Milwaukee Jazz Institute presents Peer to Peer Program with the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. This is a unique opportunity for our MJI students to work alongside top high school students from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. ************** This is free and open to the public!
Since 2005, Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education Tours have been presented in Anchorage, Austin, Berkeley, Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Honolulu, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis, Oakland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Francisco and Seattle. Each year, the program has resonated with students and adults alike.
In 2019, Institute students from the nation’s leading public performing arts high schools visited schools across America. High school jazz all-stars, including talented students from Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and Newark, introduced the Peer-to-Peer program to thousands of public school students in Maine, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Vermont. While teaching their peers, the touring student musicians received helpful instruction from jazz greats Sean Jones, Lisa Henry and Steve Wilson, and performed at prestigious jazz venues including Blue in Portland, Maine and the UCO Jazz Lab in Edmund, Oklahoma. Lead funding for the 2019 Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education Tours was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
