Jazz Ensemble Concert, 03/02/22

PACIFIC JAZZ ENSEMBLE Wednesday I March 2, 2021 Faye Spanos Concert Hall

I 7:30 pm

Pacific Jazz Ensemble Featuring Guest Artist Marquis Hill Patrick Langham, director

48th Performance I 2021–22 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific

CONCERT PROGRAM I MARCH 2, 2022 I 7:30 PM

Selections to be chosen from the following: Central City Sketches (1933) No. 1 Blues No. 2 Hello No. 3 People Time

Benny Carter (1907 - 2003)

Movin’ Uptown (1996)

Benny Carter

Stellar

Marquis Hill (b. 1987) arr. Kendall Moore

Aquarius

Marquis Hill arr. Kendall Moore

Inner City Blues Marquis Hill arr. Kendall Moore & Josh Moshier