ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL

AREAS OF FOCUS

General Daily Schedule

Vocal Intensive

Guitar Intensive

Piano Intensive

Advanced Instrumental

String Program

Schedule at a Glance

Class Descriptions

This 2-hour group intensive offers advanced students a week-long opportunity to study and play together under the tutelage of our esteemed Artist in Residence.

Designed for a maximum of 12 instrumentalists, this program provides advance instruction in a focused immersive setting. The Advanced Instrumental Track culminates with a performance on the last Saturday of camp.

Daily Schedule

3-4: Master Class
4:15-5:15: Each class conducted by a different faculty member each day

Note: If accepted into this program you may not join a combo, however you are welcome to audition/join the Piano Intensive.

In some cases there will be more than one student per instrument.
All instruments welcome.

About the Audition

Attend the audition for your instrument and let the auditioners know you would like to be considered for the Adv Instrumental Track. We will be choosing the most advanced players.

Anat Cohen

Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen continues to win hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and charismatic stage presence, her performances “a picture of joy,” according to DownBeat. Anat’s multiple Grammy Award nominations include one for Triple Helix, the second album by her Tentet, an extraordinary 10-piece band that she has showcased at such venues as Carnegie Hall and SFJAZZ. Bloom, her 21st album as a leader and the second by her newest group, Quartetinho, was released in September 2024. The great Nat Hentoff encapsulated her artistry this way: “Anat does what all authentic musicians do: She tells stories from her own experiences that are so deeply felt that they are very likely to connect listeners to their own dreams, desires and longings.”

Anat has been named Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association every year since 2007, and she has also been the top clarinetist in both the readers and critics polls in DownBeat, the jazz bible, every year since 2011. The New York Times in 2013 profiled her as “a revelation” on the clarinet, crediting her as the primary force for bringing it into the 21st-century as a solo instrument. Earning this acclaim, the Brooklyn-based artist has toured the world, from across North and South America to Europe, Asia and India, headlining at the Newport, Umbria and North Sea jazz festivals as well as at Carnegie’s prestigious Zankel Hall and such hallowed clubs as New York’s Village Vanguard. A JazzTimes review of a 2022 Quartetinho performance at Seattle’s Earshot Festival underscored Anat’s evolution: “She has been winning jazz polls on clarinet for years, but her work has steadily grown stronger and deeper and freer.”

Since 2005, Anat’s ever-prolific series of releases via her Anzic Records label have seen her range from infectious swingers to lilting balladry, from small groups to larger ensembles and back again, exploring a world of music along the way. Anat fell for the choro music of Brazil while studying at the Berklee College of Music, and the country eventually became a home away from home for her. Not only have many of her albums as a leader included Brazilian classics and original pieces that Anat composed under the influence of choro, samba, bossa nova and more; the clarinetist has also devoted multiple albums completely to Brazilian music, including the Grammy-nominated Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with Brazilian guitarist Marcello Gonçalves) and the Grammy-nominated Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro). DownBeat declared: “One of the most acclaimed clarinetists in jazz, the Israel-born Cohen has also managed to become one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Brazilian music. Indeed, she is now to the clarinet what Stan Getz was to the tenor saxophone in the 1960s: a jazz musician who speaks the language so fluently that she has become a beacon of Brazilian music to the larger jazz world.”

Over the past two decades, Anat has collaborated with artists from Latin jazz star Paquito D’Rivera to pianist Fred Hersch to vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, among many others. She has also toured the world and recorded four albums alongside her brothers, trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval, as part of the 3 Cohens Sextet. DownBeat put the 3 Cohens on the cover of its January 2012 issue, and All About Jazz asserted: “To the ranks of the Heaths of Philadelphia, the Joneses of Detroit and the Marsalises of New Orleans, fans can now add the 3 Cohens of Tel Aviv.” In 2022, the 3 Cohens performed a concert with Germany’s WDR Big Band that will be released as a live album.

Anat teaches at the Stanford University Jazz Workshop in California and The New School in Manhattan, among other institutions, and she has been Jazz Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. On March 2025, Anat will mark a milestone with four concerts in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. “Anat Cohen: Journeys — A 50th Birthday Celebration” will present Anat with Quartetinho, the Tentet and alongside her brothers. As the Chicago Tribune has said out about Anat’s artistry: “The lyric beauty of her tone, easy fluidity of her technique and extroverted manner of her delivery make this music accessible to all.”