The Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra is excited to announce our 2013 Young Artist Concerto Competition! Applications are now available for the Junior and Senior Divisions for musicians ages 8-22. We would love to have your students participate in this year’s competition!

As Boulder’s own professional orchestra, the Boulder Phil has sponsored its Young Artist Concerto Competition annually since 1959. One winner from each division will be chosen to perform with the Boulder Philharmonic. All winners will receive a $100 gift certificate to a Boulder Phil subscription concert at Macky Auditorium.

“What Can I Do?” multimedia environmental concerts This is a 60-75 minute educational keynote presentation featuring the photography of John Fielder, Karl Snyder and Laurie Dameron, video, information and live music. Some may think I am preaching to the choir on environmental issues in Colorado but consider that in 2010 the city of San Francisco boasted a diversion rate of 85%. (Diversion rate is how much material is diverted from the land fill by recycling, compost, reducing and reusing) The same year Boulder’s diversion rate was 35%! I think we can do better!

The Denver Musicians Association of which I am a member has graciously stepped up to help out. Their 501©3, nonprofit arm, “Our Musical Heritage” is “partnering” with me and making it possible to seek tax deductible donations that I need to raise money for a projector, screen, promotion and other business expenses.
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By Jan Sjostrom
Palm Beach Daily News Arts Editor
Posted: 6:48 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Palm Beach Symphony hopes to hire The Juilliard School students and recent graduates next year to perform concerts and conduct schools programs.

Three residencies, each lasting a week or two, are planned, said Michael Finn, the symphony’s executive director. Finn’s background includes 20 years as associate dean and director of performance activities at the prestigious performing arts conservatory in New York.

During their stays, the Juilliard musicians would work in public and private schools, play recitals and cabaret concerts at venues such as the Norton Museum of Art and The Breakers, and join the orchestra as soloists, Finn said. Two classical and one jazz ensemble are being discussed.

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In our last issue of The Denver Musician, we took an in-depth look into the operations of the JGS’s “Inside the Orchestra” programs through the eyes of its Executive Director. With this interview we’ll go directly to Tom Jensen, who created JSG’s programs and offers a wealth of experience and success with orchestra promotion.
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Director of Development & Events – Full Time

DYAO is excited to announce the opening of a full-time Director of Development & Events.
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Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts
Education Director
(25 hrs/wk)

The Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts (CMF & RMCMA) presents a sixweek summer music festival at Chautauqua in Boulder, and operates a year]round community music school in Lafayette providing music instruction on all instruments and voice to more than 500 students of all ages and abilities each week. (Visit www.comusic.org for more information). The Education Director is the principal architect of all festival and music school education programs. This position requires a strong background in music education, and knowledge of and commitment to the core principals of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, including excellence and access, which guide our music education programs.

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Littleton’s Centennial Academy of the Arts needs musical instruments. If you have one to donate, please contact
Hank Troy at the DMA office, 303-573-1717, or by email at hanktroydma@aol.com
The current needs are 8 flutes and/or clarinets; 5 saxophones (alto and tenor); 7 trumpets; and 7 baritones.

12.15.11 – The Youth Orchestras of the Rockies (YOR) are delighted to announce that we have been selected to participate in the Colorado Chamber Orchestra’s Wes Blomster Music Mentoring Fund Artist in Residence program!

The Denver Municipal Band
In association with
Our Musical Heritage
Presents A JAZZ WORKSHOP

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 – 11:00 A.M.
The Denver Musicians Association
1165 Delaware St.
ADMISSION FREE
Players of all levels are welcome

Trumpeter Shane Endsley and Saxophonist Ben Wendel, guest artists.
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Shepherd Valley Waldorf School, Niwot, CO. We are seeking two dynamic musicians for our strong music program.

Cello Teacher
Approximately two 45-minute classes/week for our 3rd Grade Sectionals Class.

Band Teacher
Approximately four 45-minute classes/week. Responsibilities include 5th through 8th Grade Band Class.

Pay starts at $31 per hour for both positions.

Duties and responsibilities: Conduct Elementary Strings, determine seating, select repertoire, mark bowings, coordinate with staff and volunteers, recruit students (this program is dependent on a minimum enrollment of 11 students).

Duties and responsibilities: Conduct Concert Orchestra, oversee Prelude Chamber Ensembles including coaching and hiring of coaches in consultation with Music Director, implement artistic direction as defined by Music Director, judge auditions, determine seating, select repertoire, mark bowings, coordinate with staff and volunteers.

Executive Director (Part Time-Averages 25 hours per week) Youth Orchestra of the Rockies seeks experienced professional to manage day-to-day operations of non-profit organization serving youth in northern Front Range area. more…

Particularly in small towns, there is often a conflict between amateur musicians and ensembles, like high school music programs and professional musicians. An individual might hire a local high school ensemble for much less than a professional musician. Because of the potential conflict between professional and amateur musicians that might diminish the number of paying gigs, music educators and professional musicians have collaborated to define the circumstances under which it is ethical for amateur musicians to accept private or public paid performances.
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“Attention shoppers! Can I get a price check on a cellist?”

