Wynton Marsalis, noted jazz trumpeter, jazz composer and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will also become director of jazz studies at the Juilliard School beginning July 1, 2014.
The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) made the joint announcement on October 28.
Juilliard and JALC announced a revitalized collaboration, as well. Juilliard jazz students will have increased access to JALC's education programs, concert opportunities and audience development projects. Students will also have opportunities to develop insights into managing their own careers by participating in JALC's social media, digital marketing and webcasting initiatives.
"This partnership helps to further Jazz at Lincoln Center's educational mission of utilizing the innovations of jazz as a foundation for a new type of pedagogy," Marsalis said. "We embrace the opportunity to carry forward the legacy of success of Juilliard jazz. We are excited about preparing students to develop a holistic understanding of the world we live in through the prism of jazz, as well as give them the tools to participate in shaping the world to come."
Marsalis, himself, is a Juilliard alum.
Apropos, Julliard president Joseph W. Polisi said, "We are especially pleased that a pre-eminent artist such as Wynton Marsalis is returning to his alma mater, in a shared quest for educational excellence."
Polisi continued: "I know that Wynton's leadership will achieve a new level of exceptional artistic accomplishment in the Juilliard jazz program, and that our collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center will prove a unique and effective way to incorporate a leading arts institution into the academic life of performing artists."
Jazz at Juilliard has been associated with Jazz at Lincolon Center since the program's founding in 2001. It started as a pre-professional two-year program, created in collaboration with JALC and organized with considerable input from Marsalis.
Julliard's jazz studies program currently offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Wynton Marsalis was the first jazz musician to receive the Pulitzer Prize in music, for his 1997 jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields, commissioned by JALC. In 2006, adding to his many awards and laurels, Juilliard conferred upon Marsalis an honorary doctor of music degree.
His brand new work for JALC forces--as controversial as it is, indeed--is Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration.
