Jazz students at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Half-Day Program spent the afternoon with recording artist and Academy Alum, Jimmy Greene. On December 21, 2022, music students at the Academy participated in a master class in jazz performance presented by Greene.

The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Half-day Program added a new experience to the performance line-up: “Academy Pops” debuted on Friday December 9th to a theater of modern music fans. The performance celebrated the music of Paramore, Adele, Carrie Underwood, Billie Elish, among others. The idea for the show was the brain child of Artist-Instructor Calvin Linderman, who arranged all the pieces. Instruments included drums, electric guitars, bass, and synthesizer, along with lead and back-up vocals.

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Half-day Theater major, Tovah Oslovich, won the 2022 Renee Duke Youth Award Poetry Contest sponsored by Poets for Human Rights. Tovah was notified on Saturday, the 74th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Jazmine Rush, Academy Class of ‘13, is currently working in Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre performing in Stew. The production, written by Zora Howard, is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and, most recently, was nominated for a Jeff Award, an honor given in Chicago for excellence in theater.