Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue!

This programme will focus on a 4-way close harmony, SATB vocal arrangements accompanied by a jazz rhythm section. The repertoire consists of NY Voices’ arrangements, “Avalon” and “Why Don’t You Write Me?”; Gerhard Guter’s, “The Waters of March”; Rosana Eckert’s wordless arrangement of “Sandu”; and Vox Arsana’s, “Zemlja pleše”. Let’s marry vocal jazz!

Repertoire

Al Jolson (1886–1950)/Darmon Meader (1961):
AVALON (Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva, Vincent Rose)

Paul Simon (1941)/Darmon Meader (1961), Peter Eldridge (1962), Lauren Kinhan (1963), Kim Nazarian (1961):
WHY DON’T YOU WRITE ME (Paul Simon)

Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994)/Gerhard Guter (1974):
WATERS OF MARCH (Antonio Carlos Jobim)

Clifford Eugene Brown (1930–1956)/Rosana Eckert (1974):
SANDU (onomatopoeic syllables)

Mojmir Sepe (1930)/Special arrangement for the EC Festival 2021:
ZEMLJA PLEŠE (Gregor Strniša)

The participants will be able to attend the atelier with original scores only. The use of photocopies shall not be permitted. We will offer affordable set of sheet music specified by the mentor of the atelier. The participants will be able to purchase them only after receiving the confirmation of participation in the chosen atelier. The link to the online store will be published here in April 2021.

Mentor

Kim Nazarian (US)

Kim Nazarian (US)
Kim Nazarian is a world renowned performing Grammy-nominated jazz artist, educator and clinician. Besides her work as a sought-after solo vocalist, she has been performing all over the world with the vocal group New York Voices (NYV) for more than 30 years. She is a jazz voice teacher via Skype for Vocal Jazz Majors at Ithaca College and she shares her perspectives on music and life as a musician through teaching private students in clinics, workshops, jazz camps and masterclasses, as well as through festival adjudication and guest conducting for singers on all levels in the US and abroad.