SANTA MONICA
Unique Summer Program Brings Together Youth With Outstanding Artists And Music Industry Professionals
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (June 25, 2013) — The GRAMMY Foundation® (www.grammyfoundation.org) announced today that 99 talented high school students from 87 U.S. cities and 27 U.S. states have been selected as participants in the ninth annual GRAMMY Camp® program. In addition, through a partnership with GUCCI, four international students from Japan and England will attend GRAMMY Camp in Los Angeles, bringing the total number of students to 103 this year. The Foundation’s signature music industry camp for U.S. high school students will be held in Los Angeles from July 13–22 at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and in New York from Aug. 4–12 at Converse Rubber Tracks. This GRAMMY in the Schools® program is supported in part by Converse. “When we started this GRAMMY in the Schools® program nine years ago, we had very high hopes and aspirations for GRAMMY Camp ” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy® and the GRAMMY Foundation. “And I can truly say we’ve met our goals to offer young people a hands-on experience that delivers a sense of what it’s like to have an actual career in the music industry. Teens spend their time at GRAMMY Camp working with GRAMMY®-winning artists and industry professionals gaining knowledge and sharpening their skills, so they will be ready to take the next steps in their careers.” Applications for GRAMMY Camp 2014 are currently online at www.grammyintheschools.com and the deadline is March 31, 2014. Financial aid is available and approximately 70 percent of GRAMMY Camp participants who have applied for financial aid have received assistance. “Almost every artist and music professional who we bring to GRAMMY Camp comes away saying two things — ‘These kids are so talented’ and ‘I wish I’d had this kind of experience when I was young,'” said Kristen Madsen, Sr. Vice President of the GRAMMY Foundation. “This underscores the collaborative and immersive nature of GRAMMY Camp, and the fact that the experience produces lasting effects and positive influences for the campers who participate each summer.”
GRAMMY Camp L.A.: July 13–22 The program offers selected high school students an interactive 10-day residential summer music experience. Focusing on all aspects of commercial music, this unique opportunity provides instruction by industry professionals in an immersive creative environment with cutting-edge technology in professional facilities. The program offers six music career tracks: Engineering for Audio & Video; Electronic Music Production; Multimedia; Music Business; Songwriting; and a performance track for bass, drums, guitar, keyboard, vocal, and winds & strings. All tracks culminate in media projects, CD recordings and/or performances. GRAMMY Camp L.A. will be held at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and other professional venues throughout Los Angeles. 2013 GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles Selectees and Tracks
Zoe Adler Long Beach, Calif. Multimedia
Kelsey Alexander Orange Beach, Ala. Music Business
Wes Anderson Oneida, Ill. Bass
Houston Averiett II Missouri City, Texas Audio Engineering
Hudson Barineau Houston Guitar
Kellcee Batchelor Tarboro, N.C.
