Summer Program at Putney School

• Outstanding teachers and performers
• Small classes tailored to ability and goals
• Ensemble coaching
• Scholarship program based on need

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Winter/Spring Classes- Start February 1st!

The VJC will host a new semester of classes beginning February 1st. Along with its standard, 10 week-long ensemble program, the VJC is offering two new 5 week-long classes.

This semester the Jazz Center will offer something for everyone, including a jazz appreciation class offered by bassist, George Kaye. Kaye is eager to encourage a new breed of jazz listeners by deconstructing and reconstructing the music with the participants to show the thought process involved in creating jazz. He will illuminate the factors that define jazz, such as improvisation, swing and interaction by playing recordings and showing videos of the jazz masters in action. George is a huge fan of Miles Davis and often uses examples of Davis' various groups to reveal the magic that makes this music so enjoyable. Kaye's classes will be on Mondays from 5:30 to 7:00 and will begin on February 8th. He will offer two consecutive five-week sessions.

Another new VJC offering is a course in ear training designed especially for singers. Anna Patton who has offered vocal harmonizing workshops around the country will help singers to identify intervals and discover how they can be used to join voices and create beautiful harmonies. Her class will be on Tuesdays beginning April 27th at 7:30. Anna will also continue her successful Swing Harmony Ensemble - a small, acapella chorus that revels in singing harmonized songs of the swing era as well as original tunes modeled after the Swing style.

Jazz Center instructors continue to work with our public schools. This semester Julian Gerstin is teaching an Afro-Caribbean Ensemble to Steve Rice's percussionists at BUHS and Eugene Uman is working with Tom Nasiatka's Middle School Jazz Ensemble in a hands-on jazz improvisation class.

TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please call 802-254-9088 or email Eugene

• Jazz curriculum for elementary through high school students
• Instruction on jazz appreciation and history
• Focus on the theory and practice of the improvisational process
• Coaching student ensembles

Faculty

• World renowned Faculty
• Performing artists