2022 YCS Virtual Roundtable

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Join renowned jazz composers and Young Composer Showcase mentors Greg Yasinitsky, Steven Feifke, Ayn Inserto, Marcus Lewis, Ryan Middagh, and past Young Composer Showcase selectee Kate Skinner for a roundtable conversation about all-things jazz composition.

Ryan Middagh, Director of the JEN’s Young Composer Showcase Program will moderate the panel as they discuss:

• How they got started as jazz composers

• Their personal compositional process

• The mentor – mentee relationship

Plus a Q & A with the Facebook Live audience.

The panel will also discuss their personal experiences as part of the Jazz Education Network’s Young Composer Showcase Program.

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charlotte lang

Swiss/Dutch saxophonist Charlotte Lang was born in 1996 in Basel and studied the bachelor and master program at the JAZZCAMPUS Basel under the guidance of Domenic Landolf and Daniel Blanc. She is currently studying the Master of Music in Global Jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston under the artistic direction of Danilo Pérez. In addition she is part of Terri Lyne Carrington’s Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.

 

From 2015 to 2018, Charlotte she was a member of the Swiss National Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Christian Muthspiel. Since 2020, she became a member of the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra (Bundesjazzorchester Deutschland), under the direction of Niels Klein and Ansgar Striepens. She also plays is the Austrian FJO (Frauen Jazz Orchester→Women Jazz Orchestra of Austria).

 

In 2021, Charlotte founded her own Quintet the „Charlotte Lang Group“, for what she is composing, arranging and booking. In the fall 2023, her first album will be recorded and hopefully released by a renowned label.

 

Charlotte plays in the “Swiss Jazz Orchestra” and the “Zurich Jazz Orchestra”, the two professional Big Bands of Switzerland.

Charlotte recently got the unique opportunity to write a monthly blog for the Swiss Jazz & Blues Magazine called JAZZTIME, to tell readers about her time at abroad and specifically her time at Berklee. Her graduate program lasts only until the summer of 2023. She hopes to stay in the United States to enlarge her network and build her musical career.