Jazz 1 (Advanced Jazz) has been invited to give a special performance at the 48th Annual Berklee Jazz Festival, where our own Janis Stockhouse will be presented with the John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award! Festival organizers thought it would be great to have the band come with Ms. Stockhouse and have even generously provided $4000 toward expenses. Thus, from Jan. 29-Feb. 1, Jazz 1 students will be traveling to Boston (via a 15-hour bus ride), performing as guest artists at the Festival, and seeing some of the sights in the area. Congratulations to Ms. Stockhouse and the band!
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The Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival will be held Jan. 31, 2015 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. This annual event is the largest of its kind in the United States, with over 175 bands performing. It is free, and open the public.
Reproduced from festival.berkleejazz.org/schedule-of-events/ :
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Bloomington High School North Advanced Jazz Ensemble
Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Second Level
Directed by the 2015 John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award recipient, Janis Stockhouse
The John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award is named after a legendary jazz educator who served as a distinguished professor at Berklee College of Music for more than three decades. This award, offered in conjunction with the Jazz Education Network (JEN) organization, is presented at the national JEN conference and, starting this year, represented [again] at the Berklee High School Jazz Festival.
About the Recipient: Janis Stockhouse
A graduate of the Indiana University School of Music, Janis has spent the past 34 years as Director of Bands at Bloomington High School North. During this tenure, North’s Symphonic Band has qualified for the ISSMA State Finals 28 of 30 times, with two State Championships and numerous top-five finishes to their credit. North’s Jazz Trio recently performed at the 2015 Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference in San Diego.
Janis is the co-author of the Indiana University Press publication Jazzwomen: Conversational Portraits With 21 Musicians. Throughout her career, Janis has received numerous honors for her contributions to music education, including being named the 2005 Arts Educator of the Year (Bloomington Area Arts Council); 1997 Indiana Music Educator of the Year; 2005 James B. Calvert Music Educator of the Year (Indiana Wind Symphony); 2007 Al Cobine Award for Jazz Education (Jazz from Bloomington); and 2014 Jazz Hero (Jazz Journalists Association).
Throughout her career Janis has shaped the musical and artistic lives of thousands of students—and is proud to say that many of them have gone on to pursue their own careers in music as performers, university professors, high school teachers, or other music industry professionals.
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