The New Jersey Music Educators Association proudly presents
The 2017 New Jersey All-State Jazz Ensemble and
Honors Jazz Choir
Timothy Brent, Jazz Choir Conductor Program to be selected from:
Spinning Wheel.................................... arr. Tim Brent Stardust ................................................ arr. Tim Brent Smack Dab in the Middle .................... arr. Tim Brent Love Makes the World Go ‘Round arr. Darmon Meader More I Can Not Wish You ............... arr. Phil Mattson Waters of March
.............................arr. Gerhard Guter Cold Duck ..................................... arr. Rosana Eckert The Very Thought of You .................... arr. Jeremy Fox
Walt Weiskopf, Honors Jazz Ensemble Conductor Program to be selected from:
Interloper
..................................................Thad Jones Best Coast
...........................................John LaBarbera Gentle Piece ....................................... Kenny Wheeler Three Sets for Jazz Ensemble ................Walt Weiskopf ‘Round Midnight
....Thelonious Monk, arr. Dave Lieb Little Pixie
.................................................Thad Jones Manteca ..............................................Dizzy Gillespie
Finale
NJ Honors Jazz Choir & All-State Jazz Ensemble TBA
Thursday, November 9 , 2017 Claridge Hotel Theater 7:30 p.m.
and
Friday, November 17, 2017 NJ-PAC Chase Room 7:00 p.m.
Timothy Brent, Jazz Choir Director Tim Brent is a 9-time DownBeat Award-
Winning vocal jazz educator, pianist, arranger and performer. Currently, he is the visiting assistant professor of popular music studies at Westminster College of the Arts at Rider University (Princeton, NJ). Most recently he was the director of the vocal jazz/contemporary program at Miami-Dade College Kendall campus. Tim is active as a performer and
works regularly as a vocalist and pianist. Before accepting the position as the director of vocal jazz studies at the
University of North Texas (2009-2010), Tim completed his doctorate at the prestigious University of Miami and was teaching at both UM and Miami- Dade College. Previously he was the Assistant Professor and Director of Jazz Vocal Studies at The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and was the director of the vocal jazz program at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). Tim received his bachelor’s degree in choral music education from Western
Michigan University where he was a member of the internationally renowned vocal jazz ensemble Gold Company under the direction of Steve Zegree before obtaining his master’s degree in jazz pedagogy from the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) where he was a teaching assistant under program direc- tor Larry Lapin. Tim has had vocal arrangements published by the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press and Sound Music Publications, and has had numerous works performed/recorded by high school and college vocal groups throughout the country including Gold Company (Western Michigan Univer- sity) JV 1 (University of Miami), Jazz Singers (University of North Texas) and SUNY Potsdam (New York).
Walt Weiskopf, Jazz Ensemble Director Saxophonist, composer and author Walt
Weiskopf has made an impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed albums and countless sideman cred- its. A dynamic player with enormous technical prowess, Weiskopf is equally well-regarded as a composer, with albums containing predomi- nantly original work.
Born in Augusta, Georgia, Weiskopf grew up outside Syracuse, New York.
He took up his first instrument, the clarinet, at age 10 and began his saxophone studies four years later. After graduating from Rochester’s Eastman School of Music in three years, he moved to New York City in 1980. He began his profes- sional career performing with the Buddy Rich Big Band in 1981 at the age of 21. In 1983, Weiskopf began a fourteen-year association with jazz pianist and arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi. Weiskopf was a visiting Associate Professor part-time at the Eastman
School of Music from 2001 to 2008, then taught at Temple University, and is currently the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at New Jersey City University.
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