Music Business Colby Benson Mililani, Hawaii Songwriting
Harun Bonnett Brooklyn, N.Y. Drums
Haleigh Bowers Chino Hills, Calif. Songwriting
Conner Broome Henderson, Tenn. Keys
Rachel Brothers Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Songwriting
Patrick Bucknor Los Angeles Electronic Music Production
Isaiah Carter Lee’s Summit, Mo. Drums
Ryan Casey Glen Allen, Va. Guitar
Ben Cohen Columbia, Md. Electronic Music Production
Elizabeth Cohen Los Angeles Music Business
Zoe Concha Beverly Hills, Calif. Vocal
Carter Couron San Diego Drums
Cael Dadian Poway, Calif. Vocal
Daniel Davila Encino, Calif. Music Business
Mark Diaz San Fernando, Calif. Bass
Shelby Dibs Howard Beach, N.Y. Music Business
Isaac Duribe London, England Electronic Music Production
Sabrina Elam Baltimore Songwriting
Hayley Emerson Beverly Hills, Calif. Multimedia
Brendan Eprile Bennington, Vt. Vocal
Jacob Feldman Tarzana, Calif. Electronic Music Production
Jennifer Firestone Chesterfield, Mo. Music Business
Sophia Forino Corona del Mar, Calif. Music Business
Dane Foster Los Angeles Multimedia
Yasamin Ghodsbin Newport Beach, Calif. Audio Engineering
Wyatt Giampa Portola Valley, Calif. Audio Engineering
Zach Gospe Los Altos, Calif. Songwriting
Alecia Greene Atlanta Multimedia
Rita Guzman Decorah, Iowa Music Business
Raina Henderson Closter, N.J. Electronic Music Production
Seth Irby San Diego Bass
Nasya Jeffers Owings Mills, Md. Vocal
Noah Kovalick Newbury Park, Calif. Audio Engineering
Mikey LaSusa Eagan, Minn. Guitar
Devon Lawrence Mill Valley, Calif. Songwriting
Anh Le Madison, Wis. Songwriting
David Li Chandler, Ariz. Keys
Danielle Lowe Los Angeles Multimedia
Wyatt Lowe San Marcos, Calif. Guitar
Kennedi Lykken Spicer, Minn. Songwriting
Graham Marsh Houston Audio Engineering
Jacob McCoy Nashville Audio Engineering
Jonathan McCoy Wyncote, Pa. Electronic Music Production
Evan Mehta Burbank, Calif. Keys
Christine Meisenhelter Aberdeen, N.J. Bass
Devan Monroe Pearland, Texas Drums
Autumn Myers Howell, N.J. Music Business
Takumi Nakayama Shizuoka, Japan Winds/Strings/Horns
Tanya Orlov Redondo Beach, Calif. Audio Engineering
Pavlina Osta Port Orange, Fla. Multimedia
Quinn Oulton London, England Winds/Strings/Horns
Ross Phillips Indianapolis, Ind. Electronic Music Production
Jason Saitta Chantilly, Va. Songwriting
Tafari Salaam Beaufort, S.C. Winds/Strings/Horns
Dorian Sanders Maryland Heights, Mo. Guitar
Ryota Sasaguri Kagawa, Japan Winds/Strings/Horns
Julian Scanlan Mount Laurel, N.J.
Electronic Music Production Drew Schwendiman Summit, N.J. Multimedia
Jahmori Simmons Douglasville, Ga. Electronic Music Production
Aaron Spieldenner Normandy Park, Wash. Audio Engineering
Dominic Spitaliere Huntersville, N.C. Electronic Music Production
Tyler Talmadge Albuquerque, N.M.
Electronic Music Production Chloe Tang Phoenix Songwriting
Camille Thornton Great Falls, Va. Songwriting
Lilliana Villines Van Nuys, Calif. Songwriting
Chase Walker Riverside, Calif. Guitar
Marcus Wanner Nashville Guitar
Maxwell Yi Houston Electronic Music Production
GRAMMY Camp N.Y.: Aug. 4–12, 2013 GRAMMY Camp N.Y. is a nine-day residential program for high school students that offer campers the opportunity to work in integrated industry teams. This real-world, hands-on environment will involve an in-depth look at the entire creative process from the first spark of original material through the promotion of a finished product, and will culminate in a launch party. GRAMMY Camp N.Y. will be hosted by Converse Rubber Tracks in Brooklyn, N.Y.
