COMING BACK IN JULY 2009!
July 13-17, 2009
Moravian College
Hurd Campus
Main & Church Streets
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Jazz Ensembles Concerts in Foy
Hall
DATE: 7:00 pm Friday, July 17, 2009
LOCATION: Foy Concert Hall - Hurd Campus, Moravian College
ADMISSION: Free
FREE Lehigh Valley open Jam - Bring Your Instrument! in Foy Hall
DATE: 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 15, 2009
LOCATION: Foy Concert Hall - Hurd Campus, Moravian College
ADMISSION: Free
The MCMI Summer Youth Jazz Camp is open to students
in grades 8-12 in the fall of 2009, AS WELL AS COLLEGE STUDENTS.
The camp is open to interested students of all levels, instruments
and voice. Students with little or no experience will find challenging
and rewarding opportunities for musical growth.
- To instruct students in the performance practices of the art
form, Jazz.
- To familiarize students' with the music theory and historical
elements relevant to jazz performance.
- To enhance the students jazz performance capabilities.
- Advanced ALPHA TRACK
- Combo performance
- Advanced classes/instruction
- Masterclasses with accomplished artists
- Recording classes (digital recording techniques)
- Business of music class
- Jam sessions
- Participation by audition ONLY (Exception: Returning Alpha
Track applicants are automatically accepted, audition not
necessary!)
- Beginning/Intermediate BETA TRACK
- Combo performance
- Jazz classes for beginner and intermediate players
- Theory
- Improv
- History/listening
- Jam sessions
- Masterclasses with accomplished artists
- No audition is required for the BETA TRACK!
This week-long camp begins on Monday morning with
a faculty concert that will segue into a jam session. Monday through
Friday there are scheduled classes and rehearsals from 9:00 AM
- 4:00 PM. Lunch is included in the camper's tuition. The Camper's
Concert will be held Friday evening at 7:00 p.m.
Alpha Track audition
info (PDF) (No audition for Beta track!)
Registration Form (PDF)
Parent/Guardian Permission
Form (PDF)
Camp fees on registration form!
For Registration information contact the Music Institute
610.861.1650 (voice), 610-861-1657 (FAX), or
music@moravian.edu
TONY GAIRO, saxophone
Tony Gairo, saxophone, maintains an active schedule
as a composer, performer, and educator of jazz, the saxophones,
flute, and clarinet, jazz composition, arranging, theory, and
analysis. Voted the 2004 Jazz Musician of the Year - Lehigh Valley
(PA) by Pulseweekly Magazine, he is the leader of the Tony Gairo-Gary
Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra, a 16-piece modern jazz Big Band whose
repertoire consists entirely of his original compositions. Since
1996, he has been an Artist/Lecturer on the Jazz Faculty at Moravian
College in Bethlehem, PA where he is the Director of the Jazz
Combo I and teaches saxophone, flute, clarinet, jazz improvisation,
jazz composition/arranging, and jazz history. Commencing in 2001,
he has participated in the BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop in New
York City. In addition, he has been a pupil of internationally
acclaimed, Grammy-nominated jazz composer, Jim McNeely since 2000.
In 2003, with the Newdelphia Sax Quartet, a group he leads, founded,
and for which he is principle composer/arranger, he released a
compact disc simply titled Newdelphia Sax Quartet. Newdelphia
performs in and around the Greater Philadelphia region with regularity.
In 1997, he recorded and released Leading Off, a CD of seven of
his original compositions for the Tony Gairo Quintet. For more
information: www.tonygairo.com.
