MURIEL BOWSER
MAYOR
January 31, 2024
‘The Honorable Phil Mendelson
Chairman
Councilofthe District of Columbia
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue. NW, Suite 504
Washington, DC20004
Dear Chairman Mendelson’
In accordance with section 2 of the Contirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C, Law 2-
142; D.C. Official Code § 1-523.01), and pursuant to section 4 of the Commission on the Arts and
Humanities Act, effective October 21, 1975 (D.C. Law 1-22; D.C, Official Code § 39-203), Tam
pleased to nominate the following individual:
Ms. Amy K. Bormet
North Carolina Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(Ward 7)
for appointment as a member with specific interest, ability, or experience in theatre and performing
arts of the Commission on the Arts and Humanities, filling a vacant seat formerly held by Derek
Younger, for a term to end June 30, 2025.
Enclosed, you will find biographical information detailing the experienceof the above-mentioned
nominee, together with a proposed resolution to assist the Council during the confirmation process.
I would appreciate the Council's earliest consideration of this nomination for confirmation, Please
do not hesitate to contact Steven Walker, Director, Mayor's Office of Talent and Appointments,
should the Council require additional information.
Sinegyely.
Murif! Bowker
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6 A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
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15 To confirm the appointment of Amy K. Bormet to the Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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17 RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, that this
18 resolution may be cited as the "Commission on the Arts and Humanities Arny K. Bormet
19 Confirmation Resolution of 2024".
20 Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the appointment of:
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22 Ms. Amy K. Bormet
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27 as a member with specific interest, ability, or experience in theatre and performing arts of the
28 Commission on the A11s and Humanities, established by section 4 of the Commission on the Arts
29 and Humanities Act, effective October 21, 1975 (D.C. Law 1-22; D.C. Official Code § 39-203),
30 filling a vacant seat formerly held by Derek Younger, for a term to end June 30, 2025 .
31 Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution,
32 upon its adoption, to the nominee and to the Office of the Mayor.
33 Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
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As a performer, educator, and arts leader, Amy tours the US, Europe, South America, and Asia.
She is a frequent artist-in-residence for international and national programs. As an advocate for
women musicians, Amy created the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011, and presented
the 13th annual festival in March 2023. She released her most recent album, Tell Me What It's
Like, to critical acclaim on her label Strange Woman Records in May 2022. Her project AmyAna,
co-led with drummer Ana Barreiro, toured Brazil in 2019, and won a national grant to tour the
US in 2022. Amy is the chair of the alumni board at University of Michigan School of Music,
Theater, and Dance where she studied with Geri Allen, and a proud graduate of DC’s Duke
Ellington School of the Arts and Howard University. For more information visit: amykbormet.com
Education
Howard University: Master of Fine Arts, Jazz Studies/Piano
® University of Michigan: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Jazz Studies/Piano, cum laude
Duke Ellington School of the Arts: Arts Diploma, Instrumental Music
Washington Women in Jazz
Founder, General Manager, and Artistic Director, Washinaton Women in Jazz,
including annual Washington Women in Jazz Festival every March, 2011-present
© Creator/Producer/Host, annual Washington Women in Jazz Emerging Artist
Showcase for college women and non-binary musicians, 2012-current
© Director/Producer/Bandleader for On Deck: Women Shredding through
Boundaries, multi-day festival in partnership with SpacyCloud at the John F.
