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October 27-28, 2007 Los Angeles, CA
Washington, DC - The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will present its 20th annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition and a Tribute to Herbie Hancock, sponsored by Cadillac and GMAC Financial Services, in Los Angeles on October 27-28, 2007. The Competition will feature 10 of the world's most outstanding young jazz trumpeters who will travel to Los Angeles from all corners of the globe to compete for major scholarships and prizes.
The Semifinals will be held on Saturday, October 27th at 1:00 p.m. at Schoenberg Hall on the campus of the University of California - Los Angeles (445 Charles E. Young Drive). The Finals will be held on Sunday, October 28th at 5:00 p.m. at the Kodak Theatre of the Hollywood & Highland Center (6801 Hollywood Boulevard), where three finalists will vie for a $20,000 first place scholarship, $10,000 second place scholarship, and $5,000 third place scholarship.
This year's semifinalists are Ambrose Akinmusire (California), Maurice Brown (Illinois), Jean Caze (native of Haiti), Philip Dizack (Wisconsin), Josh Evans (Connecticut), Vitaly Golovnev (Russia), Tobias Kaemmerer (Wisconsin), Nadje Noordhuis (Australia), Michael Rodriguez (Florida), and Charles Porter (Florida).
The Competition, compared in stature to that of the classical Tchaikovsky and Van Cliburn Competitions, is the most prestigious jazz competition in the world, and is widely known for discovering the jazz stars of tomorrow. It has launched the careers of pianists Marcus Roberts and Jacky Terrasson, saxophonist Joshua Redman, and vocalists Jane Monheit and Tierney Sutton, to name a few. These artists and dozens of others from past Competitions have forged successful careers as performing and recording artists as well as music educators. They have earned worldwide respect and media attention while helping to preserve and perpetuate America's legacy of jazz.
Each year the Competition shines the spotlight on a different instrument. Past Competitions have featured the saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, vocals, piano, bass, and drums. This year's young aspiring jazz trumpeters will perform for an illustrious panel of judges, including renowned jazz trumpeters Herb Alpert, Roy Hargrove, Quincy Jones, Hugh Masekela, Clark Terry, and Terence Blanchard, Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.
Following the three finalists, the audience will be treated to a special performance of the winning composition of the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition winner Petros Sakelliou (Greece), sponsored by BMI. The $10,000 Composers Award is presented annually to the young, aspiring composer who best demonstrates originality, creativity, and excellence in jazz composition. The 2007 Composers Competition is devoted to jazz compositions that feature the trumpet. BMI is one of the world's largest performing rights organizations, representing the works of Thelonious Monk and more than 350,000 composers, songwriters, and music publishers in all genres of music.
The second half of the evening will feature a star-studded Tribute to music legend Herbie Hancock with performances by some of the greatest musical artists of all time, including Sting, Joni Mitchell, Chris Botti, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, George Benson, Nancy Wilson, Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard, Clark Terry, George Duke, Roy Hargrove, and many others. Rickey Minor will serve as Producer and Music Director for the event.
The Competition will be taped as a documentary for Black Entertainment Television and the BET J cable network (formerly BET Jazz). The documentary will include performances by the semifinalists, backstage interviews with the finalists and judges, and footage from the post-Competition reception.
Ticket Information
Admission to the October 27th Semifinals is free of charge and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets for the October 28th Finals at the Kodak Theatre may be purchased at Ticketmaster, by calling 213-480-3232, or online at www.ticketmaster.com. For information about Gala tickets, which include a VIP post-performance dinner and cast party, please call Levi, Pazanti and Associates at 310.201.5033 or the Institute at 202.364.7272.
