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We are pleased to announce the third annual TIAA-CREF All-Star Collegiate Jazz
Ensemble, which will be hosted by UNC Charlotte on October 3-5, 2008. You are
invited to audition to participate in this weekend of education and inspiration.
TIAA-CREF is funding this event, which will provide the opportunity for students
filling the standard instrumentation big band to experience intensive rehearsals
and a performance with other outstanding college students enrolled with
full-time status at schools in North and
South Carolina.
Students who are selected to
perform in the ensemble will be given stipends to help cover the cost of their
travel, meal, and accommodations.
Mike Steinel, a faculty member at the
University of
North Texas, has agreed to
be the clinician for the weekend. As a faculty member in their prestigious Jazz
Studies area of the UNT College of Music, Mr. Steinel has had the opportunity to
work with some of the country's finest young jazz musicians. He is also in great
demand as a guest artist, adjudicator and clinician, and authored
Building A Jazz
Vocabulary
and Essential Elements for Jazz
Ensemble. For more information on Mike Steinel,
please click here.
The first rehearsal will take place Friday evening, with intensive rehearsals
and sectional clinics on Saturday. Following two days of preparation, the
TIAA-CREF All-Star Collegiate Jazz Ensemble will perform in UNC Charlotte's
Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts on the afternoon of October 5. While we
invite an unlimited number of your students to audition, a maximum of six
students from any school will be accepted to insure that as many schools as
possible benefit from this event.
Auditions will be conducted through recording submitted by
eligible students.
The deadline for receipt of application
packets is August 27, 2008. Application materials must include the
following:
Recording
Information
All
Applicants:
The
audition recording (CD or cassette) must be labeled with the following
information:
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Students name
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Instrument (indicate specific saxophone; tenor or bass
trombone; section, lead, or solo chair trumpet)
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College/University
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Contact phone number/email
The audition recording should be of high
quality; however, it does not need to be produced in a professional studio.
The recording must include the following:
Winds,
Piano, Guitar, Bass:
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Audition etude
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Optional but
highly recommended:
Improvisation on F/Bb Blues or jazz standard of your choice
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Optional:
Additional track (live performance, studio recording, etc.)
Drums:
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Satch and Diz from
The Art of Bop Drumming by John
Riley (Warner Brothers) with
accompaniment track
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Optional:
Additional track (live performance, studio recording, etc.)
Application must be RECEIVED by August
27, 2008
Application
packet mailing address:
TIAA-CREF All-Star Collegiate Jazz Ensemble
c/o Dr. Will Campbell
UNC Charlotte Department of Music
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
For questions or
additional information, contact:
Dr. Will Campbell
UNC Charlotte Director of Jazz Studies
(704) 687-4402
EMAIL
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