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Follow on Google News | Innovative Pianist Jade Simmons aims to move from the Concert Stage to the Small ScreenClassical Pianist & Former First Runner-up to Miss America vies for chance to compete for her own show on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network. Oprah & Mark Burnett (creator of Survivor) are looking for the next big tv star and Jade just might be it!
By: Jade Media The Houston-based pianist is competing for the chance to have her own television show on the new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) set to debut in 2011. Teaming up with Mark Burnett, creator of the hit reality series Survivor, Oprah has created Your OWN Show in search of the "next big tv star". And Simmons happens to believe she's that person. If this budding media mogul gets her way, she'll have a TALK/VARIETY/ No stranger to championing emerging artists, Simmons is the Founder of The Impulse Artist Series (Best Non-Profit Arts Series 2009, Houston Press) which annually provides performance opportunities and career building assistance to 4 deserving international concert artists and she produces a weekly video series on YouTube called Emerge Already: Tips to Lessen the Plight of the Aspiring Concert Artist. She also tweets and blogs on the same subject. As she preps for competition, Jade will call on her intense on-air experience as the Van Cliburn Piano Competition's first-ever webcast host. For seven hours a day for almost 3 weeks straight, she commentated on performances, introduced segments and interviewed leading figures including veteran journalist Bob Schieffer and Van Cliburn himself for the world-famous competition. Jade expects that coupling that training with years of experience as a concert artist, a public speaker/spokesperson and the pressure cooker experience of the Miss America Pageant should put her in a place to be highly competitive on the show. As an African-American, female Classical pianist who performs repertoire from the classics to the cutting-edge, Simmons is used to smashing stereotypes, mixing things up and wowing audiences. She looks to bring that same spirit to television should she win the coveted prize on Your OWN Show. How You Can Help? Join Jade's OWN Team! Jade is looking to the city of Houston and the rest of the nation to help her garner enough votes to put her audition video in one of the top 5 spots on the OWN website. This guarantees her a trip to the finals to vie for a spot on the reality show set to tape in the Fall. No stranger to competition, Simmons will also be auditioning in person in June in Dallas. There are no limits on how many times one can vote so Jade invites Houstonians to vote early and often at: http://myown.oprah.com/ For more info on Jade Simmons please visit: www.jademedia.org # # # Jade Media is the umbrella organization for the artistic endeavors and projects of pianist Jade Simmons. End
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