CURRENT STUDENTS: The main educational & ensemble program for area music students in grades 8-12 will resume in November 2025 (when auditions take place) and December 2025 (when rehearsals start). Notices​​​​​​​​​ regarding the upcoming season will go out to area music educators and their music students in late August. We hope you will consider joining the VJC for its 10th anniversary season in 2025-26!
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​​EDUCATORS: Check out the Flexible Instrumentation Big Band charts from VJC Publications. And hear this great new music on our YouTube channel. VJC Publications offers flex. charts without compromise, designed to sound great—and complete—​with just the minimum instrumentation (11 pieces). And of course, they sound truly spectacular with a full, 18-piece big band. Given the unpredictable nature of band program size from year to year, VJC Publications represents a great investment for any music library.
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Please note that 100% of every VJC Publication purchase goes back into supporting the educational activities of the Valley Jazz Cooperative.
SERVICE

Reaching Our Community
In developing the Valley Jazz Cooperative, there has been a strong sense that service to others should guide many of the choices we make. In fact, that’s one reason why Valley Jazz Cooperative ensembles are offered free of charge to participants. But beyond the educational needs of young musicians, there are other individuals and groups who could use even more meaningful assistance, both those within our community and from elsewhere.
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Through its ongoing partnerships with area outreach and charitable organizations, MSW Ministries (the parent organization to the Valley Jazz Cooperative), offers assistance, guidance, and encouragement to individuals in great need. If you have interest in exploring collaborative opportunities with VJC that can help enrich the lives of people in our own community or elsewhere, please contact Russell Schmidt. Whether it be through a benefit concert, coordinated school service projects, or some other venture, the VJC is listening. And we hope to make our corner of the world a better place, through education, through music, and through service to our community.