ALAN GAUMER, trumpet
Alan Gaumer, trumpet, began playing the trumpet in 1958. He was a member of Kal’s Kids appearing on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour and numerous other television shows. Participating in band, orchestra, and stage bands through elementary, junior and high school he graduated from Freedom High School in 1969. He studied with John Nero and Willard Schissler and performed with the Allentown Band under the direction of Albertis L. Meyers. Alan then attended the U.S. Navy School of Music. Upon graduation he spent the next three years living in Gaeta, Italy touring Europe, Africa and Asia with the Navy Show Band. Prior to his discharge in 1973 he was offered the jazz trumpet position at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. From 1973-75 he toured first as trumpeter and later as drummer with the well known group KATO. Settling back in the Lehigh Valley, Alan was an integral part of the popular group P.F. & the Flyers and his own A.G.Q. After attending Rutgers University, Alan spent two years touring South America and West Africa with the U.S. Navy Show Band. After discharge in 1982, he worked for the next several years at well known hotels and resorts. Alan has been the jazz trumpet Artist/Lecturer at Moravian College since 1994 and served as Fusion ensemble director in 1998-99, 2003-04 and 2005-06. He has performed with a long list of well known jazz personalities including: Randy Brecker, Phil Woods, Al Cohn, George Young, Bob Dorough, Tom Harrell, Bill Watrous, Urbie Green, Kim Parker, Vic Jurris, Charles Fambrough, Bill Washer, John Swanna, David Leonhardt, Steve Gilmore, Bill Goodwin, Bobby Routch, Tom Schuman of Spyro Gyra and others. In performance he and his wife (Robin Bryan) form the duo Body & Soul. Additionally he together with: Nelson Hill, Tom Kozic, Craig Kastelnik, and Gary Rissmiller form the quintet Co-Op Bop. He has been the recipient of several grants. He lists several recording credits. The most recent include a collaboration with the Moravian Jazz Faculty and a collection of original compositions by the Quintet Co-Op Bop. Additionally Alan & Co-Op Bop are rostered artists with Young Audiences of Eastern Pennsylvania. The Quintet uses familiar cartoon themes such as The Flintstones and Pink Panther to teach young students about our rich national treasure called: Jazz. www.co-opbop.net
jazz vocalist
is a Philadelphia
native who thrives on the cultural and musical heritage of that city. Lou has music
in his genes - an opera singer grandfather, a classical violinist father, and a pianist,
organist & music
teaching mother. His jazz influence came from another of
his relatives, Vince Trombetta, a saxophonist & arranger who
served as musical director of The Mike Douglas Show. Lou’s
music teachers include Jimmy Bruno and Larry McKenna. His
live performances in Philadelphia, New York, and Atlantic City
have earned him the admiration of many industry professionals
including Bootsie Barnes, Henry Mancini, & Tony Bennett.
Some of Lou’s CDs include: The Road Not Taken (C.A.B. Records), Corner Pocket (J-Bird Records), Shadows and Echoes (Challenge
Records), and on Cexton Records Opening Doors: A Jazz
Tribute to The Doors and An Intimate
Portrait in Blue. Lou has appeared
in a series jazz related of spots on BET. And Lou will be
listed among the top 500 jazz vocalists of all time in The Jazz
Singers by critic/author Scott Yanow. In June 2004, Lou will appeared
in a two man tribute to Frank Sinatra at the Red Room of the Philadelphia’s
Society Hill Playouse where he portrayed the younger Sinatra.
Lou is a member of the music faculty at Moravian College.
drum set
is a native
of Bethlehem, PA. Mr. Rissmiller has been playing drums for more than twenty-five years.
He has studied with Joe Morello and performed with jazz greats Phil Woods, Dave
Liebman, Eric Kloss, Tom Harrell, Randy Brecker, Don Patterson, Urbie Green, George
Young, Bobby Troupe, Janet Lawson, Gary King, and others. He has opened for Lionel
Hampton, Cab Calloway, Joe Henderson, and Spyro Gyra. He performs regularly with his own combos, The
Skip Wilkins/]ill Allen Quartet, The Nick Driscoll Quartet, The Alan Gaumer Quintet,
among others. His appearances include The Village Gate and Tavern on the
Green in New
York City; The Deerhead Inn in Delaware Water Gap, PA; and Ortlieb's Jazz
Haus, Chris's,
and the Blue Moon Jazz Club in Philadelphia. He has performed at The Delaware
Water Gap Celebration of the Arts since its inception. He has also played at the Central
Pennsylvania Mellon Jazz Festival, The Scranton (PA) Jazz Festival, The
Wichita (Kansas) Jazz Festival,
and Mayfair (Allentown, PA), and as artist~in~residence at Musikfest (Bethlehem, PA).
