Born: May 10, 1991 Primary Instrument: Drums
Drummer and composer Jimmy Macbride has received such prestigious honors as being invited to perform with the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival in 2009 and was also chosen to participate in the 2009 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at the Kennedy Center in DC. He has twice been selected to be a member of the Monterey Jazz Festival Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. The group did a tour of the Midwest, performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Wynton Marsalis. In 2010, Jimmy was a finalist in the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, YoungArts Week, where he attended a weeklong residency in Miami and performed in their Gold & Silver Awards Celebration at the Baryshnikov Center in NYC. He has attended the Vail Jazz Workshop and the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony, and has been awarded several full scholarships to Berklee’s 5-Week Performance Program. Other honors include several ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Awards for his original compositions as well as ASCAP Plus Awards in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Jimmy received Honorable Mention from the NFAA as well as being awarded Honorable Mention from the Stamford Symphony Instrumental Scholarship Competition. He is the recipient of both the 2009 SEIU Moe Foner Memorial Scholarship and The Hartford Jazz Society Scholarship to assist with his studies. Downbeat Magazine has honored Jimmy six times with its Student Music Awards, most recently in 2012 for his original composition “Short Stop”. In addition, the Percussive Arts Society awarded him the Larrie Londin Memorial Scholarship as well as the PASIC Scholarship. Some of Jimmy’s recent performances include performing at Alice Tully Hall with Herbie Hancock and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and the Killingworth Center for the Arts in CT, performing with the legendary Bob Dorough, and has opened for both Eddie Allen and Kevin Hays at this venue. In addition, he opened for Jeremy Pelt as part of the Hartford Jazz Society Wadsworth Athenaeum Series. Other recent performances include the Pittsfield City Jazz Festival and performances at the 55 Bar, Smalls and Bar Next Door in NYC. Jimmy is very involved in giving back to the community. Starting in third grade and through high school, Jimmy performed with a group called Jimmy and the Hasbeens. This group performed throughout the greater Hartford area at senior citizen homes, and the like. All proceeds earned from these performances have been donated to Jimmy’s former elementary school’s instrumental music fund. To date, the group has earned over $5,000 for the Whiting Lane School, which was able to purchase a drum set, along with other needed instruments and equipment.The group, now know as Duo Con Alma, continues to perform and raise money for the Whiting Lane School in West Hartford, with Jimmy’s sister Alma continuing this important endeavor. In addition, Jimmy served as a volunteer on the student task force of West Hartford’s Gifts of Music, a foundation that raises money for the town’s youth who are unable to afford musical instruments or private lessons. Jimmy’s commitment to education continues to grow. He has worked as an educator/mentor for several of Julliard’s summer jazz programs and was chosen to be a teacher/clinician aboard the Queen Mary 2 in the summer of 2011. For his junior year, Jimmy was selected as a Gluck Community Outreach participant. This program will support Jimmy in visiting and performing for senior centers throughout the NY metropolitan area. Summers of 2012 and 2013 Jimmy has been selected as a Jazz Mentor on drums at the Stanford Jazz Residency. Jimmy has just completed his3rd year at the Juilliard School.
Awards:
2012 - ASCAPLUS Award
2012-2013 - Stanford Jazz Mentor at the Stanford Jazz Workshop
2011- Gluck Community Fellowship at Juilliard
2011 - ASCAPLUS Award
2010 - ASCAPLUS Award
2010 - Finalist in the YoungArts NFAA ArtsWeek in Miami
2009 - SEIU Moe Foner Memorial Scholarship
2009 - Betty Carter Jazz Ahead
2009 - Ravinia Festival Steans Institute for Young Artists
2009 - Jazz Band of America
2009 - youngARTS NFAA Honorable Mention
2008 - Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. Performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam & the Monterey Jazz Festival
2008 - Honorable Mention in ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Award for Circuit
2008 - Colonist at the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony
2008 - Outstanding Soloist in Downbeat Student Music Awards
2008 - Semifinalist in ISC Songwriting Competition for Joe’s Lament for Big Band
2008 - Berklee School 5-Week Performance Program. Full Scholarship
2008 - Vail Jazz Workshop - Full Scholarship, Vail, CO
2007 - ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Award Winner for Tenure
2007 - Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Band Finalist
2007 - Scholarship to attend Berklee School’s 5 Week Performance Program
2006 - Scholarship to attend Skidmore Jazz Institute
2006 - "DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE 29th Annual Student music Award as Outstanding Soloist in H.S. Division
2006 - Full scholarship to attend Berklee School’s 5 Week Performance Program
2006 - ASCAP’s Young Jazz Composers Competition for Joe’s Lament, Honorable Mention
2005 - Semifinalist for ISC Songwriting Competition for Joe’s Lament
2005 - CT Music Educators Association Composition Festival Award
2004 - MODERN DRUMMER, “On The Move”, Featured in December, 2004 issue
2004 - DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE 27th Annual Student Music Award Winner Outstanding Jr. High Jazz Soloist
2004, 05, 06,07 - West Hartford Superintendent’s Award for Musical Accomplishment
2003 - DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE 26th Annual Student Music Award Outstanding Jr. High Performer
2003 - Percussive Arts Society Larrie Londin Memorial Scholarship Award
2003 - Percussive Arts Society PAS Scholarship to attend the PAS Convention in Louisville,KY
2000-2005 - Scholarship Awards for LITCHFIELD JAZZ SUMMER MUSIC SCHOOL
