Summer Jazz at UIC

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Registration is Now Open for 4th Annual
CJP/UIC Jazz Academy

JULY 16 — 27, 2012
Monday - Friday: 8:30 am — 5:00 pm

Elementary School Students (grades 5 - 8)
High School Students (grades 9 - 12)

Register for CJP/UIC SUMMER Jazz Academy

Registration Fee:
$250 for Registration
$175 for CJP Jazz Alive Partner School
$200 for Early Bird Registration (Deadline April 30th, 2012)

Registration fee covers the cost of lunch and all Jazz Academy materials.

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What?

Chicago Jazz Philharmonic/UIC Jazz Academy is a UIC sponsored summer program that builds on CJP's school year programming known as JazzAlive. Students will develop skills and knowledge about music and performance through participation in various ensembles such as Jazz Band, Drumline, and Handchimes. Additional courses offered range from Jazz Aesthetics to Instrumental Technique.

Located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the camp will open up new opportunities for the participants. Students will:

• Enhance their jazz education annually from grade school through high school by participating in the jazz academy.
• Have unique opportunities to play alongside and perform with professional CJP Artists-in-Residence in a culminating event.
• Have the opportunity to develop their musical skills
• Have access to private practice rooms, rehearsal halls, and performance venues.
• Learn important life skills, such as setting goals, time management, team work, communication, and positive interaction with their peers.
• Encounter specific campus-based activities that will introduce students to a college campus, while encouraging them to seek higher education.

Why?

Chicago Jazz Philharmonic/UIC Jazz Academy helps resolve three critical issues:

The need for children in underserved communities to become interested in pursuing higher education

The lack of sustained music education from grade school through high school

The need to preserve jazz as a genre for the next generation

The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic/UIC Jazz Academy will connect students to an outstanding institution of higher learning. This exposure helps students break down perceived barriers to higher education and enhances their chances for life-long success.

Where?

University of Illinois at Chicago,
Department of Theatre and Music (DTM)

• UIC is conveniently located on the near west side of
  Chicago and it is easily accessible by car, train, and bus.
  
  
• More than 25,000 students who study at UIC come from
  the city of Chicago, its suburbs, from all 50 states, and
  95 foreign countries.
  
  
• DPA is committed to music and theatre as forms of artistic expression that have a crucial role to play in the cultural, intellectual, social, and political life of the community in
  which they exist, and in the world as a whole.
  
  
• DPA is housed in the College of Architecture and the Arts, which also includes the Schools of Architecture, Art and Design, and the Department of Art History.
  
  
• UIC Theatre and Music faculty hold national and international credentials as artists, teachers, and/or scholars.

Who?

Director of UIC Jazz Studies

Orbert Davis has a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from DePaul University and a Masters of Music in Jazz Pedagogy from Northwestern University. In addition to being a world-renowned jazz musician, he is a composer and conductor and the Founding and Artistic Director for the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. His two critically acclaimed recordings, Priority and Blue Notes, both reached the top ten on the national JazzWeek jazz charts. Davis is Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies in UIC's Department of Theatre and Music.

Chair

Mr. Collerd holds B.A. and M.M. degrees from Yale University where he studied clarinet with Keith Wilson and conductied with Otto-Werner Mueller. He has also studied with clarinetists Anthony Gigliotti, Robert Marcellus, and Richard Stoltzman.

He is a Professor of Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs the String Ensemble and teaches clarinet. He joined the Elgin Symphony as principal clarinetist in 1990 and also plays principal clarinet with Chicago Opera Theater, assistant principal clarinet with the Grant Park Symphony, and is a member of the Chicago Wind Quintet and the chamber orchestra Ars Viva. In 1992 he performed as a soloist with the Elgin Symphony in Weber's Concerto No. 1. That same year he won the woodwind prize in the Southeast Iowa Symphony Concerto Competition and made several solo appearances with that orchestra.