<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:12pt;"><div> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt" size=5><EM><STRONG>NEWS RELEASE</STRONG></EM></FONT><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #8db3e2" color=#ffffff size=3><STRONG><BR></STRONG></FONT><BR>April 29, 2010<BR><BR><STRONG><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3>2010 ROBERTO OCASIO LATIN JAZZ CAMP LINKS MUSIC AND DANCE<BR>Bobby Sanabria, Artist-in-Residence<BR></FONT></STRONG><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> Cleveland, Ohio – The Roberto Ocasio Foundation today announced that student enrollment is underway for the sixth annual Roberto Ocasio Latin Jazz Music Camp, July 11-16, at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music </FONT><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(Berea/Cleveland, Ohio)</SPAN></I></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> under the direction of Artist-In-Residence, Bobby Sanabria, world renowned leader in the Latin and jazz fields as a multi-Grammy-nominated drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, bandleader, producer and educator.<SPAN> </SPAN>The resident camp is for music students in grades 8-12 (including 2010 graduates), all instruments—percussion (including Afro-Cuban and Brazilian), drum set, brass, woodwinds, piano, and all other instruments.<SPAN> </SPAN>The year’s camp is also open to middle and high-school students of dance to learn or expand Latin-dance skills under the instruction of Eileen Torres, internationally recognized salsa instructor, entertainer, producer, historian, and educator.<BR><SPAN> </SPAN>The music program includes the technical aspects of playing, composition, and improvisation in the various styles in Latin jazz, the history of the continuum, and analysis of the rhythmic aspects (in particular, la clave).<SPAN> </SPAN>Sanabria and faculty provide group and individual instruction, rehearsals, jam sessions, nightly music presentations, field trips, Latin-jazz activities, and a public recital concert.<SPAN> </SPAN>The Latin-dance curriculum, overlapping with selected classes in the music program, will include social and folkloric dances as well as a study of the evolution of Latin dance, its pioneers and masters.<SPAN> </SPAN>Prerequisite for both programs is middle-school-and-above levels of general music and dance background.<SPAN> </SPAN>Jazz and Latin-dance studies are not required but helpful.<SPAN> </SPAN>The week’s tuition ($550) covers all costs (instruction, materials, activities, room and board) excluding travel.<BR><SPAN> </SPAN>Application deadline is June 10 (tuition-discount deadline is extended to May 30).<SPAN> </SPAN>Time payment and sponsorship arrangements are available as well as limited scholarship and financial-assistance opportunities.<SPAN> </SPAN>Complete details and application forms are posted at robertoocasiofoundation.org or contact the RO Foundation at 440.572.2048 or trof@robertoocasiofoundation.org.</FONT><BR><BR><STRONG>Contact: Bev Montie<BR>The Roberto Ocasio Foundation<BR></STRONG>(robertoocasiofoundation.org)<BR>P.O. Box 81230<BR>Cleveland, OH 44181<BR>440.572.2048<BR>trof@robertoocasiofoundation.org<BR>__________<BR><BR><STRONG>Bobby Sanabria </STRONG>has performed with a veritable Who’s Who in the world of jazz and Latin music, as well as with his own critically acclaimed ensembles. His diverse recording and performing experience includes work with such legendary figures as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Candido, Paquito D’Rivera, Charles McPherson, Mongo Santamaria, Chico O’Farrill, Henry Threadgill, and the Father of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mario Bauzá. Featured on numerous Grammy-nominated albums, including The Mambo Kings soundtrack, Bobby’s own big-band CDs, “Big Band Urban Folktales” and “Afro-Cuban Dream,” were nominated for main-stream Grammys as Best Latin Jazz Album of 2007 and 2001, “Folktales” also winning the 2008 Jazz Journalists Association Award. Bobby was honored as “2005 Percussionist of the Year” by readers of DRUM! Magazine and has received recognition for his work in radio and television, including award-winning documentaries for PBS, BRAVO, and The Smithsonian. He was honored in 2006 with a permanent NYC street dedicated to him on the renowned Bronx Walk of Fame in recognition of his work and contributions that have made a difference throughout the world. Bobby is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and a recipient of its prestigious Faculty Association Award. A leader in the Afro-Cuban and jazz fields as both drummer and percussionist, he is considered one of the world’s foremost performers, educators and articulate scholars of la