The
2011 Next Generation Jazz Festival will take
place April 1 - 3, 2011.
Application material will be available
in fall 2010.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR
FINALISTS!
PRESS RELEASE:
MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2010 NEXT
GENERATION JAZZ FESTIVAL RESULTS
READ THE 2010 NEXT GENERATION
PRESS RELEASE
2010
NEXT GENERATION JAZZ FESTIVAL JUDGES AND
ADJUDICATORS
 2010
NEXT GENERATION JAZZ FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OF
EVENTS
General Information
About the Next Generation Jazz Festival
Every Spring, the Monterey Jazz Festival invites
the top student musicians from across the country
and around the world to participate in the Next
Generation Jazz Festival.
The three-day event includes performances by
middle school through college level ensembles as
well as competitions, with awards going to the
top groups for High School, Conglomerate, and College
Big Band Divisions; for High School and College
Vocal Ensembles; for High School Combos; and for
our newest component, the Open Combo Division for
high school conglomerate and college level ensembles.
The event also includes Next Generation Jazz Festival's
annual Composition Competition, open to high school
composers or younger. The top three high school
big bands, top high school combo, top conglomerate
big band, top college-level big band and vocal
ensemble, top two high school vocal ensembles,
and top Open Division combo will win cash awards
and be invited to perform at the 53rd Annual Monterey
Jazz Festival presented by Verizon, September 17
- 19, 2010. In total, 10 groups from the Next Generation
Festival will perform at 2010 MJF, with the top
high school big band kicking off the Arena/Lyons
Stage program on Sunday, September 19, 2010. Other
selected groups will perform in the Night Club,
the Garden Stage, and the Coffee House Gallery
on the Grounds.
Auditions will also be held for chair positions
in the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next
Generation Jazz Orchestra, which embarks
on a summer tour and is a featured ensemble on
the Festival's Sunday afternoon (September 19,
2010) Arena/Lyons Stage program. For 2010 MJF,
Dianne Reeves, MJF’s
Artist-In-Residence for 2010, will perform as a
guest vocalist with the NGJO.
Visit our College Fair and Instrument Showcase!
You can talk to representatives from colleges
and organizations offering jazz education at our
College Fair, and sample instruments galore in our
Instrument Showcase. They'll both be located
in the Conference Center on Saturday and Sunday,
April 10 and 11.
College Fair Participants
The JazzSchool
Roosevelt University
Stanford Jazz Workshop
Texas Southern University
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University Of the Pacific
Instrument Showcase Participants
Antigua Winds
Best Buy Instruments
Galien-Krueger
Steve Gray Instruments
General
Information About the Application Process
Next Generation Jazz Festival finalists
are selected through recorded auditions reviewed
and ranked by faculty from the Berklee College
of Music, and will include twelve big bands, six
combos, and eight vocal ensembles in
the High School Division. Six
college-level big bands and six
college vocal ensembles will also be selected,
in addition to six conglomerate and six
middle school big bands.
New for
2010 is the Open
Combo Division for college and
conglomerate high school ensembles.
Six finalist combos will be selected to participate
in this newest division.
The Next Generation Jazz Festival will also feature
special invited groups. In 2009, over fifty groups
from across the United States attended the Next
Generation Festival, including groups from Japan
and the United Kingdom.
In addition, the Big Band Composition Competition is
open to high school student composers. Judged by
college faculty from leading music schools across
the country, the winning composer will receive
the Gerald Wilson Award and a cash prize, with
the winning composition to be performed by the
Next Generation Jazz Orchestra at the 53rd Annual
Monterey Jazz Festival presented by Verizon, September
19, 2010 on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the Arena
before a crowd of 6,500 fans.
All Next Generation Jazz Festival events and
activities—from
Friday night's Kick-Off Concert through Saturday
and Sunday's Next Generation Jazz Festival Jazz
Competition—are
open to the public, free of charge. The Festival
will also conduct clinics, workshops, jam sessions,
and auditions in the heart of historic Monterey,
with music to be performed at the Monterey Conference
Center, the host Portola Plaza Hotel, Fisherman’s
Wharf, Cannery Row, and a downtown jazz club.
| The Monterey Jazz Festival is
also pleased to announce that the Artist-In-Residence
for 2010 MJF will be four-time
Grammy Award-winning vocalist, Dianne Reeves. |
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The following categories are now
closed for entry to the Next Generation Jazz Festival:
- High School Big Bands
- High School Combos
- High School Vocal Jazz Ensembles
- Conglomerate Big Bands
- Middle School Big Bands
- College Big Bands
- College Vocal Jazz Ensembles
- High School and College Open Combos
- Big Band Composition Competition
- Next Generation Jazz Orchestra
   
Our thanks to AT&T Foundation, DownBeat,
Jazz Cruises,
and Surdna Foundation
for
their support
 
For other giving options (credit
card by phone, gifts of stock, planned gifts),
please contact us at 831.373.3366 or e-mail jazzinfo@montereyjazzfestival.org. |