2013 GRAMMY Camp New York Selectees and Tracks
Niki Bottoni Allentown, Pa. Electronic Music Production
Cody Brady Sea Cliff, N.Y. Bass
Brooks Brown Leawood, Kan. Electronic Music Production
Michael Cappelluti Marlboro, N.J. Keys
Mackin Carroll Huntington Beach, Calif. Songwriting
Lauren Craig Chicago Multimedia
Daniel Davila Encino, Calif Vocal
Isabella Englert Valley Cottage, N.Y. Songwriting
Michael Ervin Rock Hill, S.C. Drums
Amelia Eversole Folsom, Calif. Multimedia
Adam Gould Farmington Hills, Mich. Audio Engineering
Jadha Gunawan Sugar Land, Texas Multimedia
Abby Kanfer Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Multimedia
Samuel Korycki Kalamazoo, Mich. Guitar
Logan Lawrence Arlington, Texas Electronic Music Production
Michael Maple Ashland, Wis. Electronic Music Production
Reath Neilson Pasadena, Calif. Songwriting
Whitney Nixon Corona, Calif. Audio Engineering
Angelica Pollard San Ramon, Calif. Multimedia
Victoria Pritchard Spring Lake Heights, N.J. Songwriting
Valentina Rico Fort Lauderdale , Fla. Songwriting
Hanani Taylor Columbus, Ohio Vocal
Ben Thomas Philadelphia Audio Engineering
Samantha Vick Seattle Multimedia
Kyle Ward Rumson, N.J. Guitar
Isaiah Weatherspoon Jeffersonville, Pa. Drums
Emily Weeks Atlanta Songwriting
Bobby Woody Baltimore Audio Engineering
T.J. Wooten Tarboro, N.C. Electronic Music Production
The GRAMMY Foundation® was established in 1989 to cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture. The Foundation accomplishes this mission through programs and activities that engage the music industry and cultural community as well as the general public. The Foundation works in partnership year-round with its founder, The Recording Academy®, to bring national attention to important issues such as the value and impact of music and arts education and the urgency of preserving our rich cultural heritage. In recognition of the significant role of teachers in shaping their students’ musical experiences, the GRAMMY Foundation and The Recording Academy are partnering to present our first Music Educator Award. Open to current U.S. music teachers in K through college, the Music Educator Award will be given out during GRAMMY Week 2014. For more information about our music education programs, please visit www.grammyintheschools.com. For breaking news and exclusive content, please like “GRAMMY in the Schools®” on Facebook at www.facebook.com/grammyintheschools, follow the GRAMMY Foundation on Twitter @GRAMMYFdn at www.twitter.com/GRAMMYFdn and join us on Instagram @GRAMMYFdn.
Funds Will Provide Support for Archiving and Preservation Programs and Research Efforts that Examine the Impact Of Music on Human Development
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (April 11, 2013) — The GRAMMY Foundation® Grant Program announced today that more than $200,000 in grants will be awarded to 14 recipients in the United States to help facilitate a range of research, archiving and preservation projects on a variety of subjects. Research projects include a study that will investigate a potential core deficit in rhythm processing in developmental stuttering, combining behavioral and neuroimaging studies in children with studies in songbirds. Preservation and archiving initiatives include a project that will preserve and provide access to a unique organ recording collection of master organ player rolls and noteworthy arrangements produced in the 1920s; and an effort to preserve and digitize the audiovisual collections of imperiled media of the Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, and Bob Hope, among others. A complete list of grant awards and projects is below. The deadline each year for submitting letters of inquiry is Oct. 1. Guidelines and the letter of inquiry form for the 2014 cycle will be available beginning May 1 at www.grammyfoundation.org/grants.
“Since its inception, our GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program has awarded more than $6 million dollars to more than 300 noteworthy projects,” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy® and the GRAMMY Foundation. “This year we have another remarkable slate of selected grantees. Funds will be used for activities as varied as the preservation of unique live radio broadcasts from the ’30s and ’40s and the digitization of more than 90,000 Mexican-American recordings on 78s, 45s and cassettes to studies and programs that investigate the effects of music on children and their development — including one that will assess the biological effects of musical training on child brain development in collaboration with a nonprofit organization that provides free musical training to children in the gang reduction zones of Los Angeles. The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program is truly at the forefront of philanthropy across the areas of archiving, preservation and scientific research.”
Generously funded by The Recording Academy, the Grant Program provides funding annually to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations, as well as research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition. In 2008 the Grant Program expanded its categories to include assistance grants for individuals and small- to mid-sized organizations to assist collections held by individuals and organizations that may not have access to the expertise needed to create a preservation plan. The assistance planning process, which may include inventorying and stabilizing a collection, articulates the steps to be taken to ultimately archive recorded sound materials for future generations.
