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EFCF/JEN Research Fellowship

EFCF/JEN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation (EFCF) – Jazz Education Network (JEN) Research Fellowship at the
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
in Washington, D.C.

The EFCF/JEN Research Fellowship is intended to provide opportunities for a serious educator/student/music historian (such as senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students) to conduct a directed research Project associated with the archival collections at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
 

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The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation (in Los Angeles, CA) is prepared to make a monetary grant of between one thousand and five thousand dollars, and an additional thousand dollars may be awarded towards travel and accommodations if the Foundation deems this necessary.

submissions are due by October 15

Grant awardee will be notified by November 31.

  • The project will be allowed up to two years for final completion or the fellowship money must be refunded in full.
  • Final presentation of the project will take place at the Smithsonian Institute as well as at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference.
  • A written document/summation (non-exclusively) published through JEN is also required to be completed no later than six months after the final presentation.

After starting your application by clicking below, please submit the following application materials. Click below to begin application.

  1. Research Proposal
  2. Curriculum Vitae
  3. Letter of Reference
  4. Budget

We look forward to reviewing your application materials!

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additional information

Grant proposals must include the following:(grant request not to exceed 1,500 words):

  • Research proposal project outline
  • The relationship and benefit to specific jazz research areas
  • Information on how the resources of the Smithsonian Institution will be used
  • Proposed timeline

Plus

  • Detailed list of collaborators
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Letter of reference by the Department Chair or an expert in the field
  • Detailed budget

Examples for resources at the Smithsonian Institution include the following archival collections housed at the National Museum of American History and its Archives Center.  To find additional resources and more detailed information, please visit www.smithsonianjazz.org

Selected archival Jazz Collections:
  • Duke Ellington Collection
  • Ruth Ellington Collection
  • Cat Anderson Collection
  • Rex Stewart Collection
  • Duke Ellington Oral History Project Collection
  • Bill Holman Collection (800 scores)
  • Jimmie Lunceford Band Library (about 200 original orchestrations)
  • Ella Fitzgerald Collection
  • Benny Carter Collection
  • Milt Gabler Collection
  • Ramsey Lewis Collection
  • Ray McKinley Collection
  • Willie Smith Collection
  • Claude “Fiddler” Williams Papers
  • Ernie Smith Collection of Jazz Films (about 300 titles)
  • Herman Leonard Photograph Collection
  • Bill Claxton Photograph Collection
  • Francis Wolff Jazz Photographs
  • Stephanie Myers Jazz Photograph Collection
  • W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Publicity Photos
  • Frank Schiffman Apollo Theater Collection
  • Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music (over 100,000 pieces, including many ragtime and jazz titles)
  • Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Collection (over 200 interviews)
 
Selected Smithsonian NMAH jazz personnel
  • John Edward Hasse, Ph.D
Curator, author, jazz historian and founder of Jazz Appreciation Month
  • Ken Kimery
Executive Producer of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and head of the Jazz Oral History Project
  • Wendy Shay
Deputy Chair and Audio-Visual Archivist, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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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.