Mercer County Community College And Trenton Children's Chorus To Host Summer Jazz Institute For Students

Mercer County Community College (MCCC) and the Trenton Children's Chorus (TCC) will host the 2018 Summer Jazz Institute, a master class for high school and college music students. The week-long instrumental and voice program, will be held Monday, July 30, to Friday, August 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at MCCC's James Kerney Campus at 102 North Broad Street, Trenton.

The distinguished faculty who will lead the program include Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin of Princeton University, MCCC's Scot Hornick and Jim Holton, and Dr. Rochelle Ellis, TCC Music Director and faculty member at Westminster Choir College. Guest artist: Terell Stafford, jazz trumpet and educator.

The master-level program will be comprised of immersive small-group voice and instrumental classes in the morning, and performance preparation and jam sessions in the afternoons. Students will learn jazz theory, improvisation, ear training, and ensemble playing. The program will culminate in a final concert on the evening of the last day of the Institute. Students will present a public performance on the final day. TCC and MCCCC plan to expand the Institute each year, adding other genres of music over a multi-week-long program.

The cost is $150 for the week. For more information call TCC at 609-278-0822 or MCCCC at 609-570-3716. Register at www.trentonchildrenschorus.org.

Internationally recognized as one of the leading pedagogues in gospel and soul voice training, Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin specializes in vocal pedagogy and performance practices for contemporary commercial music styles including jazz, pop, gospel, R&B, country, rock, music-theater, etc.). She teaches vocal jazz performance at Princeton University.

Scot Hornick, double and electric bassist, has studied and performed with many great musicians. Live performances have taken him all over North and Central America, as well as Europe and Scandinavia. He teaches at Mercer County Community College.

Pianist, cellist, composer, arranger and educator, Jim Holton has performed extensively in the Philadelphia, Delaware, New Jersey and New York areas with many groups that include critically-acclaimed Rhythm & Brass, Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band, and Joe Suddler's Swing Machine who back artists such as Jon Faddis, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, and Al Grey. Holton is on the MCCC faculty as instructor of piano and cello.

Dr. Rochelle Ellis, Music Director, Chorale Director, and TCHS/TCC Choir Director, is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and Lecturer of voice at Princeton University. She has a distinguished herself in a broad repertoire that extends from Bach and Beethoven to Verdi, Barber and Gershwin.

Guest Artist: Terell Stanford, acclaimed trumpet player, has been hailed as "one of the greatest players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player" by jazz piano legend McCoy Tyner. Since the mid-1990's, Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson's Sextet, McCoy Tyner's Sextet, Kenny Barron Quintet, Frank Wess Quintet, Jimmy Heath Quintet and Big Band, Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band. Stafford is a member of the Grammy Award winning Vanguard jazz Orchestra. He is the director of Jazz Studies and Chair of Instrumental Studies at Temple University.

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