The 2011 Sacramento State Winter Jazz Festival, open to High School & Middle School/Jr. High Jazz Ensembles, Jazz Combos, and College Jazz Ensembles, is a non-competitive, educational festival in that no scoring or rankings of bands are made or implied. Instead, our selected clinicians are simply on hand to provide constructive commentary through written, taped and verbal feedback. The festival revolves completely around one main concept: it is important that our young musicians are taught how to play jazz while enjoying the learning process through every means available.
Those means include:
- Quality education and encouragement
- The creation of opportunities for listening and performance
- The presentation of clinics of meaning and merit
- Offering a positive, learning-based experience for young jazz ensembles.
Each group registration fee includes a 30 or 40-minute performance session with selected clinicians. Large Instrumental Jazz Ensembles will receive a 30-minute performance slot. Jazz Combos will receive a 40-minute performance slot. Following your performance, each ensemble will receive a 20-30 minute verbal feedback clinic with the adjudicators. All Ensembles will also receive digitally recorded feedback and written comments from the adjudicators as well as access to clinics and daytime performances. Directors and performing participants will receive a complimentary pass to the Festival. General admission is $10.
The Sacramento State Winter Jazz Festival will also include:
Performances by Sacramento State Jazz Ensembles.
Our guest adjudicators and members of the Sacramento State Jazz Studies faculty, all of whom are recognized leaders in their fields,
will present clinics on a variety of different topics.
Additional Festival Information:
The deadline for registration is November 1, 2011. To participate please fill out the downloadable application and return to:
Steve Roach
Department of Music
Sacramento State Jazz Festival
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6015
Application Fee:
$175.00 per Jazz Ensemble
$150.00 for a second Jazz Ensemble
$130.00 per Jazz Combo
Fees will not be refunded after November 1, 2011. There will be a 25% processing charge on all refunds.
Preliminary schedules with warm-up and performance times will be sent to directors by November 5, 2011.
The entire festival is held in Capistrano Hall on the campus of Sacramento State University.
General Admission to the Festival is $10.00. Parking is FREE and open to the public. For driving directions to Capistrano Hall, click here.
We will fill performance spots on a first come, first serve basis so please get your reservation form in early. For further festival information call the Sacramento State Jazz Studies Office at (916) 278-7987. Or email: roach@csus.edu
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Steve Roach, Director of Jazz Studies
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