12th Annual Clark Terry / Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival - featuring Joe Eckert, alto saxophone
The 12th Annual Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival will be held at our new River Campus (near the campus of Southeast Missouri State University) on Friday and Saturday, February 12-13, 2010. For our 12th annual festival we'll be bringing in Joe Eckert who is the sax professor at Texas Christian University.
We are currently accepting entries for limited timeslots which are available for high school and junior high/middle school jazz bands or combos for performance and clinic in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on the River Campus. The festival format (non-contest) will reward all groups by providing taped and written comments by expert adjudicators. In addition, a clinic will be provided for each ensemble following its performance, trophies will be awarded (new this year!) and individual citations will be presented for outstanding musicians within each ensemble. Each band will be adjudicated and rated as either Superior, Excellent, Good or Fair by experts in the jazz big band field. For all participants, our Jazz Ensemble will perform for all in a mini-concert on Friday at noon and perform in a gala concert featuring the fabulous Joe Eckert on Friday evening. All bands who stay to hear at least three other ensembles will receive free tickets to this event!
Prior to joining the TCU faculty, Joseph Eckert served as Associate Professor of Saxophone and Director of the Jazz program at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. where he joined the faculty fulltime after retiring from a 20-year career as lead alto saxophonist/woodwind specialist and music director for the United States Air Force "Airmen of Note" in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the Airmen of Note, he was Professor of Saxophone and Director of Jazz Studies at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia (1981-84), where his ensembles were awarded for their excellence and he received the “Outstanding Teacher Award” for 1982-83. While with the “Note” he toured extensively across the North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has performed with some of the great names in jazz to include Louie Bellson, The Brecker Brothers, Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine, Jimmy Heath, J. J. Johnson, Cleo Laine, Mike Mainieri, Carmen McRae, Clark Terry, Kenny Werner, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Williams and many others. Some of his free-lance activities have included performances with the Dallas Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra and tours with Liza Minelli and Nelson Riddle. Comfortable in both jazz and classical idioms, he is the only member of the faculty at Shenandoah to have been a guest soloist with the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and Brass Quintet. He has served as an adjudicator and clinician at music festivals, high schools and colleges nationally and internationally. Mr. Eckert is currently a Yamaha performing artist/clinician.
The registration fee for this festival will be $160 for your first band and $110 for each band thereafter. Bands will be scheduled at 35 minute intervals which will include set-up time, performance time, clinic time and tear-down time. Jazz combos also are invited to perform. Adjudicator’s comment sheets and tapes, OMA certificates, Trophies, and CD recording will be awarded. To encourage more groups to listen, all bands who stay for at least three ensembles will receive comp tickets to the Friday evening gala concert featuring the great Joe Eckert. Please complete the application form and return as soon as you can. I hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be a most memorable weekend of JAZZ!
NOTE: This event will take place at new facilities at our River Campus, not at Brandt Hall on the main campus.
Download the registration form. (Adobe PDF format.)
Single Reed Day
Southeast Missouri Single Reed Day is a one-day festival at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau that features clarinet and saxophone master classes, performances, clinics and more. Single Reed Day events are open to students, teachers, amateurs, professionals, and all those interested in the clarinet and/or saxophone. Admission is free to all Southeast Missouri Single Reed Day events.
High school seniors and potential transfer students may audition for a music scholarship during Southeast Missouri Single Reed Day. For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Dean (email: palmtree1999@yahoo.com or call: 573/651-2535).
Southeast Missouri Single Reed Day 2009 is scheduled for Saturday, February 7, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.
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