NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies

Only one month until applications for Early Decision 1 are due!

Not familiar with our program? Follow this link to learn more about faculty and degree details: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/programs/jazz-studies

Good luck on your applications!

We were so fortunate to host Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer Bruno Mangueira in our masterclass last Wednesday. Bruno demonstrated the difference between Samba and Bossa Nova styles, inviting students to workshop comping and melody phrasing on standards. Even director Dave Pietro joined in!

Thank you, Bruno! .music

We’re thrilled to announce a new faculty member at NYU Jazz Studies, Brandon Lee!

Bach Artist, Brandon Lee is a New York City-based jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, and educator. Lee has worked with a plethora of artists and bands in the NYC area, including, the Kenny Barron Quintet, Kurt Elling, Aaron Diehl, Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Ron Carter Big Band, Jimmy Heath Big Band, Danny Jonokuchi Big Band, Darcy James Argue and many more. He is also part of a series of tours with a lindy hop show, Swing Out, featuring the Eyal Vilner Big Band. Currently, Lee is an orchestra member in the brand new, 4-time Tony award-winning musical, Some Like It Hot.

Welcome to NYU, Brandon!

Hope the first week of classes went well! Ensembles are starting next week… be on the lookout for concert announcements later this semester. Looking forward to a musical semester!

Happy Summer! We’re thrilled to begin the first of two Summer Jazz Workshops on Monday. As a part of the workshops, we’re hosting the 2023 NYU Summer Jazz Festival! That begins Tuesday night with The Lenny White Trio. All concerts are free, open to the public, and begin 7pm at Provincetown Playhouse. Come hang with us!

Our Spring 2023 has finally come to an end. Congrats to all of our students for finishing strong! We hope you all have a great summer, and we hope to see some new and familiar faces at our NYU summer jazz workshop!

Congratulations to all of our graduates! We are so proud of each and every one of you!!

We have officially wrapped up our NYU spring jazz festival 2023! Over the last two weeks, all of our ensembles have either performed an NYU venue (or the blue note!) as part of the festival, or had time in our NYU Dolan Recording Studio to showcase their semester work! Thank you to those who attended or joined via livestream!

Happy Last Day of Classes from NYU Jazz! It's been a long semester of hard work and music making. Good luck on finals! Study hard!

TOMORROW is the day for the NYU Blue Note Brunch!

Come support NYU Jazz studies at the Blue Note TOMORROW- sets are 12:30 and 2:30pm.

Featuring the Martin Wind Ensemble and the NYU World Music Ensemble led by Brad Shepik. Reserve tickets now!

12:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006195
2:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006205

One more chance! Tonight’s the last night for the NYU Jazz Fest at our NYU venues! BUT you can still get tickets for Blue Note Brunch to see the World Music Ensemble led by Brad Shepik and the Martin Wind Ensemble on Sunday May 7! Sets are 12:30 and 2:30 and ticket links can be found here:

12:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006195
2:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006205

Great job to all of our ensembles last week at the NYU Jazz Festival!
We're kicking off the second week of the NYU Jazz Fest tomorrow starting with the Dion Tucker Ensemble and the NYU All University Jazz Orchestra at the Frederick Lowe Theater. Don't miss this! The shows are open to the public, so come on out!

ONE WEEK LEFT! Don't wait!

There's one week left to buy tickets to our NYU Jazz Brunch at the Blue Note with the Martin Wind Ensemble and the World Music Ensemble!

Tickets are available here!
12:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006195
2:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006205

The Dave Pietro Quintet is performing LIVE tonight at the Provincetown Playhouse as part of our NYU Jazz Festival. He is bringing an incredible band including Mike Rodriguez, Gary Versace, Johannes Weidenmueller, and Jonathan Blake. Come support our fearless program director, Dave Pietro!

Tonight is NIGHT ONE of the NYU spring Jazz Studies Festival 2023! 8-10pm at Provincetown Playhouse!

