| Smith Dobson Youth Jazz Festival
The 16th annual Smith Dobson Youth Jazz Festival is to take place in February 2009.
What is the Smith Dobson
Youth Festival?
It is a 2-day competition for Middle and
High School musicians. 500 performers from
those local schools have the opportunity
to meet nationally known adjudicators and
to obtain music scholarship awards. During
the Youth Festival, San Jose Jazz also gratefully
carries on the tradition of presenting “The
Educator of the Year”.
“Our goal is
to provide a nurturing educational environment
that provides students with the opportunity
to learn from a team of outstanding jazz
educators.”
More info on the
Festival?
Contact Geoff Roach
Executive Director
(408) 288 -7557 ext. 2332
geoffr@sanjosejazz.org
San Jose Jazz would like to thank everyone who was able to participate in the 2008 Smith Dobson Youth Jazz Festival.
The musician-participant’s love for music shown bright and was a pleasure to see.
The winners for each of the categories are as follows:
- Santa Clara University , Jazz Combo (College)
- Valley Christian High School , Jazz Combo (High School)
- Buchser Middle School , Jazz Choir (Middle School and below)
We are happy to announce the overall winner of the festival as the Jazz Combo from Valley Christian. This group will receive some recording time for a CD as their grand prize. These three winning groups will all be granted an opportunity to play in the Jazz Festival in August (8/8 – 8/10/2008) at the “Future of Jazz” stage. Gunn High School ’s Jazz Combo is also included in this invitation due to their high scores and enjoyable performance.
We will be continuing with a combo format for next year’s festival. However the name will be changing to “ Battle of the Bands”. Keep up the great work and look forward to seeing you again this next year, if not sooner. |