The Whole Foods store in the Streets at Southglenn (University and Arapahoe) will be donating 5% of all sales this Wednesday August 11th to the Junior Symphony Guild’s “Inside the Orchestra” programs— benifiting the DMA musicians who make up the ensemble.

This is part of Whole Foods’ Community Giving Day— and is at the Southglenn store only. Student pianists who perform with the orchestra will be giving a recital throughout the day and Music Director Tom Jensen will be helping “bag groceries” in white tie and tails.

KUSA channel 9’s Kirk Montgomery will be there to film a piece for their 4P newscast.

This is a great way to help fund our local musicians while buying food that you need anyway!

So come out and support the JSG and your DMA musicians this Wednesday August 11!

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The idea is to create a pilot instrumental music program which could be used as a model for the entire country of Cambodia and perhaps even other Southeast Asian nations. There are currently no school band programs in the entire country of Cambodia, a country that just a couple of decades ago was devastated by what has been called “the killing fields”. Many of the students at the Logos School are orphans or “street” kids. I shared with Steven that I would try to get with the Denver Musicians Association to collect band instruments. The question became, how do we get the instruments to Phnom Penh. Read On

There is still time for you or your students to apply for the 2010 Rafael Mendez Brass Institute (featuring the SUMMIT BRASS!), held at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music this August 1-7, 2010. Registration closes on May 31st and positions are rapidly filling. Substantial scholarships are available for every instrument! More info: Click Here

The University of Denver, Lamont School of Music Summer Pre-College Academy is still accepting applications for the 2010 program, June 19 – July 3. Scholarships are available on several instruments. Click Here for more information.

Sunday, April 18th, 10-5 p.m., at Red & Jerry’s, Oxford & Santa Fe, [south] Denver/Englewood/Sheridan. ALL AGES, FREE, FREE parking! More than 40 booths, seminars, live artists outside on the CarToys/Aftershock Stage. For complete schedule of events: Colorado Music Business Organization

Like many musicians, I have found teaching to be the butter for the bread of performance. Truthfully, the balance between performing and teaching helps me survive as a working musician. I simply love sharing the music with public and private audiences, and equipping them to participate in the creative process.

Parlando School for the Arts is holding its first Composition Competition for student composers.

Jerald Lepinski (1931-2009) first came to Colorado in the 50s to conduct the Classical Choir at Rocky Ridge Music Center and stayed in the region for the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Denver Musicians Association since 1961.

A letter from Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, was sent to school and education community leaders highlighting the importance of arts education.

Renee Grant-Williams’ Vocal Master Clinic Denver will be held Saturday, August 15th at the Highland Recreation Center, 2880 Osceola Street (29th & Osceola), Denver Colorado. Grant-Williams is one of the most sought-after vocal coaches in music today and her clients include such well known artists as Miley Cyrus, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Christina Aquilera, Tim McGraw, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney, and Bob Weir (Grateful Dead). See Flyer for more info.

A fundraiser for Junior Symphony Guild Music Education
Programs will be held at Meridian Golf Club
Monday, June 15th-1:00 PM Shotgun start. Cocktail Buffet Party-5:30 PM
Receive $25 off your entry free if you register by May 1st!
Win a Solstice from Suss Pontiac with a hole-in-one on the 8th hole!
Reserve your spot in the tournament! (men’s, women’s and mixed team divisions). Click heading for more details.

Do people really know what it’s like to be a professional musician? Do musicians themselves even know what their peers think and do? A large-scale groundbreaking new study from a University of Pennsylvania researcher (and musician) is attempting to find out.

Guest artists to include young virtuoso JOEL FAN, praised for his recent recital album World Keys, which reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Classical Chart, the exciting NYAHO/GARCIA DUO, Piano Wellness Seminar founder, SHEILA PAIGE, and Chinese-born pianist, HSING-AY HSU.. Metro State Piano Faculty Tamara Goldstein, Justin Adams, Steven Aguiló- Arbues, Peter Friesen, James Myers, Collette St. Clair, Nan Shannon, Mila Startsev, and April Travers.

I-Park announces its ninth season hosting The Artists’ Enclave. Artists’ residencies, self-directed/project oriented, will be offered from May through November 2009, with possible off-season sessions in April and December. Most sessions are four weeks in duration. Residencies will be offered to visual (including digital) artists, music composers, environmental artists, landscape and garden designers, creative writers and architects. Work samples will be evaluated through a competitive, juried process.

Colorado Department of Education & Colorado Council on the Arts
A first-of-its-kind study by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and the Colorado Council on the Arts (CCA) reveals that public high schools offering more arts education have higher academic achievement, regardless of student ethnicity or socioeconomic status.