Kennedy Center, 2021
 Collaboration with Patricia Lopez, saxophonist and director of Mujeres de Jazz
en IberoAmérica, including jam sessions, workshops, and concerts at
Washington Women in Jazz Festival, 2022
© Multi-concert collaboration with Mujeres de Jazz en IberoAmérica (South
‘American Women in Jazz) for Washington Women in Jazz virtual festival, 2021
© Director/Host/Performer, Kennedy Center Couch Concerts, virtual concert series
with Washington Women in Jazz, 2020
© Creator/Producer/PerformerofWashington Women in Jazz Summer Vocal
Summit: collaboration with six DC area jazz vocalists and the Amy K Bormet Trio,
2017
Women in Jazz Exchange concert: featuring Washington Women in Jazz and
Austrian Cultural Forum with Austrian bassist Judith Ferstl, 2017
Women in Jazz Exchange: Creator/Director/Bandleader, Washington Women in
Jazz and Women in Jazz Swedentour with Amy K Bormet's Ephemera; concerts,
workshops on music and gender, masterclasses in performance at Swedish
schools—including Gothenburg University, 2016
© Creator/Producer/Lecturer/Bandleader, Women in Jazz Day at the House of
‘Sweden: panel of Swedish and American musicians and academics, concert with
new compositions from women in Sweden and Amy K Bormet's Ephemera, 2016
Arts Leader
‘© Co-owner/producer/recording artist: Strange Woman Records, 2019-current
‘© Music Director: world premiere of Beastgirl (Helen Hayes nominated musical
based on poetry of Elizabeth Acevedo) at the John F. Kennedy Center,
2021-2022
Producer/arranger/manager: studio tracks for Beastgir!
Jazz Stories WPFW: host/producer for live 2 hour radio show with interviews and
music, 2018-2021
Jazz Congress, Mentoring Women in Jazz: panel discussion with Dee Dee
Bridgewater (WBGO, Jazz Night in America), 2021
Levine Jazz Fest: Women in Jazz Education, panel discussion
Smithsonian American History Museum Women in Jazz Initiative, 2020-current
DC Jazz Festival panelist, Jazz and Gender. with Terri Lyne Carrington
HillFest panelist: Women in Jazz, 2019
National Endowment of the Arts: Major Jazz Funding Grant Panelist, 2018, 2020
Performance
Recent Performances and Projects
© Blues Alley Artist Residency, 4 different concerts in March 2023
¢ Washington Women in Jazz 2023, 13 performances
 Intersections Festival 2023, with Celestial Spang-A-Lang
AmyAna tour. multiple venues, with Brazilian drummer Ana Barreiro, awarded a
Jazz Road Grant (South Arts/Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) for tour support,
March 2022.
Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts: Amy K Bormet Trio, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin
Islands (Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Touring Grant Award), May 2022
Arts Summit atthe John F. Kennedy Center. bandleader, songwriter, performer of
anew anthem, May 2022
Blues Alley. Amy K Bormet Trio, May 2022
Jazz For Justice Festival: Amy K Bormet Trio, June 2022
Smithsonian Associates Concert, Women in Jazz: On and Off the Concert Stage:
Live Video Recording with Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, original
composition, “Santa Ana Slip," June 2022
DC Music Summit Gala performance: Amy K Bormet Trio, March 2022
Arts Summit at the John F. Kennedy Center. Keynote performer with Amy K
Bormet's Ephemera, 2019
Arts Summit at the John F. Kennedy Center. Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead Alumni
Trio, “Deconstructed Anthems," a piece by Ekene ljeoma, 2018
DC Jazz Festival: Amy K Bormet Trio, John F. Kennedy Center, 2019
The Mayor's Inaugural Ball: Solo performance of “Let's Make a Change”, New
Year's Eve 2022
Davies Concert Series: Amy K Bormet Trio, Camp Springs, MD, February 2022
Eliza Tebo EP: Producer, Music Director, Strange Woman Records, 2022
We Are All Connected: create and perform music for Mo Willems - large-scale
public art playscape, Kennedy Center, 2021
Blues Alley, four nights on piano and accordion with Dave Kline, violinist, 2021
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Spotlight Series: featured artist, 2021
Jazz at the Kreeger, duo performance for Kreger Museum concert series, 2021
Montpelier Jazz Series: with Leigh Pilzer (saxophone), 2021, 2022
Austrian Embassy Concert series: with Amy K Bormet Trio, 2020
Blue Whale Jazz Club: co-leader AmyAna jazz quintet, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Sam First Jazz Club: co-leader AmyAna jazz quintet, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Multi-city Tour of Brazit: AmyAna, co-leader, 2019
Porto de Barra Jazz Festival: Amy K Bormet Quartet, Salvador, Brazil, 2019
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Luce Unplugged, 2016, 2019
Keystone Korner. Baltimore, 2019
National Leagueof American Pen Women: Concert Series, 2018, 2019
DCJaz Prix: Pearl Street Warehouse, AmyAna jazz quintet, 2019
We Create Jazz Festival: Amy K Bormet Trio, Cincinnati, OH 2019
Live at Five: Amy K Bormet Trio, WPFW FM concert, 2019
Women in Jazz Jam Festival: Amy K Bormet Trio, Knoxville, TN, 2019
