Marguerite JuenemannAddress Available apon Request
jaszpurr@mindspring.com
www.margueritejuenemann.com
www.jazzarts.org/juenemann.cfm
OBJECTIVE: Experienced performer and teacher (Jazz and Contemporary vocal styles) seeks position as private instructor and ensemble director, with vocal and instrumental emphasis
LIVE AND BROADCAST PERFORMANCE
1975-present. Began performing as singer/musician in 1975, various Denver-area venues. In 1978 founded jazz vocal groupRare Silk and maintained active group touring/performing schedule until 1983, have appeared as solo performer and guest with various other artists. Highlights as follows:
Regular public access radio show (This is Rare Silk) KGNU
Performed numerous venues Nationally and Internationally
USO tour of the Far East
Rare Silk opening act for Benny Goodman, Macky Auditorium, Boulder
Aurex Jazz Festival, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Japan
Carnegie Hall, NYC
Boston Symphony Hall, Boston Globe Jazz Festival
Chicago Jazz Festival
Solo Performance:
Music of Thelonius Monk (Naropa College, Boulder, CO) guest vocalist
Clearwater Jazz Fest, Clearwater, FL
Front act for BB King, Denver, CO
Clark Terry Jazz Fest, UNH, with Paul Broadnax Trio
Breckenridge Jazz Fest
Winter Park Jazz Fest
Duo performance with Bass Master, Richard Davis, UMA 1994
Reunion concert with Rare Silk Quartet, 1996
Performance with Lewis Porter, Rutgers University
Duo performance with Armen Donelian, Cleopatra's Needle, NYC
Concert Tour in Poland, Jazz Rondo Fest with Leszek Kulakoski Trio
Concert Tour in the UK and Austria, 1996, 1998
RECORDINGS
1974-present. Studio musician performing backup vocals for groups, overdubs, commercials, etc.
additional recordings as both contract and independent artist
Celestial Seasonings Tea commercial recordings
Rare Silk, New Weave (Polygram Records, 1983)
Limited Edition release Llve from the Aurex Jazz Festival: Benny Goodman & Rare Silk
Promotional Recording for Frontier Airlines The Other Side of the Bay
Solo CD: By Whose Standards (Juenetunes, 1994)
Solo CD: Night Wind: In the Spirit of Fats Waller (Juenetunes, 2001)
TEACHING/CLINIC EXPERIENCE
1986-pressent. Private instruction, clinics, adjunct and guest faculty positions, Artist-In-Residency positions
Concert/Clinic series, University of Maine at Augusta
Director, Vocal Jazz Department, University of Maine, Augusta, 1988-1997
Applied instruction, vocal and instrumental ensemble director
Adjudicator, MMEA All-State and Maine All-State
Guest conductor, UNH Vocal Jazz All-State Festival
Vocal Improvisation clinics: Rutgers University
University Of New Hampshire
University of Maine, Orono and various High Schools
Massachusettes MEA--guest clinician
Guest conductor original Don Stratton work,"PHUONG", MIA/KIA Viet Nam Memorial Concert, Performing Arts Center, Orono, ME
Maine State Jazz Canp, vocal instructor
Guest conductor, MMEA Honors Choir, Augusta, Maine All-State
Gifted and Talented Program, Improvisation with vocal emphasis, MSAD #16
Musical Director, Kennebec Valley Teen Theater Production of "Grease"
Director, Whitefield Grade School Chorus
Clinician, Hochschule fur Musik--LGraz, LAustria
Clinician, Leeds College of Music, Leeds, England
Faculty, 1998, Hochschule for Musik--Graz, Austria
Faculty 1997-2000 Lamont School of Music Jazz Program, Denver, CO
Guest Professor, New England Conservatory, 2000
Adjudicator: Greeley Jazz Fest, Metro Jazz Fest
AWARDS, COMPETITIONS, PUBLICATIONS
Grammy Award nominee, best new vocal jazz group (Rare Silk) 1984
Grammy Award nominee, best jazz vocal arrangement (Rare Silk) 1984
Winner, Elevox Open Jazz competition, solo performance, 1986
Downbeat Magazine Readers Poll: Winner, Talent Deserving Wider Recognition
Thelonius Monk Vocal Competition semi-finalist, 1999
Jazz Singing: The Singers and Their Styles Bruce Crowther and Mike Pinfold Blandford Press, 1997 UK
Open The Door: Betty Carter Biography William Bauer, University of Michigan Press, 2002
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ARTIST PROFILE
Marguerite Rose Juenemann
margueritejuenemann.com
marguerite@margueritejuenemann.com
www.jazzarts.org/juenemann.cfm
Marguerite Juenemann is much more than a Jazz singer. A dynamic performer, she can captivate an audience with her expressive solos. An experienced musician, she knows when and how to use her voice as an instrument within a group. Vocalist, lyricist and arranger, she is an emerging artist destined to leave her mark on the Jazz world.
