The Jazz Education Network (JEN) offers a wealth of resources including funding for research projects, publishing opportunities, publishing mentorship, presentations and poster sessions at the annual conference and networking with colleagues. Join head of the research committee Monika Herzig, editor of the Journal of Jazz Education in Research and Practice Martin Norgaard, and head of the mentoring committee Tish Oney for an info session with Q&A. We will discuss the process of submitting presentations and articles, applying for the EFCF Research Fellowship, mentoring opportunities, and networking opportunities. Students working on a thesis, new academics, experienced academics, freelancers, or anyone interested in learning, join us for this session.
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ABOUT DR. MONIKA HERZIG
Currently Professor for Artistic Research at the Jam Music Lab Private University in Vienna, Dr. Monika Herzig is the author of “David Baker – A Legacy in Music” (IU Press), Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener’s Companion (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), and co-editor of Jazz and Gender (Routledge, 2022). She is also the chair of the research committee for the Jazz Education Network (JEN) and on the editorial committee of JAZZ (Jazz Education in Research and Practice, IU Press).
As a jazz pianist she has toured the world, opened for acts such as Power of Tower, Sting, Yes and her music has won DownBeat Magazine Awards and was featured on NPR and JazzWeek. Her all-female Supergroup Sheroes was voted as one of the best groups of 2018 by DownBeat Magazine and her composition “Just Another Day at the Office” is one of the selections in New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Female Composers (Berklee Press, 2022). Herzig’s awards include a 1994 DownBeat Magazine Award for Best Original Song, a Jazz Journalist Association Hero 2015 award, as well as grants from the NEA, the Indiana Arts Commission, MEIEA, Jazz Tours, MidAtlantic Arts, the US Embassy among others. Monika is a CASIO Artist.
Martin Norgaard is Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Cognition and Creativity Lab at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He collaborates with faculty in occupational therapy, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, mathematics, and computer science to investigate the cognitive processes underlying improvisation and related therapeutic applications. His research appears in the Journal of Research in Music Education, The International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Cognition, Scientific Reports, Brain Sciences, Brain Connectivity, and the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception among others.
Dr. Norgaard is the author of ten jazz string method books for Mel Bay Publications including Jazz Fiddle Wizard and Jazz Fiddle/Viola/Cello Wizard Junior and the composer of several string orchestra pieces. Dr. Norgaard is a frequent clinician at state, national, and international conventions such as The ISME World Conference on Music Education, NeuroMusic, The Midwest Clinic, NAfME, ASTA, GMEA, and TMEA among others.
ABOUT DR. TISH ONEY
International performing artist, author, and composer Dr. Tish Oney tours as a symphony pops and big band soloist, bandleader, vocalist, teacher, and musicologist. An avid arranger and composer, Oney has arranged several hundred pieces for jazz combo including contemporary jazz, Great American Songbook standards, and her originals. An esteemed conductor and director of The Tish Oney Jazz Orchestra based in Greenville, SC, she works with professional, university, church, and community choirs; vocal jazz ensembles; instrumental ensembles; and soloists as a guest clinician and master teacher. She currently serves the jazz nonprofit GVL Jazz as Director of Education.
A critically acclaimed musicologist and bestselling author of Peggy Lee: A Century of Song (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) Oney is also acknowledged as an international leader in voice pedagogy with her second book, Jazz Singing: A Guide to Pedagogy and Performance (R&L, 2022). Serving as mentoring chair for the Jazz Education Network Research Interest Group (JENRING) she is a peer reviewer for the professional journal Jazz Education in Research and Practice, and a charter member of the Editorial Board for the NATS-Rowman & Littlefield Books Program. She writes a jazz theory and analysis column for All About Jazz (“Anatomy of a Standard”) and has been published in JazzTimes, Classical Singer Magazine, The ARSC Journal, and The Journal of Singing as a contributing writer. Dr. Oney fields frequent requests to adjudicate international singing competitions, write Forewords for books about music, and share her expertise via conference presentation, podcast, radio, television, and webinar media.
