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Speakers

Bob Mintzer

Featured Artist

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Panelist

Theo Bleckmann

Panelist

Dave Stamps

ISJAC VP of Operations

John La Barbera

Panelist

Chuck Owen

ISJAC President

Maria Mendes

Panelist

Kelsey Shiba

ISJAC Operations Manager

Ayn Inserto

Panelist

John Clayton

Moderator

John Beasley

Panelist

Miho Hazama

Panelist

JC Sanford

Moderator

Cassio Vianna

ISJAC Hall of Fame Curator

Ellen Rowe

Panelist

Ryan Truesdell

Moderator

Christine Jensen

Panelist

Rufus Reid

Moderator

Kim Richmond

Panelist

Darcy James Argue

Panelist

Ray Seol

Session Panelist

John Hollenbeck

Panelist

Terri Lyne Carrington

Moderator

Courtney Wright

2021 Prize for Emerging Black Composers Winner

Joseph Borsellino III

2021 Prize for Emerging Black Composers Winner

Eri Chichibu

2020 Owen Prize in Jazz Composition Winner

Robert Buonaspina

2021 Owen Prize in Jazz Composition Winner

Richard DeRosa

Panelist

Jason Camelio

Session Panelist

katherine mcgarry

Panelist

Jim Odgren

Sessions Panelist

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International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers (ISJAC)

ISJAC strives: 1) to unite and serve the international community of jazz arrangers and composers 2) to advance the understanding and appreciation of jazz composition 3) to stimulate the creation, performance, and dissemination of new works and research

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University of Texas at Austin

Sponsor and Host of 2022 Jazz Composers' Symposium

Jason Camelio, Ray Seol, and Jim Odgren

Online Music Performance in the (Post) Pandemic

Darcy James Argue

Collaboration w/ Cécile McLorin Salvant

John Beasley

Collaboration w/ Maria Mendes

Theo Bleckmann

Collaboration w/ John Hollenbeck and Kate McGarry

Rich DeRosa

Celebrating Bill Holman

Miho Hazama

Women Jazz Composers: Empowering Equal Voices in the Large Ensemble Landscape

John Hollenbeck

Collaboration w/ Kate McGarry and Theo Bleckmann

Ayn Inserto

Women Jazz Composers: Empowering Equal Voices in the Large Ensemble Landscape

Christine Jensen

Women Jazz Composers: Empowering Equal Voices in the Large Ensemble Landscape

John La Barbera

Celebrating Bill Holman

Kate McGarry

Collaboration w/ John Hollenbeck and Theo Bleckmann

Maria Mendes

Collaboration w/ John Beasley

Bob Mintzer

w/ WDR Big Band

Kim Richmond

Celebrating Bill Holman

Ellen Rowe

Women Jazz Composers: Empowering Equal Voices in the Large Ensemble Landscape

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Collaboration w/ Darcy James Argue

WDR Big Band

w/ Bob Mintzer and ISJAC Prize Performances

Sam Blakeslee

Another Day In Which To Excel

Joseph Borsellino

2021 Prize for Emerging Black Composers Winner

Robert Buonaspina

2021 Owen Prize in Jazz Composition Winner

Eri Chichibu

2020 Owen Prize in Jazz Composition Winner

Remy Le Boeuf

Please Scream Inside Your Heart

Nikki Iles

The Caged Bird

Jonathan Saraga

New Beginnings: Part 1 (Destinations)

Courtney Wright

2021 Prize for Emerging Black Composers Winner

Christopher Zuar

Communion: A Selection from Tonal Conversations

Sebastian Bailey

Someday, Yes, Someday! Discussion starter re arranging standards for 4 horns and RS

David Binkley

Three short jazz tunes: Before Spring, Before Summer, and Summer's Here

David Bode

Reimagining 90s Rock for Big Band

Benjamin Boone

Poetry and Jazz

Robert Buonaspina & Eliana Fishbeyn

Jimside the Score: A Foray into the Lesser-Known Works of Jim McNeely

Eri Chichibu

A New Art Experience: Jazz Ensemble + Field Recording

Philippe Côté

Twisting Ways - Collaboration in Composition

Brian DiBlassio

Suite in F - Jazz through the lens of 17th Century French dances

Bruce Dudley

25 Piano Etudes in Idiomatic Styles

Steven Feifke

Lead Sheet to Large Ensemble

Gregg Gelb

In My Pocket

Ned Paul Ginsburg

The Composer/Orchestrator Collaboration

Lenora Helm Hammonds

The Gender Imperative in Jazz: A Look at the Role of Intercultural Competencies in Jazz Composition

Daniel Henderson

Songs From the News: A New YouTube Song Cycle for One-Man Band

Joseph Herbst

Is this my fault? (from This is Our Environment)

Tom Johnson

What to do When COVID Cancels the Recording Session You’ve Been Planning for 40 Years

Nikki Iles

Wild Oak inspired by Geri Allen

Darrell Katz

A Wallflower in the Amazon: Collective Improvisation for the Large Jazz Ensemble

Joey Kendrick

Jazz & Minimalism: Kindred Spirits

Bryan Kennard

Contemporary Approaches to Writing Chamber Jazz

Ellen Kirkwood

[A]part: A joining of contemporary big band music and activism

Gabriela Martina

A Journey Through The Inside - Another Day During the Pandemic

Remy Le Boeuf

Honeymooners

Adolfo Mendonça

Musical comparisons between jazz and choro

Ryan Middagh

Arranging for Guest Soloist and Educational Large Jazz Ensemble

John Mills

Beyond a Shadow

Derek James Molacek

Surrender the Darkness

Carolina Calvache Narvaez

Childhood Retreat: Poetry and Ravel's Inspiration

Jovino Santos Neto

Exploring the Musical Universe of Hermeto Pascoal

Benjamin Nichols

Apt. #1

Craig Peaslee

Second City Strut

Ed Puddick

Ed Puddick with the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra

Zach Rich

Let Me Clarify

Dave Rivello

Focus on Bob Brookmeyer: Composer, Teacher, Friend

Scott Routenberg

[INSIDE]" A Pandemic-Inspired Nu Jazz Album

Erica Seguine

Transforming the visceral experience of mental illness into music: "...And the Tire Swing Keeps Spinning..."

George F. Spicka

Improvisation: Uniting New Jazz and Modern Classical Music via Stream-of-Consciousness

Brian Stark

Finding Flamenco in Sketches of Spain: First Steps

Tonatiuh Vazquez

Suite "La Mexicana": Suite for Harp and Big Band

Quentin Walston

“Les Contes d’Hoffmann” a Suite for Sextet

Arthur White

Prayer of St. Francis: a contemporary song cycle