6:00 PM ET – Welcome
Jeremy Castillo, Levine Music Director of Performance and Chair of Contemporary Music
6:05 PM ET – Performance: The Paul Bratcher Organ Trio
Blues Everywhere – Shirley Scott
Daddy James – Jimmy Watson
Do Nothing till You Hear from Me – Duke Ellington & Bob Russell
6:30 PM ET – Panel Discussion: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Jazz Education
Paul Bratcher – co-chair of the piano faculty at Levine Music and Director of
Jazz Studies at Georgetown University.
Paul Carr – founded the Jazz Academy of Music in 2002, Paul is also the Director of the Gettysburg College Jazz Ensemble. Paul is Executive and Artistic Director the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival.
Reginald Cyntje – Director of Jazz Studies at DC’s own Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and a native of the US Virgin Islands.
Shannon Gunn – Co-founded the Jazz and Freedom Festival in 2015, raising funds and support for nonprofitssuch as Empower DC, Black Lives Matter DMV, WPFW-FM, the Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation, and ICE Out Of DC. In 2019, she started Jazz Girls Day DC, in collaboration with the Washington Women in Jazz Festival, to empower young women to pursue jazz without boundaries from gender.
7:30 PM ET – Panel Discussion: Women in Jazz – Performers & Educators
Presented by Washington Women in Jazz & Levine Music
Amy Bormet – is an in-demand pianist, vocalist, and composer. As an advocate for women in music, Amy created the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011 and continues to serve as executive director.
Jessica Boykin-Settles – a widely respected vocalist and a professor at Howard University who has mentored a handful of the city’s fine young singers.
Karine Chapdelaine – Bassist Karine Chapdelaine has led an active performance career that includes international performances in Europe, South America, Mexico, Africa, and Asia
Alison Crockett – Has been in the worldwide the music scene as a vocalist and educator for decades has created a program/performance that seeks to educate and include singers of all ages and generations in the joy of singing Vocal Jazz.
Shannon Gunn – Trombonist and Co-founded the Jazz and Freedom Festival in 2015, raising funds and support for non-profits such as Empower DC, Black Lives Matter DMV, WPFW-FM, the Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation, and ICE Out Of DC.
