Saxophonist, composer and educator, Tia Fuller will appear at Bloomfield College on Monday evening, March 27th, coincidentally also the night of her birthday, at 8:00 PM in the Van Fossan Theatre, as part of the Westminster Arts Center's JazzTalks series; an array of intimate evenings of conversation and performance with artists on their life and music. This series is designed to both inform and entertain, giving the audience greater insight into the humanity of the artist, and a greater appreciation for the jazz art form.
Fuller, a teacher at the Jazz Institute of New Jersey, comes from a well-known musical family, Fuller Sound, where she began her music education in piano and flute at the early age of three. She studied saxophone with Joe Jennings and received her bachelor of arts in Music from Spellman College, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She also received a masters degree in Jazz Pedagogy and Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. This year, Fuller will be serving a six-week term as artist in residence at New Mexico State University (2006), where she will tour with a nonet and clinic local schools and colleges.
Fuller has studied with music greats Wessell Anderson, Javon Jackson and Jesse Davi. She has also performed with numerous jazz luminaries including, Ed Thigpen, Mikey Roker, Charles Fambrough, Tony Reedus, John Swanna, Benny Powell, Joe Ford and Ndugu Chancellor, and with such big bands as the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Gerald Wilson Big Band, Charlie Persip Big Band, DIVA Jazz Orchestra and a featured artist with Don Byron in Stravinsky's “Ebony Concerto."
Fuller has been a featured artist in Jazz Improv Magazine “Saxophone Edition" (2004-2005), New York's All About Jazz Magazine and Hot House. Other honors include her performances at the Detroit Jazz Festival, Jazz Fest Vien (Vienna, Austria) and the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival. Fuller was the winner of the 1999 IAJE's Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition, a winner of Vail Jazz Party's Young Talent All-Stars, featured in a DOWNBEAT article for Up and Coming Musicians and chosen as TA/ Clinician for IAJE's Sister's in Jazz Quintet (2000).
Over the past several years Fuller has taught ensembles, master classes and lectures at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Duquesne University (lecture), Kansas State University (lecture), University of Colorado at Boulder Jazz Camp, University of Denver's “Colorado Jazz Workshop," and performed a week-long residency at Miami-Dade Community College where she served as a clinician/guest artist in local middle school, high school and college ensembles. Fuller was also selected as a guest artist/clinician at Ohio State University's “Women in Jazz" Symposium, a clinician at the International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention (IAJE) and at Purchase College.
“Tia Fuller is one of a select number of bright young jazz stars on the scene today," says David Rosenak, Westminster Arts Center Artistic Director. “She also joins a long tradition of African American women who have advanced the jazz saxophone. I look forward to our conversation with Tia, and to celebrating her birthday on March 27th.
The Monday night JazzTalks series will continue with jazz drummer/composer Cecil Brooks III on April 10th. All programs take place at 8:00 PM in the Van Fossan Theatre.
Tickets for JazzTalks are $15 for General Admission, $5 Students and Seniors, and FREE for BC students, faculty and staff. For reservations and information, please phone 973 748-9000, ext 279.
The Westminster Arts Center is a disabled access facility, located on the Campus of Bloomfield College, in the town center of Bloomfield, New Jersey, on the corner of Fremont and Franklin Streets. For detailed directions, please visit http://www.bloomfield.edu/about/location.asp
Fuller, a teacher at the Jazz Institute of New Jersey, comes from a well-known musical family, Fuller Sound, where she began her music education in piano and flute at the early age of three. She studied saxophone with Joe Jennings and received her bachelor of arts in Music from Spellman College, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She also received a masters degree in Jazz Pedagogy and Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. This year, Fuller will be serving a six-week term as artist in residence at New Mexico State University (2006), where she will tour with a nonet and clinic local schools and colleges.
Fuller has studied with music greats Wessell Anderson, Javon Jackson and Jesse Davi. She has also performed with numerous jazz luminaries including, Ed Thigpen, Mikey Roker, Charles Fambrough, Tony Reedus, John Swanna, Benny Powell, Joe Ford and Ndugu Chancellor, and with such big bands as the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Gerald Wilson Big Band, Charlie Persip Big Band, DIVA Jazz Orchestra and a featured artist with Don Byron in Stravinsky's “Ebony Concerto."
Fuller has been a featured artist in Jazz Improv Magazine “Saxophone Edition" (2004-2005), New York's All About Jazz Magazine and Hot House. Other honors include her performances at the Detroit Jazz Festival, Jazz Fest Vien (Vienna, Austria) and the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival. Fuller was the winner of the 1999 IAJE's Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition, a winner of Vail Jazz Party's Young Talent All-Stars, featured in a DOWNBEAT article for Up and Coming Musicians and chosen as TA/ Clinician for IAJE's Sister's in Jazz Quintet (2000).
Over the past several years Fuller has taught ensembles, master classes and lectures at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Duquesne University (lecture), Kansas State University (lecture), University of Colorado at Boulder Jazz Camp, University of Denver's “Colorado Jazz Workshop," and performed a week-long residency at Miami-Dade Community College where she served as a clinician/guest artist in local middle school, high school and college ensembles. Fuller was also selected as a guest artist/clinician at Ohio State University's “Women in Jazz" Symposium, a clinician at the International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention (IAJE) and at Purchase College.
“Tia Fuller is one of a select number of bright young jazz stars on the scene today," says David Rosenak, Westminster Arts Center Artistic Director. “She also joins a long tradition of African American women who have advanced the jazz saxophone. I look forward to our conversation with Tia, and to celebrating her birthday on March 27th.
The Monday night JazzTalks series will continue with jazz drummer/composer Cecil Brooks III on April 10th. All programs take place at 8:00 PM in the Van Fossan Theatre.
Tickets for JazzTalks are $15 for General Admission, $5 Students and Seniors, and FREE for BC students, faculty and staff. For reservations and information, please phone 973 748-9000, ext 279.
The Westminster Arts Center is a disabled access facility, located on the Campus of Bloomfield College, in the town center of Bloomfield, New Jersey, on the corner of Fremont and Franklin Streets. For detailed directions, please visit http://www.bloomfield.edu/about/location.asp
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