The Jacobs School of Music, A great choice for Jazz students!

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Greetings from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University!!  I am happy to give you an update on all of the great recent developments at IUJAZZ! . In addition to the storied instrumental jazz program, students can now MAJOR in jazz voice at IU!  Scholarships and graduate assistantships are available to qualified students.  We are proud  to announce that in addition to Professor of Jazz Voice Ly Wilder,  Darmon Meader has joined our faculty as  Adjunct Professor.  Plus, new  jazz faculty Dave Stryker and Wayne Wallace have joined the IU Jazz Department that includes David Baker, Jeremy Allen, Luke Gillespie,  Pat Harbison,  Steve Houghton, Michael Spiro, Joey Tartell, Brent Wallarab and Tom Walsh.

We are excited by all of the educational, performance and touring opportunities we are able to offer our students, including a recent invitation for our Vocal Jazz Ensemble I to perform at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC this spring.

I hope you will pass word along to any and all  interested students to include Indiana University  on the list of schools where they audition. We will be admitting very few jazz vocal majors each year, but all jazz voice majors study private jazz voice IMMEDIATELY upon entering our program, with no classical studies required.  Prescreening applications begin December 1 and more  audition information can be found at:

http://music.indiana.edu/admissions/auditions/jazz-voice.shtml

Please mark your calendars:

1) The Steve Zegree Vocal Jazz Camp (for high school and college students and teachers) will be held on the IU campus June 22-27, 2014.

More details forthcoming at:

http://www.music.indiana.edu/precollege/summer/steve-zegree-vocal-jazz-camp/index.shtml

2) The Chimes Holiday Concert is Wed. Dec 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the IU Auditorium (for an audience of about 3,000 people!!) featuring The IU Singing Hoosiers, Brent Wallarab Big Band, IU Vocal Jazz Ensemble I,  special guest Tim Noble, and an appearance from Santa!   Fun and family friendly!  Tickets still available:  http://www.iuauditorium.com

3) The IU  Singing Hoosiers Spring Concert is Saturday March 29 at 2 and 8 p.m. in the IU Auditorium, with special rates for high school groups.

I hope you will visit us online either on Facebook or at iujazz.com, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like further information about studies and opportunities at Indiana University.

All the best,

Darmon Meader appointed to IU Jacobs School of Music vocal jazz faculty BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce that Darmon Meader will join its faculty as adjunct lecturer in jazz studies and choral conducting this fall. Meader -- recognized in both the vocal and instrumental jazz worlds -- has achieved global recognition as founder, musical director, chief arranger, composer, producer, saxophonist and vocalist with New York Voices. He joins Steve Zegree, Pam and Jack Burks Professor of Music and director of the school's vocal jazz program, and Ly Wilder, visiting lecturer, on the vocal jazz faculty. "I am thrilled that Darmon Meader is joining the Jacobs faculty," said Zegree. "Darmon is internationally recognized as a founding member of New York Voices and also as an accomplished composer, arranger, jazz saxophonist and virtuoso scat singer. The new vocal jazz major at Indiana University -- combined with the already storied instrumental jazz program -- offers our students extraordinary educational experiences and performance opportunities." With New York Voices, Meader has collaborated with a variety of artists, including Ray Brown, Bernadette Peters, George Benson, Maureen McGovern, Don Sebesky, Nancy Wilson, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jim Hall, Paquito D'Rivera and the Count Basie Orchestra. He has worked as a clinician and guest artist at both the high school and university levels and has taught at numerous domestic and international music workshops, including the Inzigkoven Vocal Jazz Workshop in Germany, various International Association for Jazz Education Teacher Training Institutes, Steve Zegree Vocal Jazz Camp and the Vocal Pop and Jazz Days workshop in the Netherlands.

P.S.  My apologies if you received more than one of this email. If so, or if you'd like to be removed from my list, please let me know.

Dr. Steve Zegree

Pam and Jack Burks Professor of Music

Jacobs School of Music

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN 47404

szegree@indiana.edu

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