Registration Now Open For 12th ANNUAL SARAH VAUGHAN INTERNATIONAL JAZZ COMPETITION
The Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, also known as “The SASSY Awards”, is open to singers over the age of 18, of all genders and nationalities, from anywhere in the world, and not signed by a major label. Entrants are judged on vocal quality, musicality, technique, performance, individuality, artistic interpretation, and ability to swing.
Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition Comes to NJPAC This Weekend
A world of jazz just minutes from home, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) hosts the 11th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition this Sunday, November 20, 2022. Pulled from over 200 submissions from over 25 countries, a handful of gifted young contestants from around the world representing the next generation of great jazz singers will compete on the NJPAC stage.
The 10th Annual TD James Moody Festival Announced at NJPAC
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center celebrates the 10th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival showcasing an all-star lineup of the country's best musicians, held Nov 5-21, including the award-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra, the New Jersey premiere of Christian McBride's The Movement Revisited, the Tony Award-winning Lillias White (currently on Broadway in Chicago), a special tribute concert to George Wein.
Guest Blog: Opera Star Kim Begley Talks Joining Forces On 'King Lear'
The celebrated tenor Kim Begley made his Royal Opera House debut in 1983 and has since then established himself at the forefront of the repertoire, with credits ranging from Britten to Busoni, Wagner to Brett Dean's opera of Hamlet. In keeping wih Shakespeare, if not this time round with singing, Begley has joined a starry lineup of British opera world names to perform King Lear later this month at the Grange Festival for three performances - and we're talking the play in its full, unadultered majesty and not the opera, with Sit John Tomlinson as Lear, Thomas Allen as Gloucester, and Begley as the Fool, and many other notable names besides. As it happens, Begley cut his teeth as a performer some years back with the Royal Shakespeare Company and explains this return to his classical roots below.