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Sponsored by the Fund for Young Musicians of the
Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA)
in conjunction with its 32nd annual Festival (Sept. 11-13, 2009)
If you're age 13 through adult and have a burning desire to play jazz, take this fantastic opportunity to learn from the best! Check out our Jazz Camp faculty (all world-class jazz musicians and revered music teachers), our jam-packed curriculum, and your chance to see masters at work. Send us your Jazz Camp application by June 22, and tune up for a unique week of studying and playing with your peers, the next generation of jazz musicians...
Accommodations for jazz camp students now available at East Stroudsburg University!
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Faculty
- Phil Woods - Director
- Rick Chamberlain - Director
- Jim Daniels - Education Coordinator
- Evan Gregor - Ensemble Coordinator
- Kent Heckman - Red Rock Recording
- Spencer Reed
- Caris Visentin
- Eric Doney
- Vicki Doney
- Bobby Avey, Piano
- Matt Vashlishin, Saxophone
- Jay Rattman, Saxophone
- Jesse Green, Piano
- The COTA Festival Orchestra
Phil Woods, NEA Jazz Master (Composer) and multi-Grammy-Award-winning saxophonist
- Dave Liebman
- Bill Goodwin
- Bob Dorough
- Bob Leive
- and more!
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Campus:
Delaware Water Gap, PA Historic Sites
- Castle Inn (site of the COTA Festival)
- Presbyterian Church of the Mountain
- Deer Head Inn
Curriculum: (level specific)
- Improvisational training
- Small-ensemble playing
- Big Band Workshops
- Theory of improvisation and arranging for a small group
- Ear training
- Listening workshops
- Recording workshop and session
- Brown-bag lunch concerts with faculty and guests
- Classes with COTA Jazz Masters
- All-ensemble performances at the Gap's Community Concert Series, Aug. 2 (Church of the Mountain Gazebo)
- Field trip to explore the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection at the Kemp Library of East Stroudsburg University
Housing:
- Housing is available at East Stroudsburg University for CampJazz students. The cost for room and board (breakfast and dinner included) is $395.00.
- We have the third floor of the university apartments. 4 apartments - 2 male, 2 female - 3 bedrooms each apartment double occupancy. There will be a responsible chaperone for the floor. We will match age groups.
- Since the other floors will be students of David Liebman's saxophone Master class - there will be plenty of music floating through the building that week.
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2007 & 2008 COTA CampJazz
Student Sage DiPalma
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Sage DiPalma, a 2009 graduate of the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts and 2007 & 2008 COTA CampJazz student, was as surprised as anyone when her participation in a choir working with internationally-renown contemporary composer/conductor, Eric Whitacre, led to a solo debut at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Ms. DiPalma, along with other members of LVPA’s Touring Choir, took part in the Distinguished Concerts International New York’s presentation of Eric Whitacre, conducting his own choral music at Avery Fisher Hall. Whitacre, a Juilliard graduate and 2007 Grammy nominee, is one of the most popular and performed composers of his generation.
Ms. DiPalma has studied vocal technique and performance, with a concentration in Italian Opera Repertoire, under the tutelage of international opera singer and Julliard graduate, Pauline Domanski, of Bucks County, PA.
Says Ms. DiPalma, “Eric Whitacre has been my favorite composer since I was introduced to his music at LVPA three years ago,” Waiting outside the Lincoln Center after the concert, she added, “He has inspired me to begin composing music, and singing a solo in his composition as he conducted us tonight, was a dream come true.” The entire Touring Choir was taken to a post-concert VIP-only dinner party at New York’s famous Tavern-on-the-Green in Central Park.
The Touring Choir of LVPA is directed by Mr. David McBeth, who was present for the concert. “She nailed that solo,” he boasted proudly of Ms. DiPalma’s performance. |
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PHIL WOODS' THE CHILDREN'S SUITE RELEASED ON JAZZED MEDIA
