During the week of October 12, the Vermont Jazz Center will launch its 2020 educational season.

This fall’s new offerings make good use of the Jazz Center’s summer faculty: instructors can now Zoom in from afar to reach students from all around the world.

VJC’s expanded educational programs includes online options as well as onsite opportunities for
local participants run in accordance with local and safety guidelines.

In- person classes (at VJC) cannot include wind players nor vocalists at this time.

See https://vtjazz.org/education/classes/ for details.

10 weeks, from October 12th until December 18th (makeup classes for Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving week will take place on Dec. 21, 22, 23).

The fee for the semester for on-line classes is either $250 or $200, depending on the class (most on-line courses are one and one half hours) and $200 for in-person offerings (which run one hour), excepting Samba and Youth Jazz which are $100 and Zoom Tunes ($15 per session).

To register, please contact Ginger Morawski at gingervjc@gmail.com. For questions about class content contact Eugene Uman eugene@vtjazz.org. Scholarship funds are available.

Classes offered (online unless otherwise noted) and instructors are:

Rhythm Lab- Brian Shankar Adler

Blue Note Ensemble (at VJC)- Claire Arenius

Ear Training Theory- Michael Zsoldos

Youth Jazz Ensemble- Eugene Uman

Soubrette Choir- Anna Patton

The Bass: What to Practice- David Picchi

Latin Jazz Ensemble (at VJC)- Eugene Uman, Julian Gerstin

Singing the Standards- Jay Clayton

Jazz Guitar Ensemble (at VJC)- Draa Hobbs

Jazz History- Haneef Nelson

Samba Percussion Ensemble (in person/outdoors, alternate Sundays)- Julian Gerstin, Ron Kelley

Zoom Tunes (two dates only)- Malik Mclaurine, Ben Barnett, Franz Robert