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Thursday, July 31, 2025
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2025 Jazz Power Institute for Artists and Educators
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Music Building, MU-330 Hearth Room
Audience: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate Students, Prospective Students, Staff, Students, Transfer Students, Visitors
Admission: The event is free but please register via the link.
Tickets: Click here
Contact Organizer
Alexandra Mandell; Arlene Rodriguez
718-960-8247 alexandra@jazzpower.org, arlene@jazzpower.orgJazz Power Institute is the professional training branch of Jazz Power Initiative for artists and educators interested in teaching jazz in a culturally authentic way through multiple modalities of music, dance, theatre, and writing. Attendees experience workshops covering a wide range of age groups from grades preK-12, to college students and adult learners. The Institute is held each summer at Lehman College in the Bronx, the week after July 4th. Registration is available in the spring prior to the Institute.
Participants from a wide range of experience in the field are welcome, including college students who are relatively new to teaching artist work, as well as educators and artists with a decade of experience or more. Jazz Power Institute provides a safe and challenging learning environment, where breakthroughs are made in understanding the jazz arts in a more comprehensive, personally relevant and engaging way.
The Institute is produced by Jazz Power Initiative, the uptown NYC based non profit organization and was started by a core team of dance scholar, choreographer and producer, Shireen Dickson, guitarist, author and music professor Tom Dempsey, Jazz Power Initiative co-founder, author and educator, Clifford Carlson, and jazz musician, educator, Jazz Power Initiative co-founder, managing and artistic director, Dr. Eli Yamin. To date, Jazz Power Institute has brought together over 180 artists and educators providing CTLE credit to DOE teachers and certificates of completion to independent artists interested in teaching jazz across disciplines of music, theatre, dance and writing. Guest faculty include the award winning author James McBride, Sweet Honey In the Rock co-founders, Carol Maillard and Louise Robinson, and choreographer Mercedes Ellington. The Institute is currently offered at no cost to participants thanks to the support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts and Lehman College Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre, and Dance.
For more about the Jazz Power Initiative, please click here