Chamber Jazz Ensemble Planning Annual Concert Nov. 4
Contact: Karel Lidral, 581-1256; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — The UMaine Chamber Jazz Ensemble will present its annual formal concert in the Leonard and Renee Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, on Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
The organization is composed of several soloists and small ensembles with piano accompaniment. This semester’s group consists of nine musicians representing a variety of instruments, according to music professor Karel Lidral, who directs the ensemble. The ensemble is open to student instrumentalists at all levels.
Membership in the Chamber Jazz Ensemble is a major component of the minor in jazz studies at UMaine, and members learn about both the art of jazz improvisation and that other “salient aspect of jazz, swing feeling,” Lidral says.
The Nov. 4 program include great jazz standards and originals from jazz greats including Charlie Parker, Red Garland, McCoy Tyner, Nat Adderley, Horace Silver, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Du Bose & Dorothy Hayward, and George & Ira Gershwin.
Student ensemble performers include: John Brabant, alto saxophone, of Presque Isle; John Brushie, piano, of Surry, Ray DeLear, soprano saxophone, of Corinth; Ashley Drew, tenor saxophone, of Scarborough, Anna-Marlies Hunter, clarinet, of Limestone, Skye Landry, trumpet, of Oxford, Adam Mullen, guitar, of Brewer; Alisa Rhodes, tenor saxophone, of Rockford, Ill.; and Bryant Sirois, guitar, of Caribou.
Tickets are $6. UMaine students with a MaineCard are admitted free. More information is available through the Maine Center for the Arts Box Office at 581-1755, or online (www.umaine.edu/spa).
The ensemble also will perform in the “Jazz Corner” of Union Central in the Memorial Union Wednesday, Dec. 3. This event is free and open to the public.