About the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a nonprofit education organization, was founded in 1986 in memory of the legendary jazz pianist and composer. The Institute fosters the next generation of jazz greats by offering the world's most promising young musicians college level training by America's jazz masters, educating young people around the world about jazz through innovative public school initiatives, and presenting a wide range of programs that help to expand and perpetuate America's indigenous musical art form. For more information on the Institute, please visit our website. - All About Jazz
Spectrum Arts Festival: featured artists
the BandA ecLectics
The music of the BandA ecLectics blends compositions with improvisation under the leadership of Boston University student Petros
Sakelliou. The band has drawn members from jazz, folk, classical, and world music backgrounds. Winners of the 2007 Thelonious
Monk Institute of Jazz Composition Competition, the BandA ecLectics has received national acclaim and recognition for their eclectic
mix of talents. They were featured at the Composition Competition’s gala concert honoring Herbie Hancock, playing alongside Sting,
Joni Mitchell, and Quincy Jones. - Boston University
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will present its 20th annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition and a Tribute to Herbie Hancock, sponsored by Cadillac and GMAC Financial Services, in Los Angeles on October 27-28, 2007. The Competition will feature 10 of the world's most outstanding young jazz trumpeters who will travel to Los Angeles from all corners of the globe to compete for major scholarships and prizes.
The Semifinals will be held on Saturday, October 27th at Schoenberg Hall on the campus of the University of California - Los Angeles (445 Charles E. Young Drive). The Finals will be held on Sunday, October 28th at the Kodak Theatre of the Hollywood & Highland Center (6801 Hollywood Boulevard), where three finalists will vie for a $20,000 first place scholarship, $10,000 second place scholarship, and $5,000 third place scholarship.
This year's semifinalists are Ambrose Akinmusire (California), Maurice Brown (Illinois), Jean Caze (native of Haiti), Philip Dizack (Wisconsin), Josh Evans (Connecticut), Vitaly Golovnev (Russia), Tobias Kaemmerer (Wisconsin), Nadje Noordhuis (Australia), Michael Rodriguez (Florida), and Charles Porter (Florida).
The Competition, compared in stature to that of the classical Tchaikovsky and Van Cliburn Competitions, is the most prestigious jazz competition in the world, and is widely known for discovering the jazz stars of tomorrow. It has launched the careers of pianists Marcus Roberts and Jacky Terrasson, saxophonist Joshua Redman, and vocalists Jane Monheit and Tierney Sutton, to name a few. These artists and dozens of others from past Competitions have forged successful careers as performing and recording artists as well as music educators. They have earned worldwide respect and media attention while helping to preserve and perpetuate America's legacy of jazz.
Each year the Competition shines the spotlight on a different instrument. Past Competitions have featured the saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, vocals, piano, bass, and drums. This year's young aspiring jazz trumpeters will perform for an illustrious panel of judges, including renowned jazz trumpeters Herb Alpert, Roy Hargrove, Quincy Jones, Hugh Masekela, Clark Terry, and Terence Blanchard, Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.
Following the three finalists, the audience will be treated to a special performance of the winning composition of the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition winner Petros Sakelliou (Greece), sponsored by BMI. The $10,000 Composers Award is presented annually to the young, aspiring composer [...Petros Sakellliou...]who best demonstrates originality, creativity, and excellence in jazz composition. The 2007 Composers Competition is devoted to jazz compositions that feature the trumpet. BMI is one of the world's largest performing rights organizations, representing the works of Thelonious Monk and more than 350,000 composers, songwriters, and music publishers in all genres of music.
The second half of the evening will feature a star-studded Tribute to music legend Herbie Hancock with performances by some of the greatest musical artists of all time, including Sting, Joni Mitchell, Chris Botti, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, George Benson, Nancy Wilson, Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard, Clark Terry, George Duke, Roy Hargrove, and many others. Rickey Minor will serve as Producer and Music Director for the event.
The Competition will be taped as a documentary for Black Entertainment Television and the BET J cable network (formerly BET Jazz). The documentary will include performances by the semifinalists, backstage interviews with the finalists and judges, and footage from the post-Competition reception.
- http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2007/10/1403.html
Petros Sakelliou, Boston University doctoral student in composition, was the winner of the 2007
Thelonious Monk Institute Composition Competition. His Boston-based ensemble, the BandA
ecLectics, which includes six Berklee students and three alumni, flew to Los Angeles to perform
Sakelliou's winning composition. The group's October 28 performance was part of an evening-long
extravaganza at the Kodak Theater, which included a megawatt tribute to Herbie Hancock, with Joni
Mitchell, Sting, and Nancy Wilson, as well as the annual Monk instrumental competition, this year
devoted to trumpet.
