Two Upper Darby High School students
have been selected along with 30 other talented teens, to perform in the 2014 Grammy
Camp Jazz Session. The students, Immanuel Wilkins and
Yesseh Furaha-Ali, play the
saxophone.
GRAMMY Camp — Jazz Session has been fostering the next
generation of music and its makers since 1993, and the results have been truly
impressive," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of the GRAMMY Foundation and
The Recording Academy®. "Not only
do these young people have a once-in-a-lifetime experience during GRAMMY Week
playing with their peers as well as with GRAMMY-nominated and GRAMMY-winning
artists at a range of events, but many of them go on to enjoy thriving
performance careers, including singer/pianist Peter Cincotti, three-time
GRAMMY-nominated jazz pianist Gerald Clayton, New York Philharmonic bassist
David J. Grossman, GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Brandon Heath,
saxophonist Grace Kelly, and pianist Aaron Parks, among others."
The selected students will perform at various GRAMMY Week events including —
for the fifth year— an appearance at GRAMMY In The Schools Live! — A Celebration Of Music &
Education, sponsored by Ford Motor Company Fund. This
special evening, which is open to the public, will showcase the selectees, along with special guest artists, on Jan.
22, 2014, at the University of Southern California. The group will offer
another public performance at Spaghettini Fine Dining & Entertainment with a special guest artist on
Jan. 23. GRAMMY Camp — Jazz Session members will also attend the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards on
Jan. 26 as guests of The Recording Academy and will perform at theGRAMMY Celebration® after-party.
On Jan. 23–25, the young musicians will again record at the
legendary Capitol Studios & Mastering in
Hollywood, Calif., courtesy of the EMI Music Group. GRAMMY Camp — Jazz Session albums from
2007–2013 are available for
purchase at online music outlets such as Amazon, iTunes,
Napster, and Rhapsody.
The GRAMMY Camp — Jazz Session selectees are eligible for more than $2 million
in college scholarships made possible through the GRAMMY Foundation's college
partners: Berklee College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, the New School
for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and USC Thornton School of Music. In addition,
each selectee's school will receive a professional cymbal courtesy
of the Zildjian Company.
Check out the two in the below video taken during an
appearance in Memphis.
