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Value-Added Benefits
Opportunity to gain national recognition
Experienced Adjudicators That Understand Your Groups
Professional CD Recording of Winning Performances
Written Adjudicator's Comments
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Mark of Excellence
NATIONAL Jazz HONORS PROJECT
2010 Submission Deadline: June 11
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Shelly Berg
Adjudicator
Shelly Berg is the Dean of the University of Miami Frost School of Music, and
previously held the McCoy/Sample professorship of Jazz Studies in the Thornton
School of Music at the University of Southern California. He is a past President of
the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE), and he was the 2003
"Educator of the Year", as named by the Los Angeles Jazz Society. In 2002,
Shelly was the recipient of the IAJE Lawrence Berk Leadership Award. In 2000,
he was named one of three "Educators for the Millennium" by the Los Angeles
Times. He has appeared as a performer and lecturer throughout the United
States as well as in Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, and Israel. Shelly has
numerous compositions for jazz ensemble in publication, and his texts include
The Chop Monster improvisation series and Essentials of Jazz Theory (Alfred
Publishing), and Jazz Improvisation: The Goal-Note Method (Kendor Music).
The All Music Guide says "Shelly Berg is one of the finest pianists around in the
early 21st century playing modern mainstream jazz". Shelly's 2005 CD, Blackbird
(Concord Records) reached #1 in US jazz radio (Jazzweek), and garnered
Record of the Year and Artist of the Year nominations. He was a finalist in the
1988 Great American Jazz Piano Competition. Shelly is known for his
collaborations with jazz vocalists, and he has performed, recorded, and
arranged for Patti Austin, Monica Mancini, Bobby McFerrin, Kurt Elling, Dionne
Warwick, Tierney Sutton, Lorraine Feather, and Carmen Bradford. He maintains a
busy, worldwide schedule of jazz festival and club performances, and he has
performed and/or recorded with a "Who's Who" of jazz legends, including Ray
Brown, Louie Bellson, Eddie Daniels, Peter Erskine, Woody Herman, Clark Terry,
and Bill Watrous to name a few. Dave Brubeck raves, "Shelly Berg is a great jazz
pianist who has a total command of his instrument".
Shelly's composing and orchestrating for television includes ABC's Fudge, CBS's
A League of Their Own, and HBO's Dennis Miller Live. He has orchestrated for
Chicago, KISS, Carole King, Richard Marx, Joe Cocker, Elliott Smith, Lou Rawls,
Steve Miller, and Ray Sings, Basie Swings (Concord Records' Ray Charles and
Count Basie collaboration). Film orchestration work includes Warner Bros. Almost
Heroes and For Your Consideration, Fox's Men of Honor, and the NBC Mini-series
The 60's. He has written for the Royal Philharmonic, the American Symphony,
and orchestras worldwide. Shelly composed the theme song to the 1986 U.S.
Olympic Festival, and orchestrated Japan Concerto, for the 10th anniversary of
the Emperor's coronation. His orchestrations are called "magnificent. . .
incredible" by Johnny Mandel.
"Berg burns hard, his fingers flying over the keyboard while his body nearly levitates off the bench.
Exhilarating . . . filled with breakneck parallel runs, sudden rhythmic shifts and harmonic modulations
that leave the crowd breathless!"
L.A. Times Sunday Magazine
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