Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Continuing Innovation Grant to the Center for Jazz Studies and American Composers Orchestra for the 2012-13 Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University has just received a $120,000 grant from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Continuing Innovation program to present an expanded version of its innovative Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. The Institute, a collaboration between the Center for Jazz Studies and American Composers Orchestra, engages jazz composers in seminars and workshops on composing for orchestra and professional development. During the first five-day Intensive in 2010 and two days of readings with the American Composers Orchestra in 2011, eight new works were rehearsed, performed and recorded.
"We are honored to support the work of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University," said Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. "This year's grant competition was especially strong, and this grant is a testament to the important work the Center has done and will do for the entire jazz field. We look forward to the expansion of the program and to the new works that will be fostered through it."
For the 2012-13 JCOI, in addition to Columbia and American Composers Orchestra (ACO), UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music will serve as educational partner to present an expanded Intensive in both New York City and Los Angeles. Other project partners include the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (New York), Stockton Symphony and La Jolla Symphony (California).
"The 2010-2011 New York-based Institute was incredibly successful" said John Szwed, Director of the Center for Jazz Studies. "Now the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has made it possible to spread this pioneering work across the country."
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Last Updated June 17, 2010.
