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Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew's' website features reviews, sound bites, itinerary, biography.
Saxophonist-composer-arranger Virginia Mayhew has been an active participant in the New York jazz scene since 1987. A native of San Francisco, Virginia came to New York in 1987, where she enrolled in the New School's Jazz Performance program, and was awarded its Zoot Sims Memorial Scholarship.
Since her arrival, Virginia has worked with such renowned artists as Norman Simmons, Al Grey, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabakin, Joe Williams, Leon Parker, Clark Terry, Terry Gibbs, Kenny Barron, Chico O'Farrill, Claudio Roditi, and many others. She has appeared in most of the city's jazz venues, including the Blue Note, the Village Vanguard, the Village Gate, Sweet Basil, Fat Tuesday's, Birdland, Carnegie Hall, the Jazz Standard, Lincoln Center, and Town Hall, as well as performing throughout the United States, Europe, the Newly Independent States, the Caribbean, Bermuda, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
Virginia has performed at many jazz festivals as a leader, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Floating Jazz Festival, the Verizon Jazz Festival, the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival, the Panasonic Jazz Festival, the Guinness Cork (Ireland) Jazz Festival, the Verizon Music Festival, the Perth International Arts Festival, the Melbourne Jazz Festival, Llangollen International Music Festival and other smaller festivals.
Virginia has also traveled to the Newly Independent States (formerly the USSR...Kazakhstan, Moldova, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine) as a Jazz Ambassador for the US State Department, featuring the music of Louis Armstrong, and to Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh) demonstrating the Latin and Brazilian influence on Jazz Music.
In addition, Virginia has established her credentials in the field of jazz education, both as a teacher of private students, as faculty at numerous jazz camps, and as an experienced clinician. She has traveled around the U.S.A. working as an adjudicator, teaching master classes, and working with school ensembles large and small. Her quartet performed at the 2002 IAJE Conference to rave reviews. She teaches at the Greenwich Music House, a 100-year-old community music center, where she is the director and founder of the Greenwich House Jazz Workshop.
For several years, Virginia worked with veteran trombonist Al Grey. She is featured on his 1992 release, FAB (Capri), and contributed several arrangements to his 1995 CD, Centerpiece (Telarc). Her arrangements were also performed during the "Battle Royale: Trombones and Alto Saxophones" concert, which was part of the 1994 Jazz At Lincoln Center ...
Saxophonist-composer-arranger Virginia Mayhew has been an active participant in the New York jazz scene since 1987. A native of San Francisco, Virginia came to New York in 1987, where she enrolled in the New School's Jazz Performance program, and was awarded its Zoot Sims Memorial Scholarship.
Since her arrival, Virginia has worked with such renowned artists as Norman Simmons, Al Grey, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabakin, Joe Williams, Leon Parker, Clark Terry, Terry Gibbs, Kenny Barron, Chico O'Farrill, Claudio Roditi, and many others. She has appeared in most of the city's jazz venues, including the Blue Note, the Village Vanguard, the Village Gate, Sweet Basil, Fat Tuesday's, Birdland, Carnegie Hall, the Jazz Standard, Lincoln Center, and Town Hall, as well as performing throughout the United States, Europe, the Newly Independent States, the Caribbean, Bermuda, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
Virginia has performed at many jazz festivals as a leader, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Floating Jazz Festival, the Verizon Jazz Festival, the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival, the Panasonic Jazz Festival, the Guinness Cork (Ireland) Jazz Festival, the Verizon Music Festival, the Perth International Arts Festival, the Melbourne Jazz Festival, Llangollen International Music Festival and other smaller festivals.
Virginia has also traveled to the Newly Independent States (formerly the USSR...Kazakhstan, Moldova, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine) as a Jazz Ambassador for the US State Department, featuring the music of Louis Armstrong, and to Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh) demonstrating the Latin and Brazilian influence on Jazz Music.
In addition, Virginia has established her credentials in the field of jazz education, both as a teacher of private students, as faculty at numerous jazz camps, and as an experienced clinician. She has traveled around the U.S.A. working as an adjudicator, teaching master classes, and working with school ensembles large and small. Her quartet performed at the 2002 IAJE Conference to rave reviews. She teaches at the Greenwich Music House, a 100-year-old community music center, where she is the director and founder of the Greenwich House Jazz Workshop.
For several years, Virginia worked with veteran trombonist Al Grey. She is featured on his 1992 release, FAB (Capri), and contributed several arrangements to his 1995 CD, Centerpiece (Telarc). Her arrangements were also performed during the "Battle Royale: Trombones and Alto Saxophones" concert, which was part of the 1994 Jazz At Lincoln Center ...
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