Phillips Collection: Concert Series, 2019
HillFest. Amy K Bormet Trio, 2018,
 «Intersections Festival: the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC, Amy K
Bormet's Ephemera and Capital City Symphony, commissioned to compose
three pieces for symphony and jazz quartet, March 2018
Recordings as Bandleader
Tell Me What It’s Like: compositions for solo piano and voice, Strange Woman
Records, Blues Alley CD Release party, May 2022
‘AmyAna: Jazz Quintet, Strange Woman Records, 2019
Open Secrets, The Harold Trio: Strange Woman Records, 2019
The Harold Trio: Edgetone Records, 2016
Sad Songs: AmyK Bormet, Strange Woman Records, 2015
Striking: Amy K Bormet, self-released, 2011
Residencies
«Amy K Bormet Trio at Caribbean Center for the Arts in St. Croix USVI: granted
funds by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, May 2022
‘© Workshop, Concert, and Lecture in Jazz History, residency at Georgetown
University, March 2022
Arts Club of Washington DC: Artist-in-Residence, 2022-23
202Creates (Mayor's office) Creative Entrepreneur Residency, Winter 2022
CapitalBop Residency Concert and Video Recording, March 2022
John F. Kennedy Center, Doodle Jam: collaboration with Educator-in-Residence,
Mo Willems, an improvised musiceventwith live artmaking, 2018-2020
Thailand International Jazz Conference (Multiple concerts and workshops)
Bangkok, 2020
Songwriter-in-Residence at Craft in America Concert Series, Beverly Hills, CA,
semi-annual concerts of new songwriting, 2014-present
American Composers Orchestra: Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, 2015
Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency at the Kennedy Center, 2010
Mary Lou Williams Emerging Artist Residency at the Kennedy Center, 2010
Banaras Hindu University, Summer Hindustani Vocal Study, India, 2005
Recent Grants
* DC Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program, 2022
South Arts and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Jazz Road Tour Support,
2019-2022
© Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Performance Tour Support, 2022
Notable Multimedia Works and Commissions
© Composer, four works forjazz orchestra and choir at Shepherd University
 Composer/music director/music supervisor, The Beauty in Trying film
2020-current
Composer and Performer, three pieces for Symphony and Jazz Quintet, Capital
City Symphony, 2018
Composer, Callaloo, audio book by Marjuan Canady, 2015
Composer, Girls? Girls! Girls. Documentary by Marjuan Canady, 2017
Resident Composer for Aural Stage Studios: Audio drama series, 2013-current
Resident Composer, Together in Music: For Venezuela (Four Chamber Ensemble
Concerts), 2017-2020
Composer, multiple audio books and puppetry videos for children’s author Mary
Amato, 2018-2021
Music Education
University of Michigan: Schoolof Music, Theatre, and Dance, Alumni Board
Chair, Current (Vice-Chair, 2018-2021)
Washington Jazz Arts Institute: mentor/educator, 2005-Current
EI Camino College: jazz improvisation instructor, combo instructor, adjunct
professor, 2013-2018
Recording Academy: mentor, Grammy U, Current
Woodshed Network (Dee Dee Bridgewater), mentor for women jazz musicians,
2023
Caribbean Museum Center: music workshops for St. Croix High Schools, May
2022
202Creates, DC Mayor's Office: business mentor, 2022
Los Angeles City College: Music Advisory Board Member, 2017-2022
National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in your community: advisory board member
John F. Kennedy Center: Young Associates Studio Production Masterclass, 2021
John F. Kennedy Center: Moonshot studio, create educational video content,
2020
University of Michigan EXCEL program (Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career
Empowerment and Leadership) Virtual Visionaries: Creating Community,
workshop and essay, 2020
Washington Performing Arts Society: weekly Artist-in-Residence for
Stuart-Hobson Middle School with “Jazz in The Schools”, 2018-2020
Songwriting Performance Workshop: Los Angeles City College, 2020
Herbie Hancock Institute: jazz masterclass at Wilson High School, 2020
John Hopkins, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute: Lecturer, 2019
Gender Equity and Music Masterclass at University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and
several folk schools on the west coast of Sweden, 2016
Entrepreneurship in Jazz Masterclass at Howard University, 2015
St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School: Lecturer, Colloquium for the Common Good
 Kultur i Vast (Culture in the West) Sweden: EQUITY NOW! Gender in music
conference spotlight lecturer, 2015
Memberships and Affiliations
Recording Academy, voting member and Grammy U Mentor
Musician's Union Local 161-710
Jazz Education Network
Chamber Music America
DC Music Summit
DC Music Stakeholders
Arts Club of Washington, DC
Music Worker's Alliance
Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW)
Ampled Music Workers Co-op
ASCAP.
