Loren 勋伯格

Loren 勋伯格, who’s the senior scholar of the National 爵士乐 Museum in Harlem, is on the faculty at Juilliard and has also taught at Manhattan School of 音乐 and the New School. 勋伯格 has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 白宫, the New York Philharmonic, Stanford University, and the Aspen Institute. He has conducted the 爵士乐 at 林肯中心 Orchestra as well as the Smithsonian 爵士乐 Masterworks Orchestra, the American 爵士乐 Orchestra, and the WDR 爵士乐 Orchestra in Koln, 德国. 勋伯格, a tenor saxophonist/pianist, has played and recorded with Benny Carter, 贝尼·古德曼, 吉米·希斯, 艾迪达勒姆, Marian McPartland, 克拉克特里, 约翰•路易斯, Christian McBride, and Buck Clayton, and he was musical director for Bobby Short from 1997 to 2005. He also received two Grammy awards for best album notes, in 1994 and 2004. From 1986 to 1995, he oversaw the 贝尼·古德曼 档案 at Yale University. He has taught for several 爵士乐 at 林肯中心 education programs and served as a screening judge for its  Essentially Ellington program for 20 years. 勋伯格 has been published widely (including in the New York Times), and his book, The NPR Guide to 爵士乐, was released in 2003. He was hired in 2001 to lead the effort to establish the National 爵士乐 Museum in Harlem and served for more than a decade as its executive director, creating many of its signal programs and enlisting Christian McBride, Jonathan Batiste, 肯·伯恩斯, and Wynton Marsalis to help further the museum’s mission.