Our Schedule - Summer Summit

Each day, we have a fantastic variety of situations that get you playing, improving on your instrument, and get you inspired like never before. We have years of experience balancing the schedule with breaks and learning!

Monday – July 28th

7:00 – 10:00pm

OPENING CONCERT (3D Trio & Guests) – Join the JazzWire Quartet (Amy Bormet, Amy Shook, Jeff Antoniuk, and Sherrie Maricle) and special guests for our 22nd annual Opening Concert for the JazzWire Summer Summit. The Takoma Station Tavern is one of DC’s premier jazz spots, and a place for us to all meet, eat, drink and be merry. Your ticket is included in your tuition, and guest can purchase tickets from the website here.
Takoma Station Tavern
6914 4th St NW
Washington, DC 20012

Tuesday – July 29th

*9:00 – 10:00am*	Sign-in & Set Up – Arrive at the facility, sign in at the front, and set up in your band-room, and meet your bandmates!
10:00 – 10:15am	Welcome Meeting – Jeff will introduce the staff & faculty, our Summit plans this year, and provide all of the information you’ll need to get around! (Jeff Antoniuk)
10:15 – 12:00pm	Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. This is the core of the camp! Your faculty leader will give you improvisation ideas, play with you, and let you try things out in real time, working from the Summit songs!
*12:00 – 12:15pm*	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat.
*12:15 – 12:30pm*	Faculty Concert! – All 10 faculty members will perform two songs while lunch is being set-up, highlighting ideas and songs discussed this morning.
12:30 – 1:30pm	Lunch with Faculty – A box lunch will be provided for you
*1:30 – 2:30pm*	Instrument Specific Masterclass – A class specific to your instrument – saxophone, trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, and drums.
2:30 – 3:00pm	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat. Think ahead about your Electives.
3:00 – 3:50pm	Elective Classes (Choose ONE of three classes to attend): –Hemiola Your Way to Hip (Sherrie Maricle) More notes and better notes isn’t always the path to playing a better solo. In this class, we’ll learn how to add layers of musical interest and hipness to the simplest of phrases. Our tool? The magic of metric illusion. (Novice/Intermediate) –Conduction (Amy Bormet) One of the biggest challenges when playing in a jazz small group isn’t the music or our instruments. It is communicating with each other and staying out of the weeds. In this important class from Amy Bormet, we learn to use our body language and non-verbal cues to communicate with our bandmates. (all levels) –Complete your Masterpiece: How to End Tunes (Amy Shook) The last thing we hear in a great performance is the ending, and if the ending is a mess, it’s probablty not a great performance! Amy Shook walks us through some of the most classic/stock endings that we all need to know, no matter what instrument we play. (Int/Adv)
4:00 – 5:30pm	Combo/Improv Group – Revisit the morning group and repertoire, armed with the new material from the afternoon classes
5:45 – 7:00pm	OPEN JAM SESSION – Join us for THREE jam sessions at our workshop location, starting just after classes end for the day. We’ll have the novice jam in The Music Room (upstairs), the intermediate jam in Fellowship Hall (upstairs), and the advanced jam downstairs in Room 105/106. These are very loose designations, so just please feel free to bounce around between all three!

Wednesday – July 30th

10:00 – 12:00pm	Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. This is the core of the camp! Your faculty leader will give you improvisation ideas, play with you, and let you try things out in real time, working from the Summit songs!
*12:00 – 12:15pm*	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat.
*12:15 – 12:30pm*	Faculty Concert! – All 10 faculty members will perform two songs while lunch is being set-up, highlighting ideas and songs discussed this morning.
12:30 – 1:30pm	Lunch with Faculty – A box lunch will be provided for you
*1:30 – 2:30pm*	Whole Camp Masterclass – Jazz and New-Soul master vocalist Alison Crockett takes us on a journey through groove and history, movement and sound to help us get better connected to the music
2:30 – 3:00pm	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat. Think ahead about your Electives.
3:00 – 3:50pm	Elective Classes (Choose ONE of three classes to attend): –Spatial Awareness (Brent Birckhead) Learn to enhance your solo performance by focusing on the strategic use of space. By exercising restraint and using active listening, we’ll learn to create more impactful solos that captivate our audiences and ensure our contributions are both responsive and resonant. (All Levels) –Question and Answer Improv (Frank Russo) Learn how easy it is to turn simple phrases into four measures, eight, and even longer solos. The concept introduced in this class will help you to develop language you already know into solos that will be easy to play and easy for listeners to follow. (All Levels) –Candezas – How & Why (Jeff Antoniuk & James Moore) Cadenzas, those “all by yourself” moments typically at the end of a ballad can be a mystery. What harmonic or melodic ideas do we use, and how do we practice them? These unscripted moments rarely get discussed, so let’s begin a conversation on this topic and find out how fun and practical this all can be. (Int/Adv)
4:00 – 5:30pm	Combo/Improv Group – Revisit the morning group and repertoire, armed with the new material from the afternoon classes
5:45 – 7:00pm	OPEN JAM SESSION! – Join us for THREE jam sessions at our workshop location, starting just after classes end for the day. We’ll have the novice jam in The Music Room (upstairs), the intermediate jam in Fellowship Hall (upstairs), and the advanced jam downstairs in Room 105/106. These are very loose designations, so just please feel free to bounce around between all three!

