The Roberto Ocasio Foundation Announces Latin Jazz Camp

Applications for The Roberto Ocasio Foundation (TROF) are being accepted until May 15 for the Camp, June 25-30, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The Camp has been in existence for 13 years under the leadership of Artistic Director/Artist-In-Residence, Bobby Sanabria--seven-time Grammy nominee and world-renowned jazz and Latin jazz drummer/percussionist, composer, music educator, bandleader, and producer.

With many schools no longer providing programs for music, or any of the arts, this week-long summer camp is for music students of all instruments in grades 8-12. The one-of-a-kind resident camp emphasizes the Latin jazz continuum. Programming includes learning the music's history, culture, and relationship to jazz and all other forms of American popular music and as the technical aspect of playing in the various styles in Latin jazz, analysis of Latin American rhythms (in particular, la clave), and jazz composing, arranging, and improvising. There is also a public performance.
$700 tuition covers dorm accommodations meals, instruction, materials, rehearsals, professional and celebrity presentations/sessions, cultural activities, and field trips.

The KeyBank Foundation will present the Camp's annual big-band Latin Jazz concert on June 30th, 7pm, at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gartner Auditorium - 11150 East Boulevard in University Circle; Cleveland, Ohio. The concert is FREE and open to the public. Mr. Sanabria will direct Camp students, faculty and special guest artist(s) TBA in a Latin-jazz repertoire that also pays tribute to early Cuban influences plus the 100th birthday of Dizzy Gillespie and the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of the ever popular musical, West Side Story.

The Ocasio Latin Jazz Camp is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and by The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The KeyBank Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, and The Giant Eagle Foundation. Mr. Sanabria's residency is made possible in part by LP (Latin Percussion), Remo, Sabian, Tama, and Vic Firth.

See robertoocasiofoundation.org or call 440.572.2048 for more information and application.

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