Next Generation Jazz Festival
2013 Results!
Congratulations to our Top Groups!
INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS
FOR THE 2013 NEXT GENERATION
JAZZ FESTIVAL
2013 ADJUDICATORS, CLINICIANS,
AND SPECIAL GUESTS
2013 FINALISTS
2013 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULES
JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH & INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY
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Every spring, Monterey Jazz Festival invites the top student musicians from across the country and around the world to participate in the Next Generation Jazz Festival.
In 2013, the 9th Next Generation Jazz Festival will take place April 5 - 7.
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 be invited to perform at the 56th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 20 - 22, 2013.
In total, 10 groups from the Next Generation Jazz Festival will perform at the 2013 Monterey Jazz Festival, with the top high school big band kicking off the Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage program on Sunday, September 22, 2013. 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 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 22, 2013) Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage program.
Next Generation Jazz Festival finalists are selected through recorded auditions by leading jazz educators, 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 bands, six middle school big bands and six Open Division Combos for college and conglomerate high school ensembles.
The Next Generation Jazz Festival will also feature special invited groups. In 2012, over sixty groups from across the United States attended the Next Generation Jazz Festival. 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 56th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 22, 2013 on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the Arena.
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 Hotel, the Red Snapper Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf, and the Museum of Monterey.
In the past, Next Generation Jazz Festival adjudicators have included Ambrose Akinmusire, Peck Allmond, Bob Athayde, Jennifer Barnes, David Beatty, Shelly Berg, Dave Carpenter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gilbert Castellanos, Corey Christiansen, Paul Contos, Sal Cracchiolo, Ray Drummond, George Duke, Rosana Eckert, Peter Erskine, Dave Eshelman, Matt Falker, Mary Fettig, Lynne Fiddmont, Joel Frahm, Nnenna Freelon, Mike Galisatus, Jeff Hamilton, Billy Harper, Matt Harris, Antonio Hart, Sherman Irby, Jeff Jarvis, Erik Jekabson, Sean Jones, Aaron Lington, Dave Loeb, Kerry Marsh, Andy Martin, Ron McCarley, Alan Pasqua, Steve Roach, Lauren Sevian, Kendrick Scott, George Stone, Dr. Lawrence Sutherland, Wayne Wallace, Michele Weir, Ron Westray, Dann Zinn, and many more.
In 2013, the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Artist-In-Residence is saxophonist Joe Lovano.
Due to a scheduling conflict, Joe Lovano will not be a participant at the 2013 Next Generation Jazz Festival Presented by Monterey Jazz Festival. Joe will be a performer at the 56th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 20-22; act as a clinician at Monterey Jazz Festival Summer Jazz Camp, June 10-21; and be a guest soloist with the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra during the 56th Monterey Jazz Festival, on September 22, 2013.
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history,” GRAMMY® Award-winning saxophone giant Joe Lovano has distinguished himself for over three decades as a prescient and path finding force in the arena of creative music. The secret to Lovano’s success is his fearless ability to push the conceptual and thematic choices he has made in his quest to find new modes of artistic expression within the jazz idiom.
You can see hundreds of pictures from past Next Generation Jazz Festivals by going to the Monterey Jazz Festival's Facebook page.
