District 7 Jazz Festival

Host:George Bradshaw and Sam Roberts
Where: Dover Area High School (map)
When:March 19-20, 2021
Concert: March 20, 2021
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Guest Conductors: Dr. Jeffery Jacobsen- Mansfield University, Steve Fieldhouse- Inspire! School of Music, York, PA, and ​Mitos Andaya Hart- Temple University

• Dr. Jeffery Jacobsen – Biography

  Dr. Jeffery Jacobsen- Mansfield University Dr. Jacobsen is a sought-after conductor and clinician who has been invited to lead orchestras at national and international music festivals and camps. The recipient of the Outstanding Orchestra Conductor Award for 2013 from the Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, he currently serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Mansfield University Symphony Orchestra and for two years was Conductor of the Binghamton (NY) Community Orchestra. He has conducted numerous All-District, All-Region, and All-State Honor Orchestras in the United States and Canada as well as professional orchestras in Europe. Dr. Jacobsen served for five seasons as the Conductor of the Orchestra of the Pines in Nacogdoches/Lufkin, Texas and Director of Orchestral Activities and Opera at Stephen F. Austin State University. He founded and served as Conductor of the Blue Valley Chamber Orchestra, a regional orchestra in the Kansas City area. Jacobsen was affiliated with the Youth Symphony of Kansas City, initially as the Conductor of the Symphonette and later as Conductor of the Philharmonic East Orchestra. He taught in public schools in Boulder, Colorado, Overland Park, Kansas, and Williamsburg, Virginia.

  
  
  

  Dr. Jacobsen's ensembles have performed at state music conventions, and national and international music festivals. These same ensembles consistently earned highest ratings at competitive festivals and, at several, Jacobsen was named outstanding director. He received the Mary Taylor Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching at Boulder High School and was featured twice on the KCNC-TV's "Teachers Who Make a Difference" series. Jacobsen was the Boulder Valley School nominee for the Sallie Mae National Teachers Award, received the Teacher Recognition Award from the University of Kansas, and was named the Outstanding High School Orchestra Director for the Northeast District of the Kansas Music Educators Association.

  
  
  

  Dr. Jacobsen received a Master of Science degree in music education with a secondary emphasis in performance from the University of North Dakota and a Doctorate of Music Education degree with a secondary emphasis in jazz pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado. Jacobsen was selected for the American Symphony Orchestra League Donald Thulean conducting workshop with the Detroit Civic Orchestra. He was invited to the International Conducting Workshop in the Czech Republic and has taken post-doctoral studies in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the universities of Iowa, Illinois State and South Carolina. His instructors include William LaRue Jones, Kirk Trevor, Mariusz Smolij, Kirk Muspratt, Tsung Yeh, and Marvin Rabin. As a professional musician, Dr. Jacobsen has served as principal bassist of numerous ensembles as well as opera companies and symphony orchestras. Jacobsen was most recently Principal Bassist of Millennium Orchestra and a recording artist for Naxos and ERM. He has performed in jazz clubs across the United States as well as overseas, and along with other members of the ensemble, received a Grammy Award nomination for the jazz recording Hot IV.

  
  
  

• Steve Fieldhouse – Biography

  Steve Fieldhouse- Inspire! School of Music, York, PA Steve plays saxophone, clarinet, flute, piano, and electric bass. He has been studying music since age 10. During his high school years, he was chosen for All-State Jazz Ensemble twice, and the National Jazz Ensemble once. While in high school, he studied with local musicians Curt Sipe, Tom Strohman, and Kirk Reese.

  
  
  

  He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music from the University of North Texas. During his time there, he performed in the world renown 2 o’clock jazz ensemble. He was a Downbeat Award winner in the Best College Jazz Band category, won 2nd place in the North American Saxophone Alliance Jazz competition, and won Best College Jazz Small Group at the Wichita Jazz Festival. He was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at North Texas teaching saxophone lessons, saxophone class, reading ensemble, and the 9 o’clock Jazz Ensemble. Steve has been teaching saxophone, clarinet, flute, piano, electric bass, and composition students since 2000. He has had several students qualify for District Band, District Jazz Ensemble, and All-State Jazz Ensemble. Steve was also Assistant Professor of Music at Gettysburg College for 7 years teaching private saxophone lessons, saxophone quartet, private improvisation lessons, and small group jazz ensemble.

  
  
  

• Mitos Andaya Hart – Biography

  Mitos Andaya Hart- Temple University B.M.E. K-12 Certification, University of Northern Colorado M.M. Choral Conducting, University of Kansas D.M.A. Choral Conducting, University of Kansas Mitos Andaya Hart teaches undergraduate conducting, graduate choral literature, assists with graduate conducting, and directs the Temple University Singers. Prior to her appointment at Temple, she served as Associate Director of Choral Activities at the University of Georgia where she directed ensembles in early music, jazz, women’s, chamber, and symphonic chorus repertoire. There she was awarded one of the university’s highest honors, the Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award, and twice received the Student Government Association Award for “Outstanding Commitment to Students and Academic Excellence.” Andaya Hart has taught choral and jazz at the university level in the United States, South Africa, and Australia. She served as guest conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Choir in Amsterdam and Arnhem in 2007; conducted the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir in concert at the Lund International Choral Festival in Sweden; and conducted the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Netherlands Radio Chorus, in Haarlem in 2005. She conducted at the 2005 Transient Glory

  
  
  

  Choral and Chamber Music Festival in New York and worked with Pulitzer Prize winning- composer, David Del Tredici. In 2004, she prepared ensembles for the BBC Philharmonic conductor/Scottish composer, James MacMillan, for his Georgia residency. She was selected to study with Marin Alsop at the Colorado Symphony Orchestra Workshop in 2003, Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival in 2003 and 2004, Simon Halsey and André Thomas in Haarlem, Netherlands in 2005, and Frieder Bernius in Varese, Italy in 2006. Her conducting teachers at the University of Kansas were Simon Carrington and orchestral conductor, Brian Priestman.

  
  
  

  Her ensembles have been invited to perform throughout the United States such as at the Boston Early Music Festival, Southern American Choral Directors Association Conference, and the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival. Her choirs have also traveled and performed in England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal and Spain. She has been a member of the conducting faculty of the Westminster Chamber Choir with Westminster Choir College of Rider University since 2007, and has served as a member of the judges panel for the International A Cappella Festival in Leipzig, Germany. In 2010, she served as clinician and guest conductor for the First Kenyan Choral Directors National Conference hosted by Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. She continues to serve as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor for honor choruses, all-state choirs, and festivals.

  
  
  

  Andaya Hart has Renaissance and other editions published with Alliance Music Publications, and jazz compositions and arrangements with UNC Jazz Press and Hal Leonard. She served as the chair for Jazz Repertoire and Standards for the Georgia American Choral Directors Association, is active in the American Choral Directors Association and International Federation of Choral Music, and currently serves as President-Elect of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO).

  
  
  

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