The Brenda Earle Newsletter

NYSMF jazz faculty extraordinaire Brenda Earle has just launched her new e-newsletter! You can sign up for your very own copy at http://www.brendaearle.com, and we will of course also repost her stuff here on the NYSMF blog! Here it is:

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Brenda Earle Newsletter
What Brenda is up to...
February 2007

in this issue :
New and exciting...
Upcoming Dates
New Website!
New York Summer Music Festival

www.brendaearle.com jazz pianist.vocalist.composer.educator www.myspace.com/brendaearle

Welcome to the newsletter! Thanks to Constant Contact, we can now keep you posted on Brenda's "happenings" in a more attractive way!

So far 2007 has been a great! Brenda has been doing shows with Sherrie Maricle's DIVA big band, as well as shows in the NYC area with her trio. Look for the list of upcoming gigs below - perhaps she is coming to a city near you!

Brenda is currently working on new material, which she will be recording later on this year. New songs, new arrangements and some great orchestrations are in the works! She is also working on new music for voices. Stay tuned for samples to be posted on her website and myspace pages!


New and Exciting...
What is Brenda up to?

Brenda is getting ready to go to Seattle with Sherrie Maricle's DIVA big band, to play with the legendary Carmen Bradford and John Pizarelli! See Upcoming Dates for more info...

Writing writing writing new music for the trio, for big band and for voices. Stay tuned to hear clips!

Classical piano lessons? Brenda is back with legendary pianist and educator Sophia Rosoff, who teaches the likes of Fred Hersch and Barry Harris. Currently working on the Beethovan Variations in Cminor, Brahms Rhapsody in Gminor and a couple of Scriabin Etudes. Nothing concertworthy as of yet, but it's getting better.




New Website!
www.brendaearle.com gets a facelift...

We are excited to announce that Brenda's site is currently under construction, to make is a better, more cohesive (and more easily update-able). The new site should be up in the next week or so. Stay tuned...
Special thanks to Dennis Jeter and A Sound Strategy!


Upcoming Dates
Shows in February and March...
Feb. 20th, 2007 8:30-11
Perch Cafe (Brooklyn, NY)
Brenda - vox, Jesse Lewis - guitar, Ike Sturm - bass
www.theperchcafe.com

Feb. 28-March 4th
with DIVA Big Band in Seattle!
Performances with Five Play, DIVA and special guests John Pizarelli and Carmen Bradford.
Brenda - piano
www.divajazz.com

March 12th 8-11:30pm
Bar Next Door (NYC)
Brenda - vox, Jesse Lewis - guitar, Ike Sturm - bass
www.lalanternacaffe.com

March 20th 7pm
Vipassana at the Makor (NYC)
Joe Phillips' incredible work of art!
Brenda - piano
www.numinousmusic.com


March 22-25
BETTY & THE BELRAYS
Theatre for the New City
155 First Avenue (bet 9th and 10th sts.)
Brenda Earle - piano

March 26-27
Vipassana in recording studio
Joe Phillips' incredible work of art!
Brenda - piano
www.numinousmusic.com





New York Summer Music Festival
OUR SECOND SEASON!!!

After our incredible inaugural season, NYSMF is preparing for the 2007 Season. Brenda once again is on faculty, directing the amazing jazz choir, teaching piano, voice and composition and performing with the big band. Jazz choir devotees take note: this year's music is going to be even hotter than last year's!

This year's special guests include Dick Oatts, Chris Rosenberg, John Riley, Sherrie Maricle and Mike Holober.

For those of you who don't know, NYSMF is an amazing Summer Music Festival for musicians of both the jazz and classical persuasion. There are orchestras, wind ensembles, chamber ensembles and jazz large and small ensembles. It is an incredible place and it takes place at SUNY Oneonta in Upstate New York.

www.nysmf.org


BUY CDS!!!!

The critically acclaimed "happening" is available at www.cdbaby.com.

For people who hate to buy stuff online, email me at allsheneeds@hotmail.com and I'll mail one to you when you pay by cheque or money order.

All She Needs (2002) is also available this way.

www.cdbaby.com/cd/brendaearle





I hope you have all enjoyed the first installment of the Brenda Earle newsletter. Don't hesitate to get in touch and tell us what you think! We hope to send out a newsletter every couple of months to announce exciting events and keep you posted!

To contact Brenda allsheneeds@hotmail.com

www.brendaearle.com
www.myspace.com/brendaearle

Visiting Artist Update! BSO's Keisuke Wakao, Oboe

NYSMF is proud to announce another Keisuke within our ranks! Oboist Keisuke Wakao will be joining NYSMF's ranks of Visiting Artists, and he will certainly be surprised when he arrives and finds that everyone knows how to pronounce his name. Here is his biographical information:

Keisuke Wakao is assistant principal oboe with the BSO. He has been principal oboe with the New World Symphony and substitute oboe with the New York Philharmonic. He was soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Joseph Robinson under Kazuyoshi Akiyama and chamber soloist with the New Japan Philharmonic under Seiji Ozawa. In 1990, he performed the Mozart oboe concerto under Michael Tilson Thomas in Europe. Wakao was a finalist in the Lucarelli International Oboe Competition.

Diploma, Manhattan School of Music. Oboe with Joseph Robinson. Studies with Alfred Genovese, Ralph Gomberg at the Tanglewood Music Center. Studies with John Mack, Peter Bowman, and Eric Barr. Recordings on Denon. Also faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and Keisuke Wakao Oboe Camp, Tokyo.

Oboists, rejoice!

UPDATE: Thanks to NYSMF classical bass faculty person Bret Simner for notifying me that I butchered the spelling of "oboist". Bret has been promoted to Chief SpellChecker of NYSMF for his diligence, while I have been slapped around with an old oboe reed for my typo. Thanks Bret!

MSM and NYSMF

Thanks to the Rosenberg Family (Chris, Erika, and Ivan) for their photographs of the New York Summer Music Festival's second annual NYSMF Day at the Manhattan School of Music!

This presentation was made possible by the generosity of the entire Manhattan School of Music, especially Chris Rosenberg, who is not only a king-like bigwig there, he is also one of our unbelievably skilled, dedicated, and accomplished jazz conductors at NYSMF every summer.

Immense thanks, too, to the great members of the NYSMF jazz faculty performing in these shots: Alejandro Aviles and Jason Rigby on sax; Gernot Bernroider on drums; Jesse Lewis on guitar; Brenda Earle on piano; and Bob "Killdozer" Sabin on bass.

Come on over to NYSMF this summer and work one on one with these incredible musicians! You'll be glad you did: you'll become so much more accomplished, polished, and professional as a musician, that you'll return home and blow away your competition. Seriously. That's what happened to me at music camp 25 years ago, and these instructors are even BETTER than mine were!