like two weeks of Brooklyn in Fresno.
[CSU</a> Summer Arts](<a href=“http://www.csusummerarts.org/courses2013/]CSU”>http://www.csusummerarts.org/courses2013/)</p>
<p>Litchfield Jazz Camp - jr high to college student will attend. but the auditions get you placed in appropirate combos. if you attend the last week you get to perform on a student stage at the Litchfield Jazz Festival.
[Litchfield</a> Jazz Festival & Jazz Camp - Litchfield Jazz Camp](<a href=“http://litchfieldjazzfest.com/jazz-camp/]Litchfield”>Litchfield Jazz Camp – Summer Jazz Camp in Connecticut. Ages 10 and up.)</p>
<p>Son just completed The Amsterdam Conservatory Keep an Eye on Jazz workshop. He is still in Europe, but from what I can tell he had a great time and really enjoyed it. It is only a week. And their scholarships do not cover housing or travel, but inexpensive housing is easy to find in Amsterdam.</p>
<p>Also Litchfield does not have a program for college students. Many college students who were HS campers there come back to fill RA positions, but they do not take classes and if they want private lessons they must pay for them.</p>
<p>@StacJip </p>
<p>A few thoughts…First, please read this quote from the Litchfield Jazz Camp website:</p>
<p>[Litchfield</a> Jazz Festival & Jazz Camp - Students](<a href=“http://litchfieldjazzfest.com/jazz-camp/students/]Litchfield”>Instrumental – Litchfield Jazz Camp)</p>
<p>“Students at the Litchfield Jazz Camp range in age from 13 to adult. Proficiency levels vary, and special effort is made to assign students to combos that are both comfortable and challenging. Students hail from 69 Connecticut towns and cities, 18 states and as far away as Argentina.”</p>
<p>My D’s experience was that she was in a combo with two brothers, one at (not entering) Temple and another at (not entering) Berklee. And both were quite good. It was considered one of the top combos as I recall.</p>
<p>Good data on the demographics is hard to find besides just first hand, anecdotal experience. True, the demo at Litchfield seemed to me to be skewed younger, especially among the instrumentalists. And perhaps the older students at Litchfield had been long time campers from jr or sr high and just loved the place, and not college students coming in off the street - I really just don’t know the details. </p>
<p>Similarly, UMass Jazz in July takes all comers. But in fact, the vocal program was skewed much older, with some college graduates and grad students wanting to have some time with NEA Jazz Master, grand lady and story teller, everybody’s grandmother, just the real deal, Sheila Jordan. I think the director of UMass Jazz in July was very much aware of the demographic issue and was very interested in developing new programming to meet the diverse interests and grow the camp. A tough challenge I would say catering to jr high to adults in attendance. Anyway, to a certain extent, with camps like UMass and Litchfield, I think there may be a few students that identify a particular faculty they really want to get some time with and go to the camp for that experience.</p>
<p>Another point…I recall that the Litchfield Camp’s literature at the time mentioned a jam session/gig at a bar/restaurant in Kent. I asked my daughter if she went to it. She said, disappointed, that only the campers over 18 could go off campus. Why advertise an activity like that if it is only for the RA’s? And wouldn’t prime time for the RA’s responsibilities be in the evening after the classes were done? And wouldn’t the RA’s be leading jam sessions on campus for the kids?</p>
<p>I can’t recall any camps really saying they have a “college program”. Typically they say jr or sr high, over 12/under 17, adult camp (with fine print for minors) etc. Some, like Stanford Jazz Residency (now Institute), is a week primarily for adults, and under 17 only by audition. </p>
<p>Skidmore Jazz Institute, which I get the impression is rather selective, says in its FAQs:
What is the average age of the students?
The Institute accepts students ages 15 to adult, and (though it varies slightly each year) the majority of students are in high school and college. </p>
<p>I think age is listed for most camps as a requirement to speak to the issues of dorm supervision and liability as much as talent. My observation is that talented young people can apply anywhere and play up but if they are minors the camp will have documents for the parents to sign and may have a heart to heart talk with the parents about the maturity of their student.</p>
<p>I think one key point of the original poster is the interest in doing camps with auditions. But they all have auditions. Some camps are highly selective and have auditions to get in (like Banff), and others are basically all comers, within certain age restrictions, and have placement auditions. And like I said, the ones with age restrictions on the low end, will take talented young people by audition. What camp wouldn’t want to be associated with a young Grace Kelly, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, etc. etc.?</p>
<p>Skidmore Jazz: Son enjoyed it and especially enjoyed working with some of the jazz legends. About 60-70% are high school students and the rest are younger college students. Somewhat selective but not tremendously so. Also, many of the students are local with the rest showing up from around the country.</p>
<p>JazzVocals-oops I had no idea. But when my son was there I did not hear anything about there being any college students or adults living on campus and attending. All the college+ students I know who are associated with Litchfield are either (or were) RAs or Junior Faculty. But I guess you learn something new every day.</p>
<p>Funny story about Litchfield Jazz camp- Music is a foreign language to me and my DH. So when our son said he wanted to attend Litchfield with his friends from HS after his sophomore year, I said sure. I filled out the forms and put down the deposit. I didn’t do a lot of research into it because our son told us about all the older kids in our town who had gone there and I trusted their parents. So then I go to my college’s 25th reunion. I hear an amazing Sax player at the talent night. I sort of remember him as a scrawny undergrad. Later I asked him what he did and he told me he was the director of Litchfield Jazz Camp. I was so embarrassed. I told him my son was going to attend and explained why I was so lax and did not even know who he was. Embarrassed…</p>
<p>@StacJip</p>
<p>Don Braden…nice guy…</p>
<p>The founding director of the Harvard Jazz Bands, Thomas Everett retired after over 40 years at Harvard. Don Braden will be coming back regularly as a guest conductor. My D is excited about the opportunity to work with him. </p>
<p>Not sure if he will remember her though…We’ll have to see if he does his homework.</p>