Jazz at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Announces National Open Call and Initiatives

Jazz at Dr. Phillips Center Orchestra announces new initiatives to solidify the state-of-the-art performing arts center's presence within the global jazz community. The initatives include, ntroduction of year-long jazz initiatives for early childhood through high school students, national open call audition announcement for the Jazz at Dr. Phillips Center Orchestra, and unprecedented collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center and Wynton Marsalis' gift of charts

Monday, January 30, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. arrival, program begins promptly at 10 a.m., Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Speakers to include: Mayor Dyer, City of Orlando

Kathy Ramsberger, President & CEO, Dr. Phillips Center

Joyce and Judson Green, Major Donors of Dr. Phillips Center

Greg Scholl, Executive Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Rodney Whitaker, Music Director, Jazz at Dr. Phillips Center Orchestra

Photography, videography and interviews available following announcements.

About the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization operating the state-of-the-art performing arts center in downtown Orlando, Florida. With its opening in November 2014, the performing arts center launched its vision of Arts for Every Life by being a gathering place for creativity and discovery; a vibrant urban destination where artists, audiences and students come to experience, explore and learn. The two-block community destination features the 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater, 300-seat Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Seneff Arts Plaza, Dr. Phillips Center Florida Hospital School of the Arts, the DeVos Family Room, and other event rental spaces.

Future expansion includes Steinmetz Hall, a 1,700-seat acoustical theater, along with rehearsal, classroom, office space and commercial development spaces. The Dr. Phillips Center is a private non-profit collaborating with the City of Orlando, Orange County, the State of Florida and generous donors.