MPP: Taking a Break and Looking Ahead
MPP SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
1) Calling all Chamber Ensembles! MPP Auditions 3/27/09.
CU student chamber groups are welcome to compete for a chance to perform at our annual spring semester Gala Chamber Concert, which will take place in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall on April 20th. Auditions will be held on Friday, March 27, 2009 from 9-11AM in 405 Dodge Hall. You must sign up ahead of time at 618 Dodge Hall (MPP Office).
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2) Rapaport Prize for Summer Study. Applications available now on the door of 618 Dodge.
Deadline Friday, March 27th before 12 noon. Open to Columbia College students only, the Richard Rapaport Prize awards funds for summer study at a music festival of your choice. Funds are available for composers and conductors as well. Applications will be collected by the MPP on March 27, but you must have already applied and/or been accepted to a summer program by that time. For further information, email mpp@columbia.edu.
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CU student chamber groups are welcome to compete for a chance to perform at our annual spring semester Gala Chamber Concert, which will take place in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall on April 20th. Auditions will be held on Friday, March 27, 2009 from 9-11AM in 405 Dodge Hall. You must sign up ahead of time at 618 Dodge Hall (MPP Office).
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2) Rapaport Prize for Summer Study. Applications available now on the door of 618 Dodge.
Deadline Friday, March 27th before 12 noon. Open to Columbia College students only, the Richard Rapaport Prize awards funds for summer study at a music festival of your choice. Funds are available for composers and conductors as well. Applications will be collected by the MPP on March 27, but you must have already applied and/or been accepted to a summer program by that time. For further information, email mpp@columbia.edu.
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Columbia University Jazz Composers Collective to Premiere New Works
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program at Columbia University and the Music
Department is pleased to announce the debut concert of the CU Jazz Composers Collective
on Friday February 27 at 8:00pm in Miller Theatre. Conducted by Professor Chris
Washburne, the Collective is composed of current graduate and undergraduate Columbia
University students as well as alumni and faculty and the concert will premiere new jazz
works. Washburne envisions the event as a platform for emerging student composers, as
well as a unique reunion opportunity for renowned jazz musicians who have passed through
Columbia's gates over the years integrating the past, present, and future of jazz at
Columbia in one big evening.
The concert will mark the launching of the Collective as they unveil a set of new and
innovative works for jazz combo and big band. Featured will be some of the most talented
student performers from across the University's campus, as well as promising students of
the Columbia Music Department's Composition Program, including Patrick Zimmerli, Steve
In Search of the Lost Riddim: The Jamaican Jazz Connection
Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies in collaboration with Harlem Stage Presents
In Search of the Lost Riddim: The Jamaican Jazz Connection
featuring
Cedric Brooks (saxophone), Ernest Ranglin (guitar), Orville Hammond (piano), Wayne Batchelor (string bass), Desmond Jones (drums), Cecil Sonny Bradshaw (trumpet & piano), Larry McDonald (conga), and Douglas Ewart (reeds & percussion)
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Conversation at 6:00 pm
Concert at 7:30pm
Harlem Stage @ Aaron Davis Hall
150 Convent Ave @ 135th Street, NYC
Admission: $15
For tickets please call 212-281-9240 or visit www.harlemstage.org
Black Music, Ownership, and Value
The Spring 2009 Colloquium Series, Department of Music, and
The Center for Jazz Studies
The Center for Jazz Studies
are pleased to present
Black Music, Ownership, and Value
Ronald Radano, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Respondent: Harald Kisiedu
Friday, January 30, 2009
4PM, 622 Dodge Hall
Columbia University
Columbia University Jazz Composers Collective Premiere New Works
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program at Columbia University and the Music Department is pleased to announce the debut concert of the CU Jazz Composers Collective on Friday February 27 at 8:00pm in Miller Theatre. Conducted by Professor Chris Washburne, the Collective is composed of current graduate and undergraduate Columbia University students as well as alumni and faculty and the concert will premiere new jazz works. Washburne envisions the event as a platform for emerging student composers, as well as a unique reunion opportunity for renowned jazz musicians who have passed through Columbia's gates over the years integrating the past, present, and future of jazz at Columbia in one big evening.
CU Jazz Ensembles in Concert
This concert is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the CU Department of Music and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program under the Direction of Prof. Chris Washburne.
Professor George Lewis in the Columbia Spectator!
Check out an interview with Professor George Lewis, the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music in the Columbia Spectator: here.
CU Music Department End of Fall Semester General Meeting and Holiday Party
Directly following the general meeting, join colleagues for lunch and holiday festivities in room 620 Dodge. Everyone involved with the Music Department is welcome to attend:
Students (graduate and undergraduate), Students currently taking classes in the Department, Administrative staff (Music, Music Library), Faculty, Music Associates, Music Performance Program participants. See you there!
Concert featuring students of the Jazz Improvisation Course taught by Ben Waltzer
Featuring Pradeep Ratnayake (Sitar) with
Ben Waltzer (Piano),
Jacob Friedman (Piano),
Daniel Schley (cello),
Doug Berns (Bass Guitar),
Alexander Cohen (Drums),
Alexander Lewis (Violin).
Free and open to the public.
Columbia University Jazz Vocal Ensembles End of Semester Concert
Columbia University Jazz Vocal Ensembles End of Semester Concert
Directed by Christine Correa Sunday
December 7, 2008 4:00 PM
Italian Academy Teatro
1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116th & 118th
Free and open to the public
Concerts are sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Prof. Chris Washburne, the Music Department, and the Center for Ethnomusicology.
