KUVO Studio Club: High School / Collegiate Series – Lamont Jazz Orchestra | Mar 28

KUVO Studio Club welcomes the Lamont Jazz Orchestra for a live performance on Wednesday, March 28 from 7 to 8pm. The University of Denver’s Lamont Jazz Orchestra has won the top award at the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in a tie with Central Oklahoma University. Lamont soloists, Dylan Vessel, trumpet and Matt Campbell, drums won two of the four Judges Soloist Awards!

The Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver is widely recognized as a premier university music performance school. We are committed to academic excellence, innovative musical training and the skills and experience necessary to produce outstanding performing artists, composers, conductors, scholars and recording professionals. Curious, talented and ambitious students from across the nation and around the world experience a multi-genre curriculum, vibrant performances, creativity, scholarship and entrepreneurial skills preparing them to join professional arts companies around the world. more

In Denver and the Rocky Mountain West, our students and faculty members experience one of the nation’s world-class arts areas, performing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts , area jazz clubs and with the Colorado Symphony , Denver Brass , Central City Opera , Opera Colorado , Aspen Music Festival , Bravo! Vail, Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra and others. After graduation, our alumni continue to perform and learn at professional companies including the Metropolitan Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and prestigious music schools including the Eastman School of Music, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and The Juilliard School.

Performing under the direction of Steve Wiest:

Saxophones: Carl Burner: Lead Alto, Paige Billow: Alto II, Ike Spivak: Tenor I, Greg Ravnell: Tenor II and Quinn Dymalski: Bari; Trumpets: Jake Boldman: Lead Trumpet, Miles Roth: Tpt II, John Burton: Tpt III, and Dylan Vessel: Tpt IV; Trombones: Tyler Barboza: Lead Trombone, Scott Odou: Tbn II, Harry Forlenza-Bailey: Tbn III, and Leo Peters: Bass Tbn; Rhythm Section: Elliot Clement: Piano, Ben Parish: Guitar, Matt Campbell: Drums, and Simon Schrag: Bass

Studio Club Members: Please contact Arvida arvida@kuvo.org to reserve seats for you and a guest. If you’re not a Studio Club Member find out how to join here.

Thank you to our Studio Sponsors: Classic Pianos, Denver Piano Tuning, Drum City Guitarland, Flesher Hinton Music Co., Listen Up and Original Pasquini’s