Women in Jazz Organization
Women in Jazz, South Florida
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Amy K. Bormet
Ms, Amy K Bormet is a pianist, vocalist, and composer, known for her
fearless free-wheeling style and dedication to creating new music. To
collaborate with and celebrate women musicians, she started the annual
Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011, directing, financing, and
performing in an annual festival and women-focused events throughout
the year in the DC area.
She has formed several ensembles to perform and record her
compositions. Los Angeles-based quintet, AmyAna, co-led with
Brazilian drummer Ana Barreiro, released their debut album in 2019,
and performed an east coast tour in October 2021. The Harold Trio, an
instant composition ensemble with Tina Raymond, drums and Biggi Vinkeloe, saxophone/flute,
released their second album, Open Secrets, in 2019. Her quintet, Ephemera, a project of women’s
poetry and improvisation, performed a two-week tour ofSweden. Currently she tours and performs
her songs with the Amy K Bormet Trio, and No Trick Pony.
Amy’s recordings are available through Strange Woman Records, which she co-owns with
guitarist/producer and husband Dr. Matt Dievendorf.
As an educator and a mentor, Amy K Bormet amplifies her performance tours with outreach
masterclasses and residencies, recently at the Thailand International Jazz Conference (Mahidol
University, January 2020), Los Angeles City College (February 2020), the Caribbean Museum
Center for the Arts (May 2022), and Shepherd University (Jan 2023). She is a teaching artist,
collaborating with the Kennedy Center’s newest programming at the REACH to present and
perform with her all-women trio “the future ofjazz is female” for middle school students.
She continues to serve as a mentor for GrammyU, 202creates, and the summer program for the
Washington Jazz Arts Institute, where she has participated since she was a high school student at
Duke Ellington Schoolofthe Arts. She chairs the alumni boardofthe University of Michigan
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
As her performance career develops, Amy focuses more on presenting her compositions. She
began to write orchestral music in 2013 as a part of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Institute
(American Composer’s Orchestra) and premiered several new pieces with her quartet and the
Capital City Symphony in February 2017. Her trio and string quartet debuted two sets of new
music at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in March 2016. She wrote and performed music
for two residencies at the Kennedy Center; Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead for composer/performers
and the Mary Lou Williams Emerging Artist Showcase.
‘A Ward 7 resident, Ms. Bormet earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz Studies Piano
Performance from the University of Michigan and her Master of Fine Arts in Jazz Studies from
Howard University.
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 GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Executive Office ofMayor Muriel Bowser
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WE ARE
WASHINGTON
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Office of the General Counsel to the Mayor
To: Tomas Talamante, Steve Walker
From: Betsy Cavendish
Date: January 11,2024
Subject: Legal sufficiency review of Resolutions nominating Amy Bormet, Demetrius
Butler, and Janice Kim as members of the Commission on the Arts and
Humanities
This is to Certifythat this office has reviewed the above-referenced resolutions and
found them to be legally unobjectionable. If you have any questions in this regard, please do not
hesitate to call Erika Satterlee, Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office of the Mayor, at 202-
724-1303, or me at 202-724-7681.
Legrer-A Gente
Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Cavendish
The JohnA. WilsonBuilding» 1350 PennsyivaniaAvenue,NW > Suie300” > Washingion,
DC 20008 + Office 202) 724-7081