Fred Hughes: Founder and President Seeing a need for greater access to jazz for students and families of the DelMarVa Peninsula, Fred founded Jazz Alive in 2019. An internationally acclaimed jazz pianist with over four decades of performing and teaching experience, Fred has created highly successful master classes and school residencies including revamping Capital Jazz, a middle school residency program. In his role as lead teaching artist, Fred crafted a program that not only presented jazz to District of Columbia middle school students, but created a course for teaching them the art of playing and improvising on popular jazz repertoire. Fred is excited to bring this uniquely American art form to the stages and classrooms of the DelMarVa Peninsula. 