Marguerite left New York in l988 after being offered an Artist-in Residence at the University of Maine in Augusta where she taught and directed the Vocal Jazz program until l997. This position has opened up other venues for her talents: conducting a vocal octet symphonic requiem for Viet Nam M.I.A/K.I.A at the Performing Arts Center in Bangor , Maine traveling throughout New England conducting clinics for high school and college students as well as Music Educators. Marguerite has also been a guest conductor for the New Hampshire All-State High School Honors Choirs and an adjudicator for the same. Concerts resulting from these endeavors include a performance with Jazz great Clark Terry.
Careful readers will recognize Marguerite's name from the 1983 Rare Silk, "New Weave" album, (Polygram). Attentive listeners will identify her rich contralto as that extra "something" in Rare Silk's vocal blend on that Grammy-nominated debut album. Marguerite was a founding member of the Boulder, Colorado-based group, originally a female trio who began singing together in 1978. The first milestone of their career was a 1980 series of concerts with the legendary Benny Goodman. Rare Silk sang with the King of Swing in such prestigious settings as Carnegie Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall, the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Aurex Jazz Festival in Japan.
National Public Radio broadcast the Boston concert nationwide, and the Goodman sets at the Aurex Festival became Rare Silk's first performance on disc, part of the Japanese import series, The Aurex Jazz Festival. On their own, Rare Silk toured Korea, the Philippines and the South Pacific, and gained national television exposure with an appearance on theMerv Griffin Show. Three years and many professional endorsements after their separation from Goodman, Rare Silk, now a mixed quartet, released "New Weave". A subsequent performance at Duke's Place in New Orleans became the subject of an hour-long television production for PBS. That program, nationally released November 2, 1984, features Marguerite as a soloist on her own arrangement of Miles Davis' Classic, "All Blues".
An enthusiastic experimenter in Bebop, she has written original lyrics to instrumental classics such as Davis' "So What" and a vocalese rendition of Wes Montgomery's guitar solo on "Whisper Not" by Benny Golson. Her offbeat 7/8 arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night In Tunisia" can set musicians and audiences alike on the edge of their seats.
Such talent should not go unnoticed, and in Marguerite's case, it hasn't. As a member of Rare Silk, she was often identified in the press as the group's lead singer. John S. Wilson of the New York Times made a special note of her "strong solo personality". In The Denver Post, Alan Katz describes her as.." a dominant presence with an individualistic, gutsy, experimental singing style". Denver TV newswoman Janet Zappala profiled Marguerite as a solo artist, concluding that she is not just a singer, but "a Jazz musician who sings"
The label fits, A multi-instrumentalist in high school, Marguerite was a singer/musician/arranger in three other groups and a session artist on three albums before forming Rare Silk. Eventually she focused her energies on one instrument--her voice. As a vocalist, she has performed with well-known Colorado artists Spike Robinson, Johnny Smith, Paul Warburton, Rich Chiaraluce, Eric Gunnison, Ron Miles, Art Lande , Gus Johnson, the list continues. Before leaving Rare Silk, Marguerite formed her own trio and secured a regular gig at one of Denver's most popular jazz clubs. She was also a featured soloist in a concert of Thelonius Monk's music at Naropa institute in Boulder.
As might be expected, Marguerite's fellow musicians are also appreciative of her exceptional skills and talent. Jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker calls her "a great competitor". Kellis Ethridge, guitarist, recording artist and Marguerite's collaborator for a year after her departure from Rare Silk, says this about her: "Marguerite is a musician. She understands things melodically, harmonically and rhythmically that most singers just don't pick up. Her scat is almost like working with a horn player."
1994 brought the release of her first CD, "By Whose Standards", followed by a duo performance with the legendary bassist Richard Davis. In June 2001, a second CD, "NightWind, In The spirit of Fats Waller" features Marguerite in a duo setting with World renowned pianist, Art Lande.
As a continuing educator, Marguerite went to Europe as a guest vocal clinician in Leeds, England, Krakow, Poland and Graz, Austria. While in Graz, Marguerite had the good fortune of sharing the stage at three of her concerts with Mark Murphy, Downbeat poll winner, 1997, before heading back to London for one final concert. 1998 found Marguerite teaching part of the year in Graz, also Lamont School of Music in Denver and Naropa University in Boulder. March through May, 2000, she was a guest professor at New England Conservatory of Music.
Now truly a solo artist, Marguerite brings to her listeners and to her musical peers a background of rich experience, and uncompromising commitment to quality, and a unique approach that sets her apart as a vocal instrumentalist. She says, " I want the music to reach a wide audience, that entertains but also challenges people to hear the human voice as a musical instrument, rather than only as a vehicle for melody and lyrics." Her past record gives every reason to expect that she will continue to achieve her professional goals.