Laskin Jazz Master Class
Johannes Wallmann
Save the Date – January 15, 2019
Mark your calendars for a Laskin Master Class with pianist and composer Johannes Wallmann, recording artist on Fresh Sound New Talent Records and Shifting Paradigm Records, and the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Master Class time & program to be announced at a later date. Admission is free & open to the public.
McIntosh|Goodrich Mansion
Helen Bader Recital Hall
1584 N Prospect Ave,
Milwaukee, WI 53202
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Meet Johannes
Born 1974 in Germany, Johannes Wallmann was raised on Canada’s Vancouver Island. He studied jazz piano and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston (B.Mus., 1995) and at New York University (M.A., 1997; Ph.D., 2010), while winning numerous national music competitions and scholarships, as well as two Canada Council artist grants. After moving to New York City in 1995, he quickly established himself as a versatile and in-demand sideman in a wide-range of musical styles.
Among the most experienced jazz educators of his generation, Wallmann taught at New York University (1996-2007) and the New School (2003-2007) before relocating to Oakland to lead the jazz studies program at California State University East Bay. In 2012, he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become Director of Jazz Studies and the inaugural holder of the John and Carolyn Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies at UW’s acclaimed Mead Witter School of Music.
Watch Johannes Wallman work with high school students
Wisconsin Public Television: Making Jazz – First Rehearsal
Follow 20 students’ from nine Wisconsin high schools as they work together as part of a prestigious Jazz ensemble at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The first rehearsal sets the scene for any ensemble and particularly for the students of the UW High School Honors Jazz Band. How do you bring a group of strangers together to create music when your time together is so limited? Watch first hand as Director Johannes Wallmann and Assistant Director Eric Siereveld lead this group of 20 students through their first of only four rehearsals as they prepare for a concert in just two weeks.
Thomas A Laskin Memorial Master Class Series
The Thomas A. Laskin Memorial Master Class Series is made possible by generous donors who wished to memorialize musician and journalist Thomas Laskin, a founding member of The Appliances and music critic at Isthmus for 18 years. The series provides insights on jazz, the uniquely American form, with some of the best musicians in the country. Past guests include Grammy-winners Eddie Gomez and Brian Lynch, plus dozens of industry pros.