[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Listmates,

One of the high-schools in the Sacramento area has a great music program. 
Below is an announcement regarding their band from the Lincoln Center Jazz 
program in NY.

--Bob Ringwald


> Subject:  Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and
> Festival
>
> A few days ago, Rio Americano H.S. band director Craig Faniani, received
> official announcement from Jazz at Lincoln Center that the Rio Americano 
> AM
> Jazz Ensemble is one of 15 finalists in the 11th Annual Essentially
> Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival in New York May
> 18-20th.  Out of the fifteen finalists, Rio Americano is one of four bands
> representing California, and the only one representing central and 
> northern
> California.  The following Jazz Society TNT youth band musicians will be
> performing as part of the Rio AM Jazz Ensemble:  Justin Au-trumpet, Ramsey
> Castaneda-sax, and Kesav Raghavan-trombone.  This is quite an honor for 
> them
> and they are very excited about their upcoming performance at the Lincoln
> Center.
>
> Each year, Jazz at Lincoln Center selects and transcribes six original
> arrangements of Duke Ellington compositions.  This year they distributed
> these to 900 registered bands across the country. Of these bands, 97
> submitted recordings of three of these compositions to enter the
> competition. These recordings were evaluated by an expert panel of jazz
> educators.  As a finalist band, Rio AM Jazz Ensemble will have workshops,
> rehearsals and master classes with a professional musician from Jazz at
> Lincoln Center in preparation for the May competition.  Here is a link to
> the official press release announcing all the finalists:
> http://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/jalc/news/060302-news.html.  You can 
> also
> check out the EE homepage for additional information.
> http://www.jalc.org/04_05/ee/index.html

For more information on our Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society's youth 
program, go to www.sacjazz.org

--Bob Ringwald

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