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Award-winning Stage Director, Producer, Administrator, and Educator Scott Skiba has led 100+ new productions for professional companies, international festivals, and graduate and undergraduate institutions and continues to earn recognition for his imaginative stage direction and dynamic physical approach to storytelling that is “masterful…ingenious…first-rate…vivid and emotionally charged.”  Skiba’s work is recognized with numerous awards from Opera America, The American Prize and The National Opera Association, and he has raised more than $1,000,000 in funds to support excellence in opera, the arts, and arts education.

Skiba serves as Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Opera Theater where his new production of La Traviata was named “the best professional opera production Cleveland has seen in years” and La Bohème – hailed as “Ingenious and talent rich” by the Plain Dealer.  Skiba is the recently appointed Production Director for Opera Western Reserve, and has made multiple company debuts in recent years including an award-winning production of Jake Heggie’s Two Remain (Lyric Opera of Orange County) Sweeney Todd (Helena Symphony Orchestra), Don Giovanni (Indianapolis Opera), Roméo et Juliette (Pensacola Opera), Macbeth (Opera Tampa), The Ballad of Baby Doe (Toledo Opera), Faust and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Natchez Festival of Music), The Student Prince (Opera Grand Rapids), Carmen (Opera Western Reserve), Suor Angelica and La Bohème (Mobile Opera), Don Giovanni, Carmen, Orpheus in The Underworld, Into The Woods, and L’incoronazione di Poppea (Hawaii Performing Arts Festival).

A proponent of developing new works, Skiba launched {NOW} Fest, an annual festival to create, develop, and produce new opera currently in residence with Cleveland Opera Theater.  He serves on the Chamber Opera Composition Committee for the National Opera Association (NOA), and he has collaborated on the development of 18 new

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This article originally appeared in the March 2020 issue of JazzEd Magazine.

Jazz is being performed all over the world in every kind of venue imaginable – jazz clubs, concert halls, festivals, universities, high schools, coffee shops, shopping malls, hotel lobbies, restaurants, art museums, and more. But who would have thought that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would be among them? Turns out that besides loving the music for the aesthetic enjoyment it provides, the FTC powers-that-be realize the important lessons in leadership that can be procured from jazz. With a mission of protecting the consumer via the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, monopolies, and false advertising–along with over 1,000 employees from investigators to attorneys to specialists in information technology, public affairs, financial management, and public policy–the FTC recognizes that effective leadership is paramount.

The FTC’s chief learning officer, Mark Kern, contacted me as the Commission was organizing a three-day Leadership Academy for their highest level employees. Apparently, there’s some infighting in Washington, D.C. these days (Really? I hadn’t heard!), including at some of our federal agencies, and Kern thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if the FTC ran more like a jazz group?” They were interested in, “learning from the jazz space how to build better coalitions and partnerships on teams in their space.”

This all came to fruition at the FTC Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where the Herbie Hancock Institute National Peer-to-Peer Jazz Quartet–comprising four of the most impressive high school jazz musicians in the country–along with renowned jazz trumpet recording artist Sean Jones and I presented a workshop entitled, Leadership Through the Jazz Paradigm.

After performing a couple of tunes,

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Michel Camilo – Live In London (Redondo Music): This is pianist Michel Camilo’s first live solo recording. Four of the seven pieces are originals and the covers include “The Frim Fram Sauce”, “Manteca” and a medley of “I Got Rhythm”, “Caravan” and “Sing, Sing, Sing”. He begins with “From Within” and the spirit and flow are fantastic. The performance is a tour de force from every perspective. Click here for an introduction by Camilo himself.

Eliana Cuevas – Golpes y Flores (ALMA): Eliana Cuevas is an accomplished vocalist and leader. She is dedicating this disc to the essentials of Venezuelan music. She is a native Venezuelan who has lived in Canada for some time, but still strives to spread appreciation of Venezuelan music. There is a huge set of musicians participating in this production, with plenty of percussion, bass and other stringed instruments like violin, viola, cello and a few reeds. To be sure, Cuevas’ singing is the the main focus and it is quite wonderful. Click here to check out an overview of this disc.

Marc Devine Trio – Inspiration (ITI): Pianist Marc Devine and his trio have a broad taste in music and a terrific connection to keeping jazz at the center of both pop and jazz compositions. The set includes jazz tunes like Hank Mobley’s “Soul Station” and Bud Powell’s “Hallucinations”, standards like Johnny Mercer’s “Dream” or pop tunes like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (Goffin-King) and “Love Me Tender” (Matson-Presley). Devine even adds one of his own compositions. The rhythm section includes Fukushi Tainaka (drums) and Hide Tanaka (bass) and the blend is truly wonderful. Click here and scroll down to listen to samples of the songs on this disc.

Kelly Green – Life Rearranged (Self-produced): Composer/pianist/singer Kelly Green explains and describes her new release: “This album is a story of my life through original compositions and arrangements of standards that s