Jazz Fellowship Awards
Next Jazz Fellowship Awards in 2011
Honorary Chair
Dave Brubeck
Nominations for the 2011 Jazz Fellowship Awards
Call for nominations will take place in February 2010.
The five Finalists will be announced in May 2010.
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The Jazz Fellowship Awards are produced every four years by the American Pianists Association to select the Cole Porter Fellow of the APA. A distinguished panel of musicians adjudicates in an anonymous fashion the preliminary round and chooses five finalists from the recordings submitted by the applicants. The five Finalists are invited to Indianapolis for community outreach concerts, social occasions, the premiere series, the semi-final and finals rounds of the competition. The Cole Porter Fellow receives a two-year fellowship worth $75,000; $50,000 cash award and a two-year fellowship to include in-kind career assistance, publicity, professional fees and other opportunities worldwide - the largest award for a jazz pianist in the world.
Five prominent figures from the jazz world judge the semi-final round of competition, which involves two sets of performances at the Jazz Kitchen in both solo and trio performances, and the finals, which feature specially commissioned arrangements of jazz standards for piano and jazz orchestra.
2007 Jazz Fellowship Awards Finalists
- Victor Gould
- Jacob Koller
- Jeremy Siskind
- Dan Tepfer
- Glenn Zaleski
2007 Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz
2007 Jazz Fellowship Awards Judges
Preliminary
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| Steve Allee, jazz pianist, Grammy-nominated composer, arranger, and jazz pianist | Phil DeGreg, international recording artist and jazz educator |
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| Alain Mallet, jazz pianist, composer, producer, and educator | John Salmon, 1983 APA Fellow, critically-acclaimed jazz and classical pianist and educator |
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| Brent Wallarab, international jazz composer and arranger, artistic director of the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra | |
Finals
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| Fred Hersch, jazz pianist, two-time Grammy nominee and 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellow | Joel Chriss, President & Founder of Joel Chriss & Co. management agency |
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| Lynne Arriale, international jazz pianist and recording artist | Renee Rosnes, jazz pianist, winner for three Juno Awards and founding member of the San Francisco Jazz Collective |
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| Denny Zeitlin, critically-acclaimed MaxJazz recording artist and two-time winner of the Down Beat International Jazz Critics Pool | |