UNC Asheville to offer summer jazz and contemporary music intensive camp for high school, college and continuing musicians

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UNC Asheville will offer a new summer jazz and contemporary music intensive camp June 26-July 1 for musicians ranging from high school level through adult. Summer music intensive students will enjoy a week of study designed by UNC Asheville’s music faculty to accelerate all aspects of musical development.
Students will participate in a variety of ensembles ranging from swing and bop to rock, electronic, experimental, and the nexus of avant-garde jazz and classical music. Classes will include instrumental master classes, sessions on section-leading and how to run a jam session, as well as rhythm section clinics. Students will learn music memorization techniques, improvisation, electronics (for winds as well as guitar), jazz theory and composition, jazz and popular music history, and contemporary composition.
The summer music intensive will take its cue from UNC Asheville’s music and music technology programs, which include directed instruction in studio music and jazz with cross-training in ecomusic, ethnomusicology, roots and popular music, experimental music and visuals, electronic music, and emerging hybrids and styles of live and recorded music.

Camp instructors will include these members of UNC Asheville’s music faculty:

Steve Alford, camp director, reeds; leader/composer for Rational Discourse, founding member of The E.Normus Trio

Jacob Rodriguez, saxophone; principal member of Michael Bublé’s multiple Grammy-winning orchestra

Matthew Richmond, vibes, percussion, composition; performs as a member of the Like Mind Trio and Asheville Symphony Orchestra

Tim Doyle, guitar; creator/director of the Asheville Guitar Club at the Music Academy Asheville

Zack Page, bass; freelance musician, has performed/recorded with Billy Higgins, Delfeayo Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut, Marvin Stamm, Eddie Daniels and Babik Reinhardt

Justin Ray, trumpet; performer, composer and arranger for Michael Bublé’s multiple Grammy-winning orchestra

Richard Shulman, piano; composer and performer, has played at venues in the U.S. and Europe including the Kool Jazz Festival, and has recorded 25 albums on his RichHeart Music label

Lyndsay Pruett, strings; comfortable in many genres, fiddler for the Jon Stickley Trio, credits include tours with Futureman and the Black Mozart Ensemble

Justin Watt, drums; performs with the Like Mind, Asheville Art and Keith Davis trios and the Greenville Jazz Collective; curated the Asheville Original Music Series

Fletcher Peacock, low brass; director of instrumental studies at UNC Asheville, has performed at SliderAsia in Hong Kong and recorded with bass trombonist James Markey.

Additional area musicians will join the camp faculty, including:

Rockell Scott, vocals; has performed with the U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America, and in Asheville at the Grove Park Inn and Isis Restaurant and Music Hall

Rick Simerly, trombone; associate professor of music at Milligan College, is also a veteran faculty member of Jamey Aebersold’s summer workshops.

Tuition is $525 including on-campus housing and meals. Students who will not need on-campus housing can take advantage of the non-resident option at a cost of $295, which includes ten meals. Private instruction sessions with camp faculty will also be available for camp participants at a cost of $20 per half-hour, reserved and paid at registration to facilitate scheduling.
Online registration is now open and a deposit of $100 is required to reserve a place in the summer music intensive camp. The balance of tuition must be received in full by June 3. For more information and registration, visit music.unca.edu/jazz-camp.