Elefante School for the Performing Arts
Arts and Crafts - New Providence, NJ, US
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Artistic Director - Joe ElefanteJoe has been musical director, conductor and keyboardist for "Jersey Boys" at the August Wilson Theater on Broadway, the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, Plays in the Park in Edison, NJ, and dozens of other theaters and schools. He has been on the faculty of the Paper Mill's Summer Conservatory, the NJPAC Jazz for Teens program, and Centenary College's Young Performer's Workshop.His big band has been featured on ABC's "Nightline," The Fine Living Network, BigBandJazz.Com, and AllAboutJazz.Com, and in "The Wall Street Journal," "The Star Ledger," and "Jazz Improv" magazine. At only nineteen years old he was musical director for a professional production of "Me and My Girl" at the Williams Center for the Arts in Rutherford, NJ.At age eighteen, he composed and recorded a full-length musical, "A Paris Affair," and has since written compositions for big band, small groups, pop/rock bands, and chamber ensembles. His big band arrangement of "You're My Everything" was recorded by the New Jersey City University Jazz Ensemble on their release Wrappin' It Up. Renowned jazz vocalist Jon Hendricks commissioned Joe to create big band arrangement of "New Rhumba," and vocalist Rosanna Vitro commissioned two orchestral arrangements for a concert with the Mirabur Philharmonic in Slovenia.In 2001, Joe was accepted to the prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, DC. Later that year, he was accepted to the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in New York City. In 2004 Joe joined Roseanna Vitro and her Trio as a Jazz Ambassador by the Kennedy Center and the U.S. State Dept and toured Eastern Europe. As a performer, Joe has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.For more information on Joe visit his website at www.joeelefante.com.
