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2025 GUEST CLINICIANS LIST

2025 UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CLINIC TIMES ARE NOW 3:30 PM TO 4:00 PM

Each season Kansas City Area Youth Jazz invites Guest Artists and Educators to come in as clinicians during the course of our preparations for the album recording sessions. The following are among the artists and educators who have agreed to be contracted and scheduled for Kansas City Area Youth Jazz Clinics this season. Please note that this list is updated often.


2025 UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CLINIC TIMES ARE NOW 3:30 PM TO 4:00 PM


2025 UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CLINIC TIMES ARE NOW 3:30 PM TO 4:00 PM


2025 UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CLINIC TIMES ARE NOW 3:30 PM TO 4:00 PM



GUEST CLINICIAN MASTER LIST

2025 UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CLINIC TIMES ARE NOW 3:30 PM TO 4:00 PM

Photo: Some of the 2019 Fellows with the
3 Clinicians from
Berklee College of Music

YOUTH JAZZ is a program that takes advantage of its inherently diverse community of professionals within the greater Kansas City metropolitan area and beyond. We also understand that truly empowering the next generation requires creating an environment that allows all generations to interact with one another in the types of meaningful contexts our program provides during each season. Both applied and educational learning contexts are unique benefits to YOUTH JAZZ. (1) Preparing music to a high level for recording, (2) performing concerts in the community, and (3) serving as peer mentors are among the opportunities that FELLOWS are afforded. (4) Networking among peers and developing relationships with industry mentors are vital skills for building living-wage arts infrastructure and community.

(CLICK THE ARROW TO SEE THE LIST)

visit individual websites for full profiles

Dr. Arthur White – website

Mr. Joel Gordon – website

Ms. Judi Dietz – website

Prof. Dino Massa – website

Photo: Mr. Jansen, Yanagisawa Artist,
and Dr. Mike PaganARC Artist
(2022 Jam Sessions Program clinicians)

Prof. Patrick Cornelius – website

Ms. Alyssa Murray – website

Prof. Clarence Smith – website

Prof. Jason Goudeau – website

Mr. B.J. Jansen – website

Dr. Dan Thomas – website

Photo: Dr. Thomas,
Ottawa University
(2022 season clinic)

Mr. John Gardner – website

Mr. Doug Talley – website

Prof. David Valdez – website

Mr. Tate Berry – website

Dr. Jared Prost – website

Prof. Jim Mair – website

Ms. Jackie Meyers – website

Mr. Luis Portillo – website

Mr. Houston Smith – website

Photo: Mr. Houston Smith,
Berklee College of Music alumnus
(2021 season clinic)

Mr. Morgan Faw – website

Dr. Mike Parkinson – website

Ms. Amber Underwood – website

Dr. Luke Johnson – website

Prof. Nate Nall – website

Dr. Todd Wilkinson – website

Mr. CarrollFeatured Clinician,
sitting in with a group of FELLOWS
(2022 season community performance
).

Mr. Jason Bata – website

Prof. Adam Larson – website

Dr. Ryan Heinlein – website

Mr. Pat Adams – website

Prof. Erica Lindsay – website

Ms. Sumi Tonooka – website

Prof. Jeff Siegel – website

Prof. Michael Jefry Stevens – website

Dr. David N. Vance – website

Prof. Stanton Kessler – website


VIDEO CLINIC

VIDEO CLINIC: Professor Patrick Cornelius gives a clinic to Kansas City Area Youth Jazz Fellows on his composition “Infinite Blue” which was performed and recorded during the 2020 KCAYJ season. *Get his recordings everywhere.

PATRICK CORNELIUS HAS DONATED HIS ENTIRE RECORDED CATALOG OF HIS PUBLISHED COMPOSITIONS TO YOUTH JAZZ.

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