The Berklee students are Magda Giannikou, accordion; Godwin Louis, saxophones; Francesco
Marcocci, bass; Stelios Mihas, guitar; Mika Mimura, vibraphone; and Patriq Moody, trumpet. Dave
Cole, drums, Scott Flynn, trombone, and Anastasia Zachariadou, flute, made up the Berklee alumni
cadre. Composer Sakelliou is the group's pianist, and Damion Corideo is the percussionist. - Berklee College of Music
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The tribute is in conjunction with the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition, the most prestigious jazz competition in the world. Three of the finest young jazz talents will perform before a legendary panel of judges including Herb Alpert, Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Quincy Jones, Hugh Masekela, and Clark Terry and compete for a chance to become the winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and a $20,000 scholarship. Following the three finalists, the audience will be treated to a special performance by Petros Sakelliou, winner of the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition, sponsored by BMI. - nojazzfest.com
Petros Sakelliou Wins Thelonious Monk Composition Prize ASCAP member Petros Sakelliou won the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer's Competition grand prize of
$10,000. - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
October 9, 2007
Petros Sakelliou (Greece) wins Composer's Competition
The winner of the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition, sponsored by BMI, is Petros Sakelliou (Greece). - Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Thelonious Monk Composer’s Prize Awarded to Petros Sakelliou
BMI has awarded the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer’s Competition grand prize of $10,000 to Petros Sakelliou of Athens, Greece. The award was presented during the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, held October 28 at the Kodak Theatre. Sakelliou’s winning work, entitled “Swing Along,� was performed by his Boston-based band during the celebration.
photo Pictured (l-r): Monk Institute Executive Director Tom Carter, Chairman Herbie Hancock and BMI's Robbin Ahrold
The Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition is the most prestigious jazz competition in the world, attracting the brightest young jazz talent in the world to compete for a series of scholarships. 2007 marks BMI’s 15-year anniversary of collaboration with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, lauding young composers who best demonstrate originality, creativity and excellence in jazz composition. The composer award is in direct association with the jazz institute’s annual competition of highlighting a featured instrument.
photo BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross and Institute Board Chairman T.S. Monk
This year’s competition was followed by a gala tribute to legendary ten-time Grammy winning BMI jazz composer Herbie Hancock for his incomparable contribution to the music industry. Hancock was treated to an all-star homage with performances by Joni Mitchell, Sting, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, and Nancy Wilson, among others.
photo Recording Academy Chairman Jimmy Jam, BMI Monk Composer's Competition winner Petros Sakelliou, Academy Chief Executive Niel Portnow and BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross. - BMI news
BMI Awards $10,000 To Winner Of The Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer's Competition
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the U.S. performing right organization representing over 350,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers awarded Petros Sakelliou of Athens, Greece, the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer's Competition grand prize of $10,000. The award was presented during the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition held Sunday, October 28 at the Kodak Theatre. Sakelliou's winning work entitled "Swing Along" was performed during the celebration.
The Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition is the most prestigious jazz competition in the world, attracting the brightest young jazz talent in the world to compete for a series of scholarships. 2007 marks BMI's 15-year anniversary of collaboration with the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz, lauding young composers who best demonstrate originality, creativity and excellence in jazz composition. The composer award is in direct association with the jazz institute's annual competition of highlighting a featured instrument.
This year's competition was followed by a gala tribute to legendary ten-time Grammy winning, BMI jazz composer Herbie Hancock, for his incomparable contribution to the music industry. Hancock was treated to an all-star homage with performances by Joni Mitchell, Sting, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Nancy Wilson, and many more. - Music Industry News Network
Thelonious Monk Trumpet Competition and Tribute to Herbie Hancock at the Kodak Theater, October 28th Print E-mail
Contributed by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
Friday, 26 October 2007
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For the first time ever the famed Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition will be held on the West Coast. On October 28th, the 2007 trumpet competition finals and an all-star concert tribute to Herbie Hancock will be the first major jazz event to be held at the renowned Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. With cosponsorship from the Recording Academy/Los Angeles chapter, bettern known as the Grammy organization, ten-time Grammy winner and legendary pianist Herbie Hancock will be honored with an all-star tribute produced by Ricky Minor and featuring Joni Mitchell, Sting, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Nancy Wilson, Wayne Shorter, Chris Botti, George Duke, George Benson, Terence Blanchard and Roy Hargrove. BET will broadcast the concert and competition. Sponsored by Cadillac and GMAC Financial Services, funds raised through the competition and tribute concert will go to support the Monk Institutes’ programs.
