The New Jersey Music Educators Association proudly presents
The 2014 New Jersey All-State Jazz Ensemble and
Honors Jazz Choir
Steven M. Bishop, Jazz Choir Conductor Program To Be Announced
Tim Hagans, Honors Jazz Band Conductor Program To Be Announced
Finale
NJ Honors Jazz Choir & All-State Jazz Ensemble TBA
Steven M. Bishop, Jazz Choir Director Steven M. Bishop, currently the vocal music
instructor at Burlington Township High School, has composed three musicals and has written more than 50 revues. He is the arranger/orches- trator for the upcoming Broadway shows, Genius
Thursday, November 6 , 2014
Will follow the NJEA President’s Affiliates Dinner Convention Center Ballroom, Atlantic City
and
Friday, November 14, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. NJ-PAC Prudential Hall
and Solana. Prior to these positions, he was the musical supervi- sor, orchestrator and computer programmer for the national tours of The Addams Family, The Color Purple, and Spamalot, and was the conductor for the first national tour of Dirty Rotten Scoun- drels. Current projects include musical directing and orchestrating the new adaptation of Camelot, slated to begin a national tour in the fall. Among his many New York credits, Bishop was the con- ductor/musical director for the off-Broadway run of Bingo!, for which he orchestrated, produced, and engineered the original cast CD. Other credits include orchestrating/arranging Riverview (Goodman Theatre), Arthur (Marriott Lincolnshire), EVITA (Ju- piter Theatre) and the National Tours of Ziegfeld, Gypsy, Grand Hotel, and Jolson, The Musical (US Premiere). His arrangements for television have been heard on The Today Show, AMC, Discov- ery, TNN’s Nashville Now, and Bobby Jones Gospel Hour. Com- mercial jingle clients have included Hallmark, Jordache, Bonanza, and Honda. Bishop conducted for Barry Manilow and his musi- cal, Copacabana, and provided orchestrations for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He has had the privilege of working with such artists as Barry Manilow, Gladys Knight, Pat Boone, BJ Crosby, Lou Rawls, K.D. Lang, Deborah Gibson, Frankie Avalon, andMichael Bolton, to name a few. He has also been the musical supervisor for the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, winning acclaim for his compositional and orchestrational contributions to The Green Violin, a new musical which won several Barrymore awards, including best new score. His arrangements and orchestra- tions have been heard on the smash national tours of Grease, star- ring Frankie Avalon. He is the recipient of the Bravo award for his outstanding contribution to the field of musical theatre. Bishop has musically directed over 150 productions including five in Seoul, Korea, and is in constant demand as a vocal and audition coach. As an educator, he has developed arts curriculum at the high school and collegiate levels, and has served as special guest artist in musical theatre for the Interlochen Arts Academy.
Tim Hagans, Jazz Band Director Tim Hagans, an excellent post-bop-oriented
trumpeter, was with the orchestras of Stan Ken- ton (1974-1977) and Woody Herman (1977), before moving to Sweden (1977-1981) where he played with Sahib Shihab, Ernie Wilkins’ Almost Big Band, the Danish Radio Orchestra (which was then directed by Thad Jones), and Dexter Gordon. After returning to the U.S., he taught at
the University of Cincinnati and recorded for the local MoPro label. Hagans taught at Berklee (1984-1986), and then in 1986 he started working with Joe Lovano and Fred Hersch. Later, he made records with Bob Belden, Lovano, Rick Margitza, John Hart, and the Yel- lowjackets, and has worked with the big bands of Bob Mintzer, Maria Schneider, and the Gil Evans orchestra. Tim Hagans has recorded several Blue Note albums as a leader.
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