and took first place at Reno Jazz Festival in 2017. The Sacramento State School of Music vocal jazz program has been awarded over 20 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards, including a 2018 Downbeat ...

An annual festival where high school, community college and university vocal jazz ensembles perform for written comments from both WMU jazz faculty members and a guest artist. Ensembles from any state ...

The ensemble offers students opportunities to seriously study and perform a wide variety of choral repertoire including virtuoso choral music from the western tradition, vocal jazz and music from ...

Thompson Jazz Studies is pleased to announce four graduate teaching assistantships available for fall 2025. For more info, please contact Professor of Jazz Studies John Gunther, ...

Students will take the music to practice for the individual audition. What should vocalists prepare for the audition? Vocalists should prepare a solo of their choice for the solo audition. Vocal ...

Others are collaborative artists, teachers and music directors. We have alumni playing and directing on Broadway, working as opera or vocal coaches, jazz and studio musicians, composers, artist ...

Following her winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, she is currently recording her debut recording, which will feature Samara backed by the Pasquale Grasso Trio. Growing ...

The Concert Jazz Ensemble was recognized in DownBeat’s 2014 Student Music Awards as one of the nation’s outstanding big bands and—in 2015—was invited to perform at the “Next Generation Festival” in ...