AAD Alum Launches Seattle JazzEd

Laurie deKoch, a 1996 graduate of the Arts and Administration program, has launched her own non-profit arts organization Seattle JazzED. Seattle JazzED provides jazz band ensemble instruction to students all over the Seattle region, with a particular focus on underserved communities where music education is lacking.  In its first year, Seattle JazzED has 60 children in 3 ensembles.  Recent press on Seattle JazzED can be found at:

http://www.kplunews.org/post/jazz-program-hopes-strike-chord-seattle-kids

http://crosscut.com/2010/12/13/education/20445/New-jazz-group-matches-budding-musicians-with-legendary-teachers/?utm_source=Crosscut+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=55aa8c5e60-Crosscut_E_mail_12_13_201012_13_2010&utm_medium=email

About her education in the Arts and Administration Program, Laurie says “I just wanted to … let you know how much I appreciated my graduate education.  Since moving to Seattle in 1996, I have continuously worked in the performing arts and owe so much of what I have accomplished to what I learned at UO.


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Culture and Class

I continue to think about how I could  have been more facilitative of an explicit  discussion of “class” as related to art, culture, and society. In that regard, Counterpoint the British Council’s think tank, has just issued Culture and Class by John Holden. In the preface to the report, Holden, The director of Counterpoint, that […]

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