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Monday, October 17, 2022

Jazz Improvisation wth HMI at Frost, UM/ Fall 2022

 

Maria Schneider, a Grammy award winning jazz composer, has been at the University of Miami for a week-long residency with the students in the Henry Mancini Institute at Frost School of Music. She has a love of working with dancers and musicians improvising together to create new spontaneous performance works.  She organized another dance/music improvisation workshop Monday, October 17 from 7:10-8:10pm at the Nancy Green Hall. A similar event took place previously before the pandemic. One musician was paired with one dancer, at times several musicians collaborated with several dancers, each inspiring each other to move and play together.

The videos bellow document the participation of Frost's Professor Jorge Morejón and students Kevin King (oboe) and Andrew Tinch (guitar). The event included other musicians such as Janelle Finton (trumpet), Luca Stine (trumpet), Aron Stornaiulo (dance), Savannah Methner (trumpet), Sam Leviatin (trumpet), Henry Mohr (drums), Sofia Garas (voice) and Jameson Falconer (voice).    The other dancers were Professor Carol Kaminsky, Professor Cristina Leyva, graduate student Esther Baker, students Nicole Kujas and Ashna Vaidyanath.

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