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Jimmy Kachulis

 

Maestro

Jimmy Kachulis is an internationally recognized, award winning, Composer, Songwriter, Educator, Scholar and Performer. His composition career has run the gamut from Concert Music blending World Music and European forms, to Jazz, R&B, and Emmy Award winning TV shows. He has also performed and recorded with legendary Jazz, World Music, R&B, and Early Music artists.

Professor Kachulis has authored educational material for the world renowned Berklee College of Music, Berklee Online, Berklee Press, as well as Tufts University, The Boston Conservatory, and Emerson College. In his Ethnomusicological research, he has discovered previously unknown polyphonic, harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and structural aspects of traditional African music. In addition, he has studied many of the World's musics in depth.

 

Concert Music – Competition winner/finalist - recordings and performances
• Winner - N.E.O. Sound Composition Competition
• Finalist - Inspired by Beethoven - American Beethoven Society
• Finalist - Northern California Viola Society Composition Competition
• Winner - Fresh Voices XIX Contemporary Composition Competition
• Finalist - Sao Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival
• Winner - UPH Festival of Contemporary Music - Indonesia
• Winner - Charlotte New Music Festival
• Winner - VI Encontro Internacional de Cordas of the Symphonic Society of Limeira, Brazil
• Winner - International Trombone Festival
• Winner – Spectrum Festival for Orchestral Music - three times
• Winner - Otterbein Festival of Contemporary Music: Old Links To New Music
• Winner - International Society of Bassists - Composition Competition
• Finalist – Flute New Music Consortium Competition
• Finalist – Boston Ballet – Composer Choreographer Project
Empire Brass Quintet - Eight original pieces and transcriptions of Medieval and Renaissance music
Threeba – jazz group of noted Tuba virtuoso Sam Pilafian
SONY recording artist Nanae Mimaura - marimba – Bye Bye Brazil on SONY, International performances
Greek Suite - Israeli recorder virtuoso Daphna Mor
Refugee Songs from Asia Minor - Pharos Ensemble - Greek traditional ensemble - with String Orchestra
The Middle East - Concerto for Greek Lauto and String Orchestra

Jazz/Pop – Composer, Arranger, Producer, Conductor, Guitarist - sample recordings and worldwide performances
• John Lewis - Modern Jazz Quartet
• Jon Hendricks
• Martha Reeves - Motown
• Stuff - Warner Brothers
• George Coleman Octet - Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Max Roach
• Eric Gale Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Island Breeze - Electra Records
• Disney film Zapped
• TV: The Sopranos, Touched An Angel, JAG, The Young and the Restless, The Jamie Foxx Show

 Curriculum Developer/Educator/Author
Berklee College of Music - Developed the World Music and Songwriting curricula
Tufts University, The Boston Conservatory, Emerson College - Created courses in World Music and Culture
Berklee Online - Created curricula in Songwriting
Songwiter’s Workshop Series Hal Leonard Publishing

 Scholar
• Papers, lecture/demos presented - Ewe Harmony, Ewe Polyphony from Ghana, Multidimensional Rhythms of African Music, Raga and Tala concepts in North and South Indian Classical Music, Cultural Crossroad - Music of the Mediterranean
• World Music – (African) Godwin Agbeli, David Locke, (Indian) George Ruckert, Jerry Leake, Warren Senders, (Indonesian) Evan Ziporyn
• Jazz – George Coleman, Frank Foster, Don Sebesky
• Classical – Louise Talma

Vocalist
Sang Early Music with noted conductors Richard Taruskin, Russell Oberlin, Paul Maynard, Alexander Blachley, John Blackley, and Ralph Hunter