The alternative rock band Guster has visited Interlochen several times in recent years, and in each visit they have invited a camp musician to perform with them on stage. This year, with their post-camp performance scheduled in September, Guster...
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Among the first graduates of Juilliard’s Jazz Studies Program, trumpeter Dominick Farinacci has won the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition and Japan’s “International New Star Award,” and pianist Aaron...
A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Dennis Wilson began his professional career with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra as trombonist, arranger, and Musical Director. A former Assistant Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at Kansas State...
The high school jazz program is an all-encompassing three-week program where students rehearse, perform and develop improvisational skills. This video offers a glimpse into the life of a high school jazz musician while attending...
Multipurpose venue will house jazz, dance and theatre events
With 250,000 visitors coming to Interlochen each year, an expanding Arts Camp curriculum, and a successful Shakespeare Festival for three years in a row, the need for...
The 2009 Interlochen Presents Summer Arts Festival was a great success. One performance in particular left an everlasting impression on two campers.
On Monday, July 20, minutes before the Steve Miller Band was scheduled to take the stage...
Grammy Award-winning drummer and recording artist Peter Erskine (IAA 71) visited campus this spring to work with students and perform. Erskine worked with Academy percussion students and the jazz band and later performed in Corson Auditorium with...
Forty years after the first official student jazz concert at Interlochen Arts Academy, an all-star ensemble of Interlochen jazz alumni is gathering to celebrate the...
Interlochen, Mich. – Nine Interlochen Arts Academy jazz musicians traveled to Monterey, California to perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival’s fourth annual Next Generation Festival April 3 - 6, 2008.
“This was a fantastic...