tradición. He is a professor at New York City’s famed New School University and the Manhattan School of Music in the jazz and contemporary music programs. His recording, “Kenya Revisited,” with the MSM Orchestra received a 2009 Latin Grammy® nomination. Bobby also writes for national publications, is a frequently featured guest on “NPR This Weekend,” and recently was a consultant and a featured artist in the four-part documentary, “Latin Music U.S.A.,” broadcast nationwide for PBS in fall 2009. Mr. Sanabria proudly endorses LP (Latin Percussion), Remo drum heads, Sabian cymbals, Tama drums, and Vic Firth sticks and mallets. <EM><A href="http://www.bobbysanabria.com/" target=_blank>www.bobbysanabria.com</A> <BR></EM><BR><STRONG>Eileen Torres</STRONG>. is an internationally recognized expert and prolific salsa historian, lecturer, teacher, and entertainer. Her varied audiences and clients include colleges and universities, corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and museums including the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, National Geographic, the Pentagon and more. Her work abroad has taken her to major festivals, from Washington, D.C. to Europe, and to salsa congresses, including the 2002 World Salsa Congress in Puerto Rico, where she won an Andy Award for her work as a historian and producer of salsa events. Graduating with a minor in dance from the University of Colorado, where she founded the University’s first “Ballet Folklorico,” led to years of teaching salsa, choreographing, and performing Latin dance and touring for two years with the National Chicano Dance Theatre prior to forming the performing group, Salseros Unlimited. A Lorain, Ohio, native, Eileen for the past twelve years, has been highly noted as a teacher and promoter of Latin dance in the Washington, D.C. area, also serving there as the ethnic dance instructor for the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. President of Salsation Productions and publisher of Salsacentro.com, a website dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of salsa music, Eileen writes for numerous national Latino publications and interacts with business, entertainment, sports, and grass-roots Latino leaders around the country. <BR><EM><A href="http://www.salsacentro.com/" target=_blank>www.salsacentro.com</A><BR></EM><BR><STRONG>The Roberto Ocasio Foundation </STRONG>was established in 2004 to perpetuate Roberto Ocasio’s music and to further his efforts on behalf of music education, diversity, and young people’s achievements. The Foundation provides a program of events and educational clinics, lectures and demonstrations throughout the year in honor of Roberto. Roberto’s lifetime of music began at the age of ten with later formal training in NYC and at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He performed locally and across the U.S., opening or sharing the stage with national artists and taking his talents to schools and colleges, teaching and strenuously promoting knowledge of Latin music and its roots. His award-winning band, The Roberto Ocasio Latin Jazz Project, established in 1997, achieved wide popularity throughout northeast Ohio and is continuing to perform Roberto’s legacy of original compositions. Roberto Ocasio passed away tragically on January 31, 2004. <A href="http://www.robertoocasiofoundation.org/" target=_blank><EM>www.robertoocasiofoundation.org</EM></A><BR><BR><STRONG>Baldwin-Wallace College</STRONG>, founded in 1845 by Methodist missionaries, enjoys a long and rich affiliation with the United Methodist Church. A merger of Baldwin University and German Wallace College in 1914 formed the present institution. The founders’ strong belief in equality made it one of the first colleges in the nation to accept students regardless of race or gender and provide non-segregated classes. As a preparatory college for pursuit of advanced degrees from leading institutions around the globe, B-W prepares students with a broad liberal arts tradition and focus on professional and career preparation. More than 50 academic majors include nine in its internationally respected Conservatory of Music, founded in 1899. The Conservatory’s celebrated century of excellence in music includes establishment in 1933 of the oldest collegiate Bach Festival in the nation. Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degree programs offer classical and jazz studies. With a long history of providing music workshops, camps, and training institutes on campus for high school and adult learners, the Conservatory also hosts outside music organizations in residence during the summer months. <A href="http://www.bw.edu/" target=_blank><EM>www.bw.edu</EM></A> <BR>
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