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ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards 2004/2005
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18, Santa Cruz, CA
Pianist Pascal Le Boeuf is currently a student in jazz performance and composition at the Manhattan School of Music. In the past few years he has earned recognition both internationally and on the California Central Coast for performance and composition. He was among the five jazz students chosen for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) Clifford Brown-Stan Getz Fellows, part of the 125 ARTS Week finalists chosen from among over 6500 applicants. He was alo a member of the 2004 High School Grammy Ensembles and has performed with Chick Corea, Kurt Elling, Clark Terry, Gerald Wilson, John Benitez, Ann Hampton Calloway, Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Regina Carter, Dave Koz, Eric Marienthal, David "Fat Head" Newman, and Chris Potter.
Pascal was awarded the ASCAP-IAJE Commission in Honor of Quincy Jones for Emerging Composers under the age of 35; he was the youngest artist to win this honor. His composition, a suite entitled "Where There's Smoke," premiered at the IAJE Conference in New York, January 2004, and his group which included his twin brother, Remy, Chris Potter, Jon Benitez, and Marcus Gilmore, received a standing ovation. He was recognized in the DownBeat Magazine Student Music Awards in 2003 and 2004 as a winner and an outstanding performer both individually and with his combo, "Deuces Wild," for performance and for composition. In 2004 his combo won the Blues/Pop/Rock category and he and his brother, Remy, were designated soloist co-winners. His quintet, playing his original compositions, won the 2004 Monterey Jazz Festival H.S. Combo Competition.
Pascal and Remy were among 22 winners nationally of ASCAP's Young Jazz Composer Awards for musicians under 30 and were the two selected to play original compositions on the bill with Marian McPartland at the awards ceremony at ASCAP in New York. His compositions have been played by New Music Works Sound Horizons, as winner of Cal-Poly's All-State Jazz Festival Solo Competition, during his tenure at the 2003 Brubeck Institute Summer Colony.
Pascal was a finalist and semi-finalist in the 2004 International Songwriter's Competition and is currently a finalist in the 2005 competition with two selections. He has played with several different groups at jazz festivals in Japan, Ottawa and Montreal. His combo has appeared at numerous California Central Coast venues, most notably the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco and Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz. Pascal is currently developing his musical skills under the direction of Kenny Barron and Mike Abene in New York. Pascal's second CD of original compositions will be released in winter 2005.
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