Services Composing & Arranging My credentials include many areas from art song to pop. Do you write lyrics? Want to collaborate? Do you have “unfinished songs” that need development? Do you have a great melody, hook and lyrics but lack harmonic structure or form? Do you need to have your song produced in a demo format for submission to publishing companies, record labels or independent A & R firms? Are you looking for a vocal jazz SATB arrangement of a standard or an original jazz song you would like to have arranged? These are some of the services that I can provide. I have published works with UNC Jazz Press, Oregon Catholic Press and an original catalog of songs under my own publishing banner. I would love to have the opportunity to write a commissioned work for your middle school, high school or college level vocal jazz group. Let’s talk! DiCosmic Publishing In recent years, it has become apparent that “specialty” publishing deals bring a rather dismal rate of return percentage wise to the author of such works. For this reason, I have established my own publishing company for the purpose of marketing and promoting my original vocal jazz and jazz show choir charts with rhythm section. Coming January, 2009 a catalog of PDF samples with audio tracks will be made available on this site for your viewing/listening including pricing and on-line ordering. Keeping the publishing “in-house” will provide you with highly competitive rates. Clinics/Workshops, Adjudication, Lectures I am an ASCAP composer, ASCAPlus Award recipient, IAJE clinician, member of the American Federation of Musicians and have been a full time professor since 2001 and recently named Chair of the Music Industry program at Syracuse University. I am available to provide your school, library, college, senior group or music festival with any number of services. I have presented for MENC, NYSSMA, NYSACMP and for Syracuse area schools, Rochester, Buffalo and as far away as Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. The areas I have presented are: Clinics/Workshops: Jazz Improvisation, Vocal Jazz Arranging, Vocal Jazz Improvisation, Original Vocal Jazz Chart Reading Sessions, Jazz Lead Sheet Reading, Building an accompaniment from a lead sheet, Rhythm Section Skills, Advanced Chord Voicings for the Jazz Pianist, Song writing, Scholastic Jam Sessions. Piano Accompanist for All-County Vocal Jazz Ensembles performances. Adjudication: Scholastic Adjudication for middle school and high school instrumental and vocal jazz groups in conjunction with the IAJE. Prior adjudications at Syracuse Jazz Festival, Detroit International Jazz Festival. Lectures: “Looking at Jazz – America’s Art form” – a series of lectures, films and concerts on the history of jazz. Awarded a grant through the American Library Association, ReNew Media and Lincoln Center Jazz, “The Recording Industry in the 21st Century – will the dinosaurs survive?” “Careers in the Music Industry – then and now”, “The Independent Music Scene – Marketing Your Own Band & Music”, “The Current State of the Music Industry – Discussion and Projections”, “Digital Audio Recording Using Protools”, “Copyright, Intellectual Property, Infringement and Piracy”.

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