Young jazz pianists will once again vie for $2000 in scholarships sponsored by the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education and The Schubert Club. The Seventh Annual Jazz Piano Scholarship Competition, open to students in grades 9-12, rewards value amid students of America’s great native art form. Applications (including an audio recording) are due by 4:30 pm on April 15th . Up to 3 finalists will perform before a row of judges and live assembly at the Dakota Jazz Club on Sunday afternoon, 2pm, May 15th. In add-on to the scholarships, the finalists will have an chance to perform by programs sponsored by the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education (DFJE) or Schubert Club (such as on the theatre of the Dakota Jazz Club, on the DFJE Youth Stage of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, and/or a Schubert Club Court Room Series concert).
The Jazz Piano Competition was inaugurated in 2005 with the awarding of 3 $500 scholarships: The Marie Froelich Memorial Award, The Jane Matteson Memorial Award, and The David Paulus Memorial Award. In the sixth competition final spring, 3 finalists were any awarded $500 scholarships-Quentin Tschofen (Lighthouse Program, Spring Lake Park Schools), Kai Olstad (Northfield High School) and Chantil Dukart (Academy High School, Colorado Springs). Following their final performances at the Dakota Jazz Club, Quentin Tschofen was awarded the extra $500 Performance Prize.
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Last year’s finalists achieved in a showcase at the Artists Quarter (sponsored by the Twin Cities Jazz Society) and on the DFJE Youth Stage of the Twin Cities Jazz festival. Only Chantil was senior, and has changed on to jazz studies at the University of Miami. Other formerly grant winners have vanished on to the Brubeck Institute, Manhattan School of Music, Stanford University, Oberlin and more.
The Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education (DFJE) is a non-profit group dedicated to bringing jazz and preparation together. Originated in 1997 by Dakota Jazz Club co-owner Lowell Pickett and benefactor, the late Jane Matteson, DFJE provides jazz preparation and opening opportunities that urge on an understanding, high regard and eagerness for jazz amid young audiences and lush musicians. Clinics are supposing by a few of the world’s most appropriate musicians and give young bands and musicians the chance to perform with and pick up from the masters. In add-on to cosponsoring the jazz piano grant competition, the DJFE has sponsored the Youth Stage at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, jazz stay scholarships, tyro clinics, and the annual Dakota Combo, an all-star high college jazz garb destined by Adam Linz by the MacPhail Center for Music.
The Scholarship Competition
Young jazz pianists enrolled in a high college (grade 9-12) module or homogeneous as of May 15, 2011, are speedy to full the focus for this competition. Competitors contingency contention an audio CD containing 3 jazz tunes of their selecting to the Schubert Club Office by 4:30 pm on April 15th . A row of judges will blindly weigh the available performances and order competitors to choose up to 3 finalists, who will be told in late April. The finalists (each of whom will be awarded one of the $500 scholarships) will vie before a row of superstar judges and a live assembly at the Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant on Sunday, May 15, 2011 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm. (All field contingency be available to perform at the Dakota on May 15th.) Judges will supply their critiques to the assembly and finalists after any performer. The Performance Prize leader ($500) will be voiced at the finish of the competition.
Rules: Highlights
Literature . Three jazz songs; the choosen songs may be entire or prejudiced compositions, jazz standards, self-composed functions or improvised.
Performance . For the submitted sound recording, the 3 songs may be solo, accompanied or a blend of piece for one person and accompanied, at the competitor’s discretion, but at least one strain contingency be a solo. For Finals performances, the competitors contingency perform the same 3 songs that they submitted on their sound recording; at least one piece contingency achieved piece for one person and at least one piece contingency be played with the supposing garb (a drummer and bassist). It is strongly endorsed that performers choose pieces of resisting type and tone.
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