CCM/CPS Jazz Academy

• Dates: June 12-16
• Directors: Isidore Rudnick, Fine Arts Curriculum Manager, Cincinnati Public Schools and Eric Lechliter, CCM Prep Youth Jazz Orchestra director
• Tuition: $180
• Audition: Not required

The CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy offers an outstanding experience to study jazz performance with professional musicians and other students in a friendly and encouraging environment. Daily classes will include jazz ensembles, jazz history, jazz theory, jazz improvisation as well as jazz arranging and college audition preparation for high school students.

The faculty includes leading jazz performers and jazz educators from CCM, CPS and the Greater Cincinnati region. The week concludes with a performance by all student groups.

A completed and submitted registration form by the deadline is required; deadline is March 1.  No audition is necessary but space is limited so get your registration in as soon as possible.  

Participants need at least one year of experience performing on an instrument. Eligible registrants should be entering grades 5 through 12 in Fall 2023.

NOTE: Cincinnati Public Schools students must register through a separate online form. Please contact ccmprep@uc.edu if you have not yet received the CPS form.

Directors: Isidore Rudnick, Fine Arts Curriculum Manager, Cincinnati Public Schools and Eric Lechliter, CCM Prep Youth Jazz Orchestra director

Note: Images taken during previous CCM Prep Summer Workshops.