About the Jazz Lab Summer Intensive for Adults

On your way home from work? Come jam!

This invigorating summer session is open to experienced string, woodwind, brass, piano and drum/percussion players – and vocalists – who are looking to expand their jazz knowledge and improvisational skills. Taught by Brooklyn-based jazz legends and multi-instrumental performing artists Peter Apfelbaum and Matt Pavolka, students hone these skills and refine their knowledge of chord progressions and rhythms core to classic jazz repertoire, blues forms and standards from the Great American Songbook. The weeklong intensive culminates in a public performance at the BKCM Concert Hall.

The Summer Intensive is open by audition to students who have prior experience with the piano, bass, guitar, horns, strings or voice. No experience in Jazz is required. Please note that this is an intensive program, and we ask that students commit to attending all five evenings of the session!