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to teach adult beginners in keyboard class, using Meloz Music Tablature. You’ll like it. Everyone can now learn to read music, because this approach succeeds with all ages.
Click here for more info: Meloz®
Contact Jerald Lepinski for an interview and demonstration, even if you are only curious.
(303) 526-7441
Jerald.Lepinski@gmail.com

After 10 weeks of sessions our youth ensemble is performing a free concert this Thursday, July 10 at 8 PM. They have named themselves “ Syntax Error” and they’re good! Please feel free to come out and see them play. We have plenty of room in our recital hall, so bring anyone who would enjoy hearing kids that can swing and groove!

Then next week we have one of our three adult jazz ensembles performing Wednesday, July 16 at 7:30 PM. They have an varied program of jazz standards, Latin tunes, and blues and would love to have you come out and support them in their first concert.

2008-2009 SEASON

Auditions will be held at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, CO
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Announces auditions for the 2008-2009 season. All String Players (violin, viola, cello, and double bass) between the ages of 13 and 29 are welcome to audition. Interested woodwind, horn and trumpet players may also audition for our programs that include winds.

If you have experience playing jazz, no matter what your age, the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts has opportunities for you to spice up your summer, and take your musicianship to a new level. Go to www.jazzarts.org or call 720-201-6885 for more information, and unleash your jazz potential!

Member and violinist of the Boston Musicians’ Association (AFM Local 9-535), Christine Vitale is asking for your participation in a research project on post-performance mood. She is currently a freelance musician and doctoral student of Counseling/Sport Psychology at Boston University and is conducting this research as part of her dissertation. Continue reading to access Survey.

The IAJE Board has voted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. While over 250 individuals contributed just over $12,000, this, along with the many other efforts and contributions of IAJE staff, Board members, and association partners, was simply not enough to address the accumulated debt of the organization or its urgent need for cash relief.

Concerts & Jazz Guitar Workshops.
April 12th, the legendary guitarist Gene Bertoncini, hailed as “The Segovia of Jazz”
April 19h, Mel Bay recording artist Corey Christiansen, Modern jazz master guitarist.

Obama supports allowing artists to deduct the fair market value of their work for charitable contributions. Obama supports the Artist-Museum Partnership Act, introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). The Act amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow artists to deduct the fair market value of their work, rather than just the costs of the materials, when they make charitable contributions. Click on title for the rest of this story.

Congratulations: Junior Symphony Guild Celebrates 50 Years! Don’t forget to come to the Bauer’s Celebrates 50 Years of JSG at the new Bauer’s Restaurant (the old Victory Grille, 1512 Curtis St, Denver) downtown this Sunday, from 4-7pm. Bauer’s is…
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We do need your help this year! As you know we are redoing the Phipps Tennis Pavilion at 3300 Belcaro Drive in Denver.

Please check out our website at: broadwaymusicschool.com *Acclaimed teacher and performer Masa Ito, guitar professor with DU Lamont School of Music, will be coaching classical guitar ensembles for both adults and young musicians. New sessions will begin on Monday evening,…
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The World’s Leading Brass Career Seminar
Hosted by Summit Brass and the University of Denver
July 6 – 12, 2008
Honoring the legendary trumpet virtuoso, Rafael Méndez (1906-1981), the Rafael Méndez Brass Institute is the world’s leading performance and career development seminar for brass musicians and educators age 18 and
older. All participants perform in brass ensembles and masterclasses, coached
by some of the foremost brass artists in the nation. Daily career seminars are designed to assist participants with auditioning techniques, ensemble organization and administration

A lively and transforming course of study for instrumentalists and/or vocalists, leading to certification as a Certified Music Practitioner.

Certified Music Practitioners provide live, therapeutic music at the bedside to ill or dying patients in many different types of healthcare facilites, creating a healing, nurturing environment.

Classes will being in the Denver Area January 26-27, 2008. For information and an application see the MHTP website: http://www.mhtp.org/; mhtp@mhtp.org

We need to give young (and not so young) aspiring musicians more opportunity for musical training; We need to give them more ensemble playing situations; and We need to ensure that there will be careers in music in the future due to having a population that appreciates music.

Broadway Music School is trying to make a difference. We are doing our part by creating opportunities for music students to have access to teachers, concerts, masterclasses, performing, and ensemble playing. Call us if you can add to what we’re doing.

Broadway Music School 303-777-0833
broadwaymusicschool@earthlink.net
broadwaymusicschool.com

Join the JSG and help us celebrate 50 years of bringing symphonic and classical music to children of the Front Range! The event is Wednesday, October 10, 2007 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. and will be hosted by HW Homes in their Cherry Creek North store, 199 Clayton Lane, Denver (corner of Clayton and 2nd Street). The evening will feature: Introduction to JSG programs and 50th Anniversary Year special events; Wine and cheese; Entertainment by several talented, young musicians; PLUS – HW Homes is offering a gift bag to all new members and a gift passport to all renewing members!