double bass
has been on the faculty at Moravian since 1991 as an instructor
of double bass and bass guitar. He has directed jazz ensembles
and teaches jazz history and improvisation practicum. Paul is
also one of the directors for the popular July Jazz Getaway and
accompanies the guest artists who appear annually at the camp.
Some of the popular artists he has performed
with include Frank Sinatra, Olivia Newton John, Maureen McGovern,
Perry Como, Joel Grey, Sandy Duncan, John Davidson, and Steve
Allen. Jazz artists with whom Paul has appeared include: Stanley
Turrentine, Urbie Green, Bob Dorough, Maynard Ferguson, David
Fathead Newman, Clark Terry, John Coates, Bobby Watson, Ellis
Marsalis, Al Grey, Buddy Childers, Carl Fontana, and Bill Watrous.
He also tours and records with vocalist, Frank Sinatra, Jr. and
his orchestra.
piano
is a versatile musician who performs in
a wide variety of both classical and jazz settings. Dave is a graduate of Pocono Mountain
High School and Moravian College. He completed a Master's degree in
classical piano performance at the University of Northern Colorado while studying with
Errol Haun and Rob Hallquist. His jazz performances have included collaborations with: Paul
Warburton, Tony Marino, Steve Gilmore, Larry McKenna, Paul Rostock, Glenn Davis, Rich
Chiaraluce, Gary Rissmiller, and Peter Smyser. Dave's commercial performances have
included keyboard work for Michael Amante and Regis Philbin, and he has given many other
live performances on radio and television shows.
camp director
Dr. Neil Wetzel is Assistant Professor of Music
at Moravian College (Bethlehem, PA) where he teaches saxophone
and is Director of Jazz Studies. Having earned both a BM (Jazz
Performance) and MAT degrees from the University of the Arts in
Philadelphia, he also completed a doctorate in music education
(EdD) at Teacher's College, Columbia University. His dissertation
focused on teaching jazz improvisation. As founder and music director
of Moravian College's summer music camp, July Jazz Getaway, Dr.
Wetzel has worked and played with Clark Terry, Al Grey, Terrell
Stafford, Milt Grayson, Stanley Turrentine, and Bobby Watson.
He has backed many great performers, including Tony Bennett, Natalie
Cole, Bob Hope, Johnny Mathis, Bernadette Peters, the Temptations,
and the Four Tops. He has recorded with the Philly Pops Orchestra
and singer Patti Page in Carnegie Hall - the CD won the 1999 Grammy
for best Pop Traditional Performance. He can also be heard on
four CD's with jazz pianist Eric Mintel: Live, Hopscotch, Dynamo,
and Four on the Floor. Dr. Wetzel has also played and taught at
the Lana Jazz Festival in Lana, Italy, as well as the Karel Velebny
Jazz Workshop in Frydlant, Czech Republic. He can also be heard
on the CD Simone on Simone (released on Koch Records) featuring
the jazz singer, Simone with the Rob Stoneback Big Band.
Following the tradition of over 250 years of music
in Bethlehem and located in the historic district, THE MORAVIAN
COLLEGE MUSIC INSTITUTE encourages the art of music through study
and performance at all levels for any student or member of the
community. Offerings include private lessons, master classes,
group ensembles and Suzuki education.
MCMI offers excellent year round concert programming
to suit any musical taste.
For More Information on Classes or MCMI Events, Call: 610.861.1650
music@moravian.edu
