Dr. Bersh established and hosted an Essentially Ellington Regional Jazz Festival in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Across five years of hosting, the festival featured The U.S. Army Blues, The Airmen of Note, and guest artists and clinicians such as Ron Carter, Alan Baylock, Terrell Stafford, James Chirillo, Julius Tolentino, Jim Gasior, Tatum Greenblatt, Bob Stewart, Justin DiCioccio
2014 Festival
This video includes highlights of the inaugural festival.