Kicking off the night with:

Mingus Ensemble
Brazilian Music Ensemble
Dezron Douglas Ensemble

Livestream available here-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amC6_Z7SByQ

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We had a great collegium seminar yesterday with Edu Ribeiro, Vinicius Gomes, and Noah Garabedian! Their session was part performance, part Q&A, part workshop! Our students enjoyed and interactive class learning about Brazilian music

Two of our NYU ensembles will be performing on May 7 at the Blue Note Brunch! The Martin Wind Ensemble has a 12:30 set and the NYU World Music Ensemble led by Brad Shepik will begin at 2:30pm. Hope to see you there.

Blue Note New York



Ticket Links are below:

12:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006195

2:30PM - https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/shows/?eid=13006205

The NYU jazz festival starts this week! Check out these awesome ensembles and see what our students have been working on this semester.

🚨 NOW ANNOUNCING! NYU Jazz Festival Lineup!!

All information can be found here:

https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/programs/jazz-studies

Scroll down to see information about our events under “News & Updates” ! Hope to see you all there!

NYU Jazz Orchestra Performs with Combo Nuvo next week on Monday, April 17 at 7:00 PM! This is a free and ticketed event-- all tickets can be reserved at this link:

https://tickets.nyu.edu/nyu2040

The One World Suite + 500 Harmonics is written and directed by Rich Shemaria. The event will be hosted at Skirball (566 Laguardia Place) right off of Washington Square Park.

We can't wait to see you there! Come learn to play the harmonica and enjoy this beautiful suite!

Recital season is well underway in the jazz studies department! We have 18 recitals this semester between our junior and senior undergrad students. Recitals are now open to non-NYU community members, so make sure to check with your student to coordinate your attendance!

We also had a fun performance last week with this group in our undergraduate collegium seminar. Lots of great music coming ahead!

There’s still time to apply for our NYU Summer Jazz Workshop session 2!

Not familiar with our summer workshop? Follow this link to learn more: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/.../jazz-improv-workshop-new...

Our summer workshops will consist of a daily improvisation class, a daily masterclass with special guest instructors, daily small ensemble rehearsals with NYU or guest faculty, and a daily jazz composition class.
The app. deadline is April 14

We can't wait to see you this summer!

Good luck on your applications!

Attention all students interested in our NYU Summer Jazz Workshop!

There is ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for session one! Deadline is March 31.

Not familiar with our summer workshop? Follow this link to learn more: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/programs/jazz-studies/summer-intensives/jazz-improv-workshop-new-york-city

Our summer workshops will consist of a daily improvisation class, a daily masterclass with special guest instructors, daily small ensemble rehearsals with NYU or guest faculty, and a daily jazz composition class.

Can't make it to session 1? Apply for session 2 (app. deadline April 14).

We can't wait to see you this summer! Good luck on your applications!

We enjoyed a fun concert put on by three NYU undergrads in our collegium seminar today. They brought a new and innovative sound to the stage. Great job!!

Welcome back everybody! We hope to you all had a restful break. So nice to see it back and busy again 🎶

Our halls have quieted back down from the surge of auditions last week!! Congrats and thank you for all of our undergraduate applicants. It was a pleasure to have you all here!

We lost one of the greats today.

Wayne Shorter was a groundbreaking musician, composer, arranger, improvisor, and mentor. He left a huge impact on so many through his musicianship and masterful compositions.

We are so proud to call Wayne an esteemed alumni and are so grateful of his impact on the NYU community. We hope to continue to honor his legacy at NYU.

We had 2 great performances last week in our undergraduate collegium seminar and our graduate student seminar.

A student group performed and shared a set of music with our undergrads! We had a special guest join the group of NYU students on drums.

In our graduate seminar, we had Sebastien Paindestre and Nicolas Prost perform. It was a great day of music!

It was a delight having Brandon Lee today as a guest in our undergraduate collegium program seminar. Our students had a great time playing with Brandon and learning some good lessons!

