MU/Rock Bridge Jazz Festival - February 4, 2012
It is our pleasure to announce the 1st Annual MU/Rock Bridge Jazz Festival. This is a great way for your large jazz band, jazz combo, or vocal jazz group to kick off the festival season!
Entry deadline is January 20, 2012.
MU Jazz Festival History and Objectives
During the winter 1987 term, the University of Missouri-Columbia Jazz Studies Program, in conjunction with the Zeta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the student chapter of the International Association for Jazz Education, began a new annual jazz festival on campus. The organizers sought to bring together the finest junior high and high school instrumentalists, highly qualified and respected jazz adjudicators, and top quality clinicians. The MU Jazz Festival is about education, with the following objectives:
1) To provide a major jazz education event for junior high, high school, and college students, as well as teachers
2) To bring together outstanding jazz artists, educators, and student musicians in planned and shared educational and musical experiences that promote the students’ musical growth
3) To expose students of music to performances by America’s great improvisational artists
4) To give students and the general public alike a deeper understanding and appreciation of America’s own music – Jazz
Though the mission remains the same, the festival has been tweaked to make for a deeper educational experience. The MU/Rock Bridge Jazz Festival, now co-hosted by Rock Bridge High School, will now offer workshops and clinics with renowned jazz educators from throughout the region in a ratings-only format, with an option to participate in sight-reading. Although the format is ratings-only, the band with the top score will be invited to present a Command Performance on the festival concert. Additionally, the top soloists will be invited to perform with the MU Concert Jazz Band. Bands from all over the state of Missouri will participate in this unique festival! Click on the links above for more information, or to download an application form.
Past Sweepstakes Winners
2008 - Waynesville Middle School
2007 - St. Charles West High School
2006 – Rock Bridge High School
2005 – Shawnee Mission East High School
2004 – Ft. Zumwalt North High School
2003 – St. Charles West High School
2002 – St. Charles West High School
2001 – St. Charles West High School
2000 – St. Charles West High School
1999 – Grandview Middle School
1998 – Parkway West High School
1997 – West Junior High School
1996 – Park Hill High School
1995 – Park Hill High School
1994 – Lafayette High School
1993 – Grandview High School
1992 – Parkway West High School
1991 – Park Hill High School
1990 – St. Charles West High School
1989 – Parkway West High School
1988 – Parkway West High School
1987 – Hickman High School
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