These events are presented as part of the 44th Annual Jazz Festival at Ohio State.
5 p.m. • Master class and Q&A via Zoom
Watch the following on the School of Music YouTube channel:
6:30 p.m. • Jazz Combos première (pre-recorded)
8 p.m. • Ohio Jaztet with Christian Howes
(livestream broadcast)
Registration is required for the master class. You will receive the Zoom meeting link in the registration confirmation email.
Violinist, educator and composer, Christian Howes was voted #1 in the Downbeat Critics Poll (“Rising Stars/Violin”), named among the top three jazz violinists in the JazzTimes critics poll, and nominated for Violinist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. He received the Residency Partner Award through Chamber Music America, earned a USArtists grant through the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and was invited by the U.S. State department to teach and perform as a cultural ambassador twice, in Ukraine and Montenegro. His release on Resonance Records, “Southern Exposure” earned recognition in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Downbeat, Jazz Times, as well as a six-night run at Lincoln Center. His release, American Spirit, was named among the Best Jazz Albums of 2015 by the Huffington Post. Howes is the founder of Creative Strings, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to expand music education through the creation of online curriculum, an annual summer conference, and dozens of visits to schools annually teaching improvisation, contemporary styles, and related subjects. He endorses Yamaha violins and D’Addario strings. Connect with Christian on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, SoundCloud or at www.creativestrings.org.
If you require an accommodation to participate in the Zoom meetings, please email the event host, Jeremy Smith (smith.13073@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before an event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet all requests.