Thank you Brandon!

Caroline Davis joined us for our undergraduate collegium seminar yesterday! She played an awesome performance on saxophone with pedals and provided some great answers to thoughtful questions asked by our students. Thank you !!!

We're so excited for two of our NYU Alumns! Congratulations to Steven Feifke and Wayne Shorter for their grammy awards!

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album went to the
“Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra” led by Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson, Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra.

Wayne Shorter was listed as a best improvised jazz solo on Endangered Species.

Congratulations to our NYU Alums, we are so proud!

We started up our undergraduate collegium seminar this week with guitarist Nir Felder! This was a super great clinic for our students, as Nir shared great music and stories from his career.

We were also delighted to welcome Jon Gordon as a guest in our Improv II course taught by Alan Ferber. He started off the class with a great performance and shared some improvisational techniques with the class.

Thank you to our guests!! We can’t wait for next week.

Today is the first day of Black History Month! NYU Steinhardt is putting on 2 special concerts at the end of the month. One of which features NYU jazz studies faculty member Lenny White!!

“In observance of Black History Month, the NYU Percussion Ensemble will present Tim Adams’ 8:46, which was commissioned by the ensemble with the Aspen Music Festival and School and is part of the composer’s ongoing musical contribution to the Black Lives Matter movement. In addition, the ensemble will feature the world premiere of Lenny White’s The Magnificent Seven and a rare arrangement of Duke Ellington’s Malletoba S***k for percussion ensemble.
This performance is free and open to the public.
Livestreaming(link is external) is also available.”

Welcome back to the spring semester!! We've got some exciting things planned this spring and we can't wait to show you what we are up to along the way. Stay tuned for more from NYU Jazz!

We’re live! Catch our NYU Jazz Orchestra and Dave Liebman Ensemble on our YouTube livestream here:

NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies Live Stream The NYU Jazz Orchestra & The Dave Liebman EnsembleLive @ Provincetown PlayhouseFriday, December 16th @ 8pm

The NYU Jazz Orchestra and the Dave Liebman Ensemble will perform TOMORROW (December 16) at NYU's own Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal St. The show starts at 8PM! You won't want to miss this! Doors will open at 7:45 pm. See you there!

Happy last day of class for our fall 2022 semester! We wish all of our students the best of luck on their finals and a happy holiday season. We are also looking forward to an additional performance from our jazz studies students happening this Friday to conclude the semester, so stay tuned for more information on that!

We have some exciting application deadlines coming up in the new year!! We're so excited to hear from all of our new applicants. January 1: undergrad early decision 2 apps are due, January 5: Regular decision BM apps are due. January 6 Masters and Artist Diploma Apps are due. Save the dates!

Our All University Jazz Orchestra directed by Dion Tucker and our Dion Tucker Ensemble perform tonight (12/6) at the Frederick Loewe Theater. Live Stream link is here! Show starts at 8 PM EST. We hope to see you there or on the stream :)

https://youtu.be/cG0MsCudGJg

Today we’ll have our very first Instagram Takeover! NYU Jazz Studies undergraduate senior Olivia Hughart will be taking you through her day today and answering questions on our Instagram Story. Give us a follow and never miss a beat!



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About Olivia:

Olivia Hughart is a jazz saxophonist/woodwind doubler, composer, and advocate, who is now a senior at NYU majoring in Saxophone Performance/Jazz Studies with a minor in public policy/management. Throughout her time at NYU, she has had the pleasure of working with artist faculty members including Dave Pietro, Dave Liebman, Billy Drewes, Alan Ferber, Patricia Brennan, Drew Gress, Brad Shepik, and Mike Rodriguez. Olivia is an active musician in NYC and is also the founder/artistic director of Key of She Jazz, an organization that supports and encourages more girls to be involved in jazz, starting at a middle school level. More information can be found at oliviahughart.com