Jazz Fellowship Awards

Next Jazz Fellowship Awards in 2011

Call for nominations will take place in February 2010.

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 a week of community outreach concerts, social occasions and the semi-final and finals rounds of the competition. The Cole Porter Fellow receives a two-year fellowship worth $75,000 in cash award, career assistance, publicity, professional fees and other opportunities worldwide.

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

Dan Tepfer

2007 Jazz Fellowship Awards Judges

Preliminary


Steve Allee, jazz pianist, Grammy-nominated composer, arranger, and jazz pianist	Phil DeGreg, international recording artist and jazz educator


Alain Mallet, jazz pianist, composer, producer, and educator	John Salmon, 1983 APA Fellow, critically-acclaimed jazz and classical pianist and educator


Brent Wallarab, international jazz composer and arranger, artistic director of the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra

Finals


Fred Hersch, jazz pianist, two-time Grammy nominee and 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellow	Joel Chriss, President & Founder of Joel Chriss & Co. management agency


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