Performer-Composer (MM)
Performer-Composer MM Spotlight Series
MM Performer-Composer students present their work in online space.
This is a rare place where artists can pursue what makes them a unique musician. Here, students explore their talents, create from scratch, and reach across disciplines to construct original means of expression. With nearly eighty ensembles that form each semester, students have the opportunity to play in clubs, concert halls, and venues throughout New York, as well as festivals and exchange programs around the world.
Explore student and faculty work, learning opportunities, and upcoming performances.
MM Performer-Composer students present their work in online space.
Arts Management and Entrepreneurship student tells the story of her country through music and collaboration.
Students from Drama, Jazz, and Mannes present Cabaret
Jazz professor Reggie Workman helps students discover their radical artistry.
As part of an ongoing series, ensembles from Mannes and Jazz perform live to screenings of landmark silent films.
Celebrated musician and School of Jazz alumnus Grégoire Maret cultivates a new approach to improvisation
Vibraphonist Joel Ross is a leading young musician in contemporary jazz and faculty member of The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.
Jane Ira Bloom, Faculty at School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, College of Performing Arts
Alumna Lessie Vonner has shared the stage with some of the world’s biggest artists.
Professor Victor’s singing is like a creative salve during the pandemic and is an expression of her belief that artists should be relevant to their times.
Hank Shocklee, founder of the group Public Enemy, joins the School of Jazz faculty to help students on the path to entrepreneurship
Explore new facets of your artistry. With ensembles recast each semester, one semester you'll be playing in the Electric Miles Davis directed by a musician like Adam Holzman, who played with Miles in the 1980s. The next, you'll play in Studio Orchestra, collaborating with Mannes performers in our largest ensemble, directed by a legendary musician like Ingrid and Christine Jensen. Make any of our eighty ensembles your own-choose the type of music you want to make, the musicians you want to play with, and the directors you want as your mentors.
Don't just live in one of the most thriving music scenes in the world-play in it. With partnerships around the city, you can easily take part in jam sessions at some of the greatest jazz clubs in NYC like Smalls and Zinc Bar, or find yourself onstage at cultural hotspots like The Morgan Library and the Highline. Play in venues across the city-as all of New York becomes your stage, bandstand, studio, and cultural playground.
Travel the world as an artist. Our international partnerships will develop you into the kind of musicians you want to be. Play gigs at the Bern International Jazz Festival in Switzerland as one of six selected quartets, or represent the school with your performing talents at conferences and festivals around the globe. Share your unique voice with the world as we add new partnership opportunities every year.
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