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The Jeff Marx Jazz Award

The Jeff Marx Jazz Award

A direct monetary award to the student. This is a  $1,000 award intended for Jazz Studies Program students who demonstrate financial need and academic excellence. The award is intended to support diversity and equity in the Jazz Studies Program and was created by Todd Weinstein and friends of Jeff Marx. https://jeffmarxmusic.com

We invite you to share in our excitement and we encourage you to participate by helping to bring this important project to fruition. You can donate online now at  https://bardian.bard.edu/register/bcf or send a check, payable to Bard College with “Jeff Marx Award” in the memo, to:
Bard College
ATTN: Sasha Boak-Kelly
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

Larry McLeod Award In Jazz

An award established by the family and friends of Larry McLeod '76 and given annually to a
student, not necessarily a music major, who has done much to keep the sound of Jazz going at
Bard.

Nesuhi Ertegun Scholars in Music
 

Scholarships established in memory of Nesuhi Ertegun, who made a great contribution to
American music and to Jazz in particular, and awarded annually to qualified and deserving
students with a serious interest in music, especially Jazz and Black American music.

The Bethesda Blues & Jazz Youth Orchestra

The Bethesda Blues & Jazz Youth Orchestra

Website: https://www.bbj-youthorchestra.org/

The Bard Jazz Studies Program became affiliated with the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Youth Orchestra in the Fall of 2020 in order to  provide masterclasses and mentoring by our faculty and instructors for the young musicians. We hope to create a pathway for interested members of the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Youth Orchestra to attend Bard and join our program.

The Bethesda Blues and Jazz Youth Orchestra’s mission is to provide an educational environment and opportunity for young musicians to experience and perform Jazz music.

Bethesda Blues and Jazz Youth Orchestra (BBJYO) was created as a partnership between Bethesda Blues and Jazz Foundation, and Jazz Encounters in April, 2017. BBJYO rehearses in the historical Bethesda Theatre. The Bethesda Theatre was built in 1938 as an art deco movie theater. It is now registered as a national historic site. Home to Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, the space is a 500 seat live music venue.

BBJYO comprises 20 brilliant musicians from the ages of 11-17.  Our students  have the opportunity to play with some of the greatest Jazz players and Jazz bands performing today. 
 
Since its founding in 2017, the group has performed with the Grammy award winning Bassist Ben Williams (Downbeat 2017 Critics Poll Winner, Bass), the Grammy nominated Count Basie Orchestra, the award winning vibraphonist Warren Wolf (Downbeat 2017 Critics Poll Winner, Vibraphone), the Grammy nominated Jazz vocalist Freddy Cole, a award winning pianist Sullivan Fortner (Downbeat 2019 Critics Poll Winner, Rising Star Piano), and award winning trumpeter Sean Jones. 
 
The BBJYO rehearses in the historic Bethesda Theatre under the direction of trumpeter and music educator, Kenny Rittenhouse, and pianist and music educator, Bob Murad.

The Bard Prison Initiative

Website: https://bpi.bard.edu/

The Bard Prison Initiative extends the full breadth and depth of the Bard College liberal arts curriculum into six New York State prisons. Its story is told in the Emmy nominated four part PBS documentary College Behind Bars.

Bard Jazz students have performed at Eastern Correctional, Woodbourne Correctional and Coxsackie Correctional  Facilities. 

Applying to the Program

  • How to Apply
    To apply to the undergraduate Bard Music Program, apply through the Bard Admission Office. Applying to the Bard Conservatory of Music requires a separate application to the Conservatory.
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