Summer Jazz Camp is for students who want more. More music, more sectionals, more ensembles, more latin jazz, more fun!
Summer Jazz Camp is a two-week learning lab for talented and committed middle and high school music students with backgrounds that range from intermediate to the pre-professional level. Students learn from professional musicians/educators and collaborate with young people just like themselves who are from the Greater Bay Area and beyond.
Students engage in two weeks of daylong immersion into all aspects of Jazz. Included in the program of study is one-on-one training on individual instruments, music theory, ear training, rhythm classes, and various levels and styles of improvisation. Each student will be placed into a small ensemble and a big band, and select advanced level students will have an opportunity to participate in the Latin Jazz Big Band or the Summer Jazz Camp ‘A’ band which will focus on playing the repertoire of historically important Jazz composers such as Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, John Clayton, Thad Jones and more. On Friday, June 22, there will be an outdoor faculty concert at San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose from 7-9pm where families can attend and Summer Jazz Camp students can participate.
Camp runs from 8:30am till 4pm, Monday through Friday for two weeks with a free celebratory concert featuring the students on the final Friday night where family and friends are encouraged to attend. The final concert will run from 6pm – 9:30pm on June 29.
Complete and return the form to San Jose Jazz Summer Jazz Camp,
The faculty is comprised of nationally and internationally renowned musicians who are passionate, talented Jazz educators, including Shawn Costantino, saxophone; Wally Schnalle, drums; John Worley, trumpet, flugelhorn; Wayne Wallace, trombone, piano, Latin Jazz; Rick Vandivier, guitar; Hristo Vitchev, guitar; Pascal Le Boeuf, piano/keyboard; Dan Robbins, acoustic bass, and four, five, six, and seven-string electric bass; David Flores, Latin percussion, drums; and Jimmy Biala, Latin percussion, drums. In addition, there are four talented, dedicated, college musicians that will be teaching, including Oscar Pangilinan (San Jose State University), sax; Yuma Sung (Manhattan School Of Music, New York University), piano, keyboard, composition; Faris Jarrah (San Jose State University), trombone; and Jordan Brian (Stanford University), drums.
Summer Jazz Camp is being held at Mexican Heritage Plaza located at 1700 Alum Rock Avenue, San José, CA 95116. The 55,000 square foot enclosed set of buildings opened in 1999 and includes a state-of-the-art theater, classrooms, gallery space, and lush thematic gardens. Owned by the City of San Jose, the facility is home to the School of Arts & Culture atMHP which serves as a communal gathering place and promotes a sense of belonging to children through culture and the arts. Summer Jazz Camp will be the only tenant during the day from June 18-29. The facility is centrally located near downtown San Jose with easy freeway access.
Important Camp Dates
“Early Bird” Tuition Deadline: Tue, May 1, 2012
Summer Jazz Camp: Mon–Fri, Jun 18–29, 2012, 2012; 8:30am–4pm
Final Day – Public Concerts & Celebration: Fri, Jun 29, 2012
2012 Tuition
$650 San Jose Jazz Members ("Early Bird”) $700 San Jose Jazz Members (After May 1) $750 Non-members $600 Multi Child Discount*
*Multi Child Discount also available after first child pays full tuition
2011 Summer Jazz Camp Evaluations
Campers
100% stated that they learned to be better musicians at camp
100% stated that they developed better performance techniques at camp
97% reported that they would recommend this camp to friends
Teachers
100% stated that they liked teaching at camp
100% stated that the right students attended camp
100% stated that they look forward to returning to camp in 2012
Comments From 2011 Teachers
“During my musicianship class, I had a student literally jump out of her seat,
excited with what she had just learned.”
“(A student) who has been coming to camp for five years
finally was playing like crazy and loving it!”
“In a morning class I showed my students a scale with all harmonics,
later one of them told me, ‘I’m obsessed with it, I’ve been playing it all day!’
He was really inspired … that’s the point!”
There's an opportunity for Jazz supporters to contribute to the Jazz Camp Scholarship Fund. Last year of 110 students at Camp, 40 received scholarship support. Invest in the future of Jazz—contact us at
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or 408-288-7557, x2335. All contributions to the Scholarship Fund are fully tax-deductible.
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