Founded in 1986 to honor the iconic pianist and composer, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the next generation of jazz musicians through college and graduate level training with jazz masters, innovative public school initiatives such as Peer to Peer Jazz Education and the National Jazz Curriculum, and through other programs that promote jazz in our schools and communities. Recently, the elite graduate program moved from its base at the University of Southern California to Loyola University in New Orleans as part of the Institute’s “Commitment to New Orleans� initiative. In Los Angeles, the Institute continues to work with 19 public schools as well as its national projects. Held annually since 1987, the Monk International Jazz Competition attracts top talents from around the world to compete for scholarships. Initially a piano competition, since 1990 the program has focused each year on a different instrument (piano, bass, drums, hand drums, saxophone, trumpet, guitar, vocals and trombone). Each year since 1999, Black Entertainment Television and BET Jazz have produced and broadcast a documentary about the competition, featuring performance clips and interviews with the contestants and judges.
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Thelonious Monk
For this year’s trumpet competition, semifinalists will perform before a panel of judges on October 27th at Schoenberg Hall on the UCLA campus. The distinguished judges include Quincy Jones, Herb Alpert, Terence Blanchard, Hugh Masekela, Clark Terry and Roy Hargrove. The top three finalists will again perform on Sunday night, with the winner receiving a $20,000 scholarship, runner-up $10,000 and third place $5000. The semifinalists, announced recently, include Ambrose Akinmusire (California), Maurice Brown (Illinois), Jean Caze (New York), Philip Dizack (New York), Josh Evans (Connecticut), Vitaly Golovnev (Russia), Tobias Kaemmerer (Wisconsin), Nadje Noordhuis (Australia), Michael Rodriguez (Florida), and Charles Porter (Florida).
Among past winners are some of the biggest names in modern jazz—pianists Marcus Roberts and Jacky Terrason, saxophonist Joshua Redman, trumpeter Ryan Kisor, and vocalist Terri Thornton. Other finalists have gone on to distinguished careers as well, including Joey DeFrancesco, Jane Monheit, Tierney Sutton, Eric Alexander and Chris Potter. The 2006 Monk Competition (piano) and gala concert were held in Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center with first place honors going to Tiger Hamasyan of Armenia, with Gerald Clayton and Aaron Parks finishing second and third. Ten years ago, the most recent trumpet competition winner was Darren Barrett, followed by finalists Diego Urcola, Avishai Cohen and Matt Schulman.
The Monk Institute also holds an annual composers competition. The 2007 winner is Petros Sakelliou of Greece. - Jazz Police
October 9, 2007
Petros Sakelliou (Greece) wins Composer's Competition
The winner of the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition, sponsored by BMI, is Petros Sakelliou (Greece). - Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Discography
"Angeles Los Boston", 2007
"Visual Music Circus", 2008
All music composed by Petros Sakelliou
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Bio
The BandA ecLectics were put together in September of 2006, by Greek composer and pianist, Petros Sakelliou. The group consists of crossover musicians beyond the jazz and classical mainstreams, influenced but not bound to world traditions, whether it's brazilian, cuban, argentinian or greek.
The music that Petros composes for the instrumental chamber-jazz ensemble, blurs the boundaries between composition and improvisation merging jazz, world and classical influences into a unique, personal style, a very visual, multi-layered and high energy music.
Following their debut performance at Kodak Theater in 2007, the band has been constantly performing their newly recorded album (Angeles Los Boston), in Boston and New York City. In June 2008, BandA recorded a new album, "Visual Music Circus", yet to be released.
Petros Sakelliou received important critical acclaim in 2007, winning the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz composition competition prize, with the composition, "Swingalong", from his album "Angeles Los Boston".
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