Recently JAS partnered with the Jake Foerster Music Arts Fund (JFMAF)  to increase awareness and reach of the existing JFMAF Scholarship Fund. To date JFMAF has awarded over $40,000 in scholarships to 13 students from Basalt and Aspen High Schools. In an effort to reach more students and expand the program to both Carbondale and

Five local music students are the benefactors of scholarships from Jazz Aspen Snowmass allowing them to attend prestigious summer music camps for advanced studies. Liam Laird and Renee Bruell, both from Roaring Fork High School, along with Joseph Thompson from Coal Ridge High School have been accepted to attend the Berklee Five Week Music Intensive program at Berklee College of Music

JAS Summer Camps 2019 are now open for registration! The JAS Summer Camps are designed for middle and high school music students. The camps provide direct music instruciton from professional musicians, including private lessons and group workshops as well as live performance elements. JAS Summer Camps are led by JAS In-Schools Program Director, Chris

Carbondale is known as an incubator for artists and musicians with young talent emerging this time from the middle school band: two flautists Bailey Griebel and Samantha Anderson. Both students joined our new Local Education Initiative, New Year, New Sound to set intentions and improve their musicality this year. JAS funded three private lessons for each