Preservation Implementation
New York Philharmonic — New York
Awarded: $20,000
The New York Philharmonic Archives will digitize and preserve 52 hours of brittle lacquer discs documenting 36 unique live radio broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. The total cache of 245 radio broadcast recordings made between 1932–1962 comprise a total of approximately 350 hours of audio in various formats to be made available to the public at the philharmonic’s reading room and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. www.nyphil.org
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation — New Orleans
Awarded: $3,095
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive will digitally preserve and make access copies of the 10 reel-to-reel master 2-inch tapes of the “Professor Longhair Fire Relief Benefit”, held April 22, 1974, to benefit Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd, 1918–1980). This work will result in the creation of preservation and access digital files, and the public will be welcomed to listen to the recordings in the archive. The original master tapes will be permanently stored in Iron Mountain’s special audiovisual vault. www.jazzandheritage.org
Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University — Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Awarded: $19,993
There are nearly 4,000 tapes in the Charles K. Wolfe Audio Collection at the Center for Popular Music, many of which are oral histories of musicians or field recordings. Dating from the 1930s–2000, this is likely the premier collection in the American Mid-South region. The center will inventory the contents, conserve the recordings, transcribe to digital format when appropriate, and make the collection publicly accessible. www.popmusic.mtsu.edu
American Organ Institute Archive and Library at the University of Oklahoma School of Music — Norman, Okla.
Awarded: $20,000
American Organ Institute Archive and Library will preserve and provide access to an incredibly unique organ recording collection. The collection’s emphasis is on the original and irreplaceable master organ player rolls produced by Moller Pipe Organ Co. in the 1920s (16 tons total), as well as recordings of organ arrangements by notable performers on organs lost to time. Many of the collection’s most treasured items are made of paper and are deteriorating rapidly. These will now be restored and shared with the public. www.ou.edu/aoi
The Arhoolie Foundation — El Cerrito, Calif.
Awarded: $20,000
Since 2005, the Arhoolie Foundation has digitized more than 90,000 Mexican-American recordings on 78s, 45s and cassettes from their Strachwitz Frontera Collection. The collection has been made accessible through a partnership with the UCLA Digital Library Program. Arhoolie will complete their final stage to digitize the rare LPs and unissued reel-to-reel master tapes. The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is a one-of-a-kind, unique cultural treasure that needs preservation and accessibility. www.arhoolie.org http://frontera.library.ucla.edu/
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries — Los Angeles
Awarded: $10,000
This implementation project will preserve, digitize, and provide public online access to one-of-a-kind, fragile, and historically significant audio recordings in the ONE Archives, the world’s largest LGBT historical collection. This project will make available 177 hours of recorded lectures, interviews, and oral histories that preserve the voices of the pioneering activists, scholars, and artists who launched the LGBT struggle for equality over the past six decades. www.onearchives.org
Preservation Implementation, cont’d. Pacifica Foundation — North Hollywood, Calif.
Awarded: $10,000
Pacifica Radio Archives will digitize, catalog, preserve, and promote 72 hours (93 tapes) of fragile reel-to-reel analog audio tapes holding unique broadcasts from Pacifica Radio’s listener sponsored noncommercial radio station, New York City’s WBAI-FM. Two significant series are to be preserved: The Free Music Store featuring Phil Ochs, Arthur Miller and Bill Vanaver and the Mind’s Eye Theatre, which produced radio plays created by premier artists and technicians. www.pacificaradioarchives.org
Preservation Assistance Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative — Carmel, Ind.