Thursday – July 31st

10:00 – 12:00pm	Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. This is the core of the camp! Your faculty leader will give you improvisation ideas, play with you, and let you try things out in real time, working from the Summit songs!
*12:00 – 12:15pm*	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat.
*12:15 – 12:30pm*	Faculty Concert! – All 10 faculty members will perform two songs while lunch is being set-up, highlighting ideas and songs discussed this morning.
12:30 – 1:30pm	Lunch with Faculty – A box lunch will be provided for you
*1:30 – 2:30pm*	Instrument Specific Masterclass – A class specific to your instrument – saxophone, trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, and drums.
2:30 – 3:00pm	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat. Think ahead about your Electives.
3:00 – 3:50pm	Elective Classes (Choose ONE of three classes to attend): –Samba, Bossa Nova, and Partido Alto (Leo Lucini) Join Brazilian music master Leo Lucini as he answers the age old question: what is the difference between samba and bossa nova?! Leo will cover the basic patterns of Samba, Bossa Nova, and Partido Alto and more. This class is great for all instruments. (all levels) –Compelling Rhythms (Steve Herberman) Soloing and composing music is more than just organizing notes and pitches and chords. The universe of Rhythm is huge, and often relatively unexplored. Join Steve Herberman for a survey of go-to solo and compositional rhythms that never miss in their appeal with listeners. (all levels) –Complete your Masterpiece: How to End Tunes (Amy Shook) The last thing we hear in a great performance is the ending, and if the ending is a mess, it’s probablty not a great performance! Amy Shook walks us through some of the most classic/stock endings that we all need to know, no matter what instrument we play. (Int/Adv)
4:00 – 5:30pm	Combo/Improv Group – Revisit the morning group and repertoire, armed with the new material from the afternoon classes
7:00PM – 9:30PM	JAM WITH FACULTY! – Join us at the Bethesdan Hotel for our third jam session of the workshop. It’s a rollicking good time with the faculty, your friends and peers from the workshop, and YOU. Listen and/or play, eat and/or drink, and invite local friends to come listen. *NO COVER. The Bethesdan Hotel, 8120 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda MD.*

Friday – August 1st

10:00 – 12:00pm	Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. This is the core of the camp! Your faculty leader will give you improvisation ideas, play with you, and let you try things out in real time, working from the Summit songs!
*12:00 – 12:15pm*	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat.
*12:15 – 12:30pm*	Faculty Concert! – All 10 faculty members will perform two songs while lunch is being set-up, highlighting ideas and songs discussed this morning.
12:30 – 1:30pm	Lunch with Faculty – A box lunch will be provided for you
*1:30 – 2:30pm*	Faculty Game Show – Get to know the faculty better, stump them with questions and have a bunch of fun doing it, all in a competitive, high stakes game show setting. Your questions will be the fuel we add to the fire. As a note, the goal is actually to learn something about music too!
2:30 – 3:00pm	COFFEE BREAK! – We will have coffee, water, and tea prepared for you in main room! Take a rest and grab a seat. Think ahead about your Electives.
3:00 – 3:50pm	Elective Classes (Choose ONE of three classes to attend): –Hemiola Your Way to Hip (Sherrie Maricle) More notes and better notes isn’t always the path to playing a better solo. In this class, we’ll learn how to add layers of musical interest and hipness to the simplest of phrases. Our tool? The magic of metric illusion. (Novice/Intermediate) –Samba, Bossa Nova, and Partido Alto (Leo Lucini) Join Brazilian music master Leo Lucini as he answers the age old question: what is the difference between samba and bossa nova?! Leo will cover the basic patterns of Samba, Bossa Nova, and Partido Alto and more. This class is great for all instruments. (all levels) –Performing Live – Stage Presence 101 (Greg Boyer) Whether we like it or not, audiences “hear with their eyes.” This class will provide us with some important tips on being engaging on stage, taught by someone who has performed on the biggest stages in the world. We want to sound good, but we also want to communicate well! (All Levels)
4:00 – 5:30pm	Combo/Improv Group – Revisit the morning group and repertoire, armed with the new material from the afternoon classes
7:00 – 9:00pm	FACULTY CONCERT! – Come check out the Summer Summit faculty in their much anticipated yearly concert at The Bethesdan Hotel. Grab dinner and a drink, and share the good vibes with your 10 mentors and faculty friends up on stage. *NO COVER. The Bethesdan Hotel, 8120 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda MD.*

Saturday – August 2nd

10:00 – 11:30am	Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. Rehearse music that you will play this evening with your band at the 5:30PM JazzWire Summer Summit Concert.
*11:30 – 12:30pm*	Small Brunch with Faculty – Today we have an earlier and light brunch. More food option in the later afternoon!
12:30 – 1:30pm	Instrument Specific Masterclass – A class specific to your instrument – saxophone, trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, and drums.
12:45- 1:00pm	Special Concert! – Jeff’s “Saturday Audition Group” from Jazz Band Masterclass!
1:30 – 3:00pm	Combo/Improv Group – FINAL REHEARSAL!
3:00pm – 5:00pm	Food Truck & Load out – We have booked a great food truck to be on site (bring your credit card) so you can grab an early dinner or a coffee. During this time, you will also move your belongings & instruments out of your rehearsal room. Use this time to relax, practice a bit, and grab a quick bite. View the menu in advance here.
5:30 – 8:30PM	FINAL CONCERT – The legendary JazzWire Summer Summit Final Concert, featuring YOU and all the participants from the workshop. Have your friends and family attend this memorable evening and culmination of 5+ days of your hard work. Tickets are available at the door for $25. (Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Rd, Rockville, MD 20852)