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Michel Camilo, Joe Lovano, and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez to Conduct Master Classes; Berklee Faculty to Perform on the Festival
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BOSTON, MA (USA) April 1, 2004 — Berklee College of Music faculty are packing up their instruments and lessons and heading for Perugia, Italy, to teach an intensive jazz workshop, July 6 - 18, for young musicians. Berklee Summer School at Umbria Jazz Clinics, now in its 19th year, is unique throughout Europe, allowing students to study by day, and listen to their musical heroes playing the 31th annual Umbria Jazz Festival — and jam with their classmates — by night.
Berklee Summer School at Umbria Jazz Clinics is the only official Berklee Summer Clinic in all of Europe. Over the last 19 years the college's partnership with the Umbria Jazz Festival and Umbria government, the Province of Perugia, and city of Perugia, has provided an unprecedented jazz education opportunity for over 4,000 aspiring musicians from throughout Europe. Berklee's collaboration with Umbria Jazz is its oldest, continuing international project.
Pianist/composer Michel Camilo H'00; Berklee alumnus, saxophonist/composer Joe Lovano '72 H'98, and drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez will conduct clinics at the school. All three of these musical luminaries are regular participants in Berklee programs. For the past 10 years, Hernandez has taught at Berklee's annual World Percussion Festival. Camilo continues his work as one of Berklee's Herb Alpert Visiting Professors, and Joe Lovano teaches some of the college's finest, young talents in his capacity as Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance.
Past Umbria Jazz performers who have visited the Summer School to give clinics include Bobby McFerrin, Elvin Jones, Pat Martino, Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin, Joe Lovano, and Wynton Marsalis, to name a few. Other established performers are expected to join the students at the school, located on the old city wall, in the Piazza del Drago.
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Berklee Summer School takes place throughout the Umbria Jazz Festival, giving participants an important homework assignment each night: hearing some of the most influential performers in jazz. At the end of this year's program, a total of up to $60,000 - $80,000 in Berklee scholarships (48,000 - 64,000 Euro) will be awarded to 10-15 outstanding student musicians. Since the beginning of the program, approximately $1 million worth of scholarships have been awarded. Many of these recipients have excelled at Berklee, and gone on to prominent careers in the music industry.
The entire faculty will be performing on the festival for six consecutive nights, Saturday, July 10 through Thursday, July 15 taking turns as part of the Donna McElroy/Larry Monroe Octet.
From Gary Burton, Berklee Executive Vice President and five-time Grammy Award winner, these words: "Berklee College of Music is proud to have been presenting jazz education at Umbria for the past 19 years, and we look forward to continuing this very important collaboration between our college and the festival. With the support of the festival and regional and city governments, the opportunity to study jazz with world-class instructors from Berklee and hear jazz by world-class performers at Umbria Jazz is available to hundreds of talented students who come from all over Europe."
Berklee Summer School in Umbria closely resembles the experience of studying at Berklee's Boston campus. Eleven of the college's professors, with help from local musician/interpreters, teach classes in music theory, ear training, and improvisation; direct student ensembles; and give private vocal and instrument instruction.
Summer School faculty are Larry Monroe (conducting special lectures); Greg Badolato (tenor sax); Scott deOgburn (trumpet); Jeff Galindo (trombone); Tony Germain (piano); Jim Kelly (guitar); Donna McElroy (voice); Dennis Montgomery III (voice, piano, gospel choir); Ron Savage (drums); Oscar Stagnaro (bass); and Mark White (guitar).
The faculty will be assisted by Marcello Allulli (tenor sax); Eleonora Bianchini (voice, piano, gospel choir); David Boato (trumpet); Nicola Cordisco (guitar); Maddalena Deodato (woodwinds); Cinzia Gizzi (piano); Stefania Rava (voice); Luigi Tessarollo (guitar); Marco Volpe (drums); and Claudio Zanghieri (bass). Allulli, Boato, Gizzi, Rava, Volpe, and Zanghieri are Berklee alumni; Bianchini is a current student; and Bianchini, Boato, Rava, and Zanghieri are past recipients of Berklee scholarships through their participation as students at the Umbria Jazz Clinics.
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The intensive, 24/7 atmosphere of Summer School demonstrates how Berklee students come to develop the technique, discipline, and musical "feel," that has put some among the most prominent musicians in the world. The days are consumed with learning, the evenings with the concerts of the festival, followed by jam sessions for the students and faculty that run far into the night.
Summer School is course-directed by Berklee Executive Vice President Gary Burton, Berklee Associate Vice President for International Programs Larry Monroe, Director of Umbria Jazz Clinics Giovanni Tommaso, and Director of Organization Sauro Peducci, with support from Umbria Jazz founder Carlo Pagnotta.
It was Pagnotta who initially asked for Berklee's support to co-develop a summer jazz clinic, in 1985. After the early sessions, word spread of Berklee's Monroe, his professors, and their new type of jazz education. Soon, scores of young musicians were bringing their instruments to Umbria Jazz and spending their days learning to do what their heroes do on the festival stages each night.
Close to 250 students are expected at Summer School this year. Classes run from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. each day, with an afternoon break. The festivities will end with two days of concerts and a graduation ceremony on Sunday, July 18 at which scholarships to Berklee in Boston will be awarded. For further information on Summer School, visit Berklee's Web site at www.berklee.edu, or the Umbria Jazz site, www.umbriajazz.com.
Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For over half a century, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. With over a dozen performance and nonperformance majors, a diverse and talented student body representing over 70 countries, and a music industry "who's who" of alumni, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today — and tomorrow.
For editorial information or digital photos, the media may contact:
Allen Bush
Office of Public Information
Berklee College of Music
617-747-2658 (number not for publication)
abush@berklee.edu
In Perugia, July 8 - 18
at La Rosetta Hotel 075-57-20841
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