Continuing an affiliation with The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust, MTC has announced the 2007 recipients of the Van Lier Fellowship.
This year's Van Lier fellowship awardees: Sherisse Rogers & Emilio Teubal.
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At age 28, Sherisse Rogers has already won some of the most prestigious awards in her field, including: the 2001 Best Arrangement award from The American Society of Musicians Composers and Arrangers for her arrangement of "Here's that Rainy Day;" the 2002 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award for her piece "Waiting;" the 2004 ASCAP IAJE Emerging Composer Award in Honor of Count Basie; the 2005 Young Jazz Composers Award for "Transitions (for Big Band and String Quartet);" the 2005 BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Award/Manny Albam Memorial Commission; and,
the 2006 Herb Albert Foundation/IAJE Gil Evans Fellowship.
Her composition styles range from jazz and classical to world music and Rhythm & Blues. She has received several commissions and has written music for Dave Liebman and Peter Erskine.
Listen: Sherisse Rogers' Sleight of Hand (mp3)
Most recently, her large ensemble Project Uprising released their first recording entitled Sleight of Hand which received a 4.5 star review in Downbeat Magazine. The CD features Dave Liebman, in addition to other special guests.
In May 2004, she received a Masters of Music in Jazz Composition from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Michael Abene. Some of her other teachers have included Jim McNeely, Dave Liebman, and Matt Harris.
Her music is published by Walrus Music.
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Sherisse Rogers
Walrus Music
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Emilio Teubal was born in Madrid, Spain in 1976. At that time, his parents where exile from the dictatorship government in Argentina. After a year in Spain, the whole family moved to Mexico City where they spent five years. In 1984, with the return of the democracy, his family decided to go back to Argentina. Once in Buenos Aires, Emilio started playing the piano at the age of nine.
He studied piano at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires, and composition, arranging, and orchestration with private teachers. He was a very active performer in the tango and jazz scene of Buenos Aires until 1999, when he moved to New York City to continue his musical studies.
Listen: Emilio Teubal's A Caballo (mp3)
In the United States, Emilio earned a BFA in Music from the City College of New York, graduating magna cum laude, and achieved the Zolot Award, recognizing him as the most talented student. He also received the Bushwick Composition Award for two consecutive years. At CCNY his teachers included prominent jazz figures such as Ron Carter, Marc Copland, Scott Reeves, Bruce Barth, Mike Holober, John Pattitucci, and Ray Santos.
Emilio's main activities as a composer involve La Balteuband, his own Argentinean Jazz group, which has performed in some of the most prestigious avant-garde and jazz venues in New York City, among them Cornelia Street Cafe, the Knitting Factory, Galapagos Art Space, Bowery Poetry Club, Nublu, and others. La Balteuband had recorded his first album that was released in Fall 2006.
Emilio has also written music for animated films of the video artist Dalia Fischbein such as "Pendulous set" (2004), "Beginning" (2005), and "Net" (2006). These works has been showed in several film festivals along the United States, Greece, and Argentina. As a big band composer/arranger, he has written for the prestigious Westchester Jazz Orchestra. He has also arranged for the CCNY Big Band.
In addition to his career as a performer, composer and arranger, he has an intense commitment to music education. He has taught at the Boys Harbor Conservatory, Unison for Performing Arts, and many other important music schools in the New York area. He has also taught several Tango Master Classes at Columbia University, Hunter College, Temple University
(Philadelphia) and City College of New York.
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Emilio Teubal
