Jazz Fellowship Awards









The Jazz Fellowship Awards are produced every three 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 will 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 will feature specially commissioned arrangements of jazz standards for piano and jazz orchestra on April 28, 2007 at the Madame Walker Theatre.

2007 Jazz Fellowship Awards Finalists

  • Victor Gould
  • Jacob Koller
  • Jeremy Siskind
  • Dan Tepfer
  • Glenn Zaleski

2007 Jazz Fellowship Awards Judges

Preliminary

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


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


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

 

Finals

Fred Hersch Joel Chriss
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 Renee Rosnes
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


Denny Zeitlin  
Denny Zeitlin, critically-acclaimed MaxJazz recording artist and two-time winner of the Down Beat International Jazz Critics Pool  

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