High School – Collegiate Series: The Jazz Workshop Orchestra | Oct 11

Tune in to KUVO on Tuesday, October 11, 7pm for our High School / Collegiate Series live performance — The Jazz Workshop Orchestra in the Phyllis A. Greer Performance Studio. Hosted by Rodney Frank on Into the Evening.

Studio Club Members: Please contact Arvida arvida@kuvo.org to reserve seats for YOU and a guest!

Band Personnel-Fall 2016 – Under the direction of Joshua Quinlan

Trumpets: John Bickle, Emily Hanson, Camille DeHerrera, Simone Hammett-Lynch

Saxes: Chris Ferrari, Quinn Argent, Diego Gonzales, Aleah Traylor, Sam Hostetter

Trombones: Sam Keedy, Alison Orthel, Jack Bendure

Rhythm: Drums: Julian Archer, Aleks Girshevich, Piano: Max Moore, Bass: Gabe Rupe, Guitar: Liam Broderick, Liam Hughes-Butler, Vibes: Alec Streete, Zach Bahn

 

Denver School of the Arts is a 6-12 grade magnet school for the arts serving the greater Denver area for 25 years. Band majors at the school participate in Concert Band (6-8th grades) or Wind Ensemble (9-12 grades) and are encouraged to take either jazz or chamber music as well. The Jazz Workshop Orchestra features dedicated young jazz artists, many of whom want to pursue performance careers. This year the ensemble will perform at the esteemed MidWest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL  The ensemble has received Downbeat Magazine’s Best Big Band (Art School Category) award for several recent years and performed as finalists in the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition in New York, NY and in the Swing Central Jazz Competition in Savannah, GA. Graduates of the ensemble have gone on to perform in the Grammy Band, Next Generation Jazz Band, Brubeck Institute, Thelonious Monk Institute, and the Vail Jazz Workshop.  The jazz program at Denver School of the Arts employs local jazz artists on a regular basis and visiting national Jazz artists every year including Terell Stafford, Greg Osby, Melissa Aldona, Javon Jackson, Ron Miles, Jovino Santos Neto and many others.