Awarded: $5,000
The Feinstein Initiative will determine necessary storage, rehousing, remediation, conservation, preservation, and digitization of audiovisual collections that include but are not limited to 16″ transcription discs, lacquer discs, cassette tape, CD, analog reel-to-reel, 16mm film, and slides that document the music of songbook legends such as Rudy Vallée, Meredith Willson and the Andrews Sisters. The preservation assessment will allow the initiative to find funding for preservation so that these items can be made accessible to researchers and the public. www.feinsteininitiative.org
Freedom Archives — San Francisco
Awarded: $5,000
Art Sato, a leading authority on contemporary jazz and new music, has hosted “In Your Ear,” a two-hour weekly radio series on KPFA-FM from 1981 to the present. The Freedom Archives will prepare for the digital preservation of more than 80 in-depth, unique, extended, and exclusive interviews over the last 30 years. The collection contains great artists and innovative practitioners of jazz and Latin music, including many who are now deceased. www.freedomarchives.org
Scientific Research Northwestern University — Chicago
Awarded: $19,895
This study will assess the biological effects of musical training on child brain development in collaboration with the Harmony Project, a nonprofit organization providing free musical training to children in the gang reduction zones of Los Angeles. Specifically, the study will examine the effects of musical training on the neural processing of speech as well as on the development of critical language and learning skills. www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu
John Devin McAuley — East Lansing, Mich.
Awarded: $19,500
Stuttering affects 3 million Americans. Children with chronic stuttering face lifelong struggles that can impact academic achievement and lead to negative psychosocial consequences. The project goal is to investigate a potential core deficit in rhythm processing in developmental stuttering, combining behavioral and neuroimaging studies in children with studies in songbirds, which under controlled conditions can be induced to stutter. psychology.msu.edu/TAPlab/index.htm
Scientific Research, cont’d Regents of the University of California, University of California, San Diego — La Jolla, Calif.
Awarded: $19,860
The SIMPHONY project is a unique collaboration designed to understand how music training affects children’s brains and the development of general cognitive skills like language and attention. It is the first study of its kind and will track 60 children annually starting at ages 5–10 as they engage in ensemble music training (versus nonmusic controls) using an extensive battery of neural and behavioral testing. www.chd.ucsd.edu/research/simphony-study.html
University of Washington — Seattle
Awarded: $10,000
Research shows that musical experience can enhance and promote healthy child development. Synchronization between players is a key aspect of playing music together. Synchrony can also strengthen bonds and affiliation between individuals. The dual aims of the proposed project are to: (a) determine whether children prefer synchronous as opposed to asynchronous rhythms and (b) examine whether children’s preference for synchrony is enhanced for musical interactions involving pitch, harmony and melody. We expect a musical context to increase the difference between synchronized and asynchronous interactions, illustrating music’s role as a vehicle for positive interpersonal interaction. ilabs.washington.edu
Pitzer College — Claremont, Calif.
Awarded: $19,900
To what extent do music and language share neural resources? We propose to evaluate music perception and cognition in a group of 40 aphasic individuals whose language deficits and brain lesions are well characterized. Using voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping, we will identify the areas of the brain that are most essential to the perception of melody, harmony, and rhythm, and compare these with similar VLSM analyses of language in the same participants. www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/justus/index.asp
The GRAMMY Foundation was established in 1989 to cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture. The Foundation accomplishes this mission through programs and activities that engage the music industry and cultural community as well as the general public. The Foundation works in partnership year-round with its founder, The Recording Academy®, to bring national attention to important issues such as the value and impact of music and arts education and the urgency of preserving our rich cultural heritage. In recognition of the significant role of teachers in shaping their students’ musical experiences, the GRAMMY Foundation and The Recording Academy are partnering to present our first Music Educator Award. Open to current U.S. music teachers in kindergarten through college, the Music Educator Award will be given out during GRAMMY Week 2014. The nomination process is online at grammymusicteacher.com and the deadline for submissions is April 15. For more information about the Foundation, please visit www.grammyfoundation.org. For breaking news and exclusive content, please like “GRAMMY in the Schools®” on Facebook at www.facebook.com/grammyintheschools, follow the GRAMMY Foundation on Twitter @GRAMMYFdn at www.twitter.com/GRAMMYFdn and join us on Instagram @GRAMMYFdn at www.instagram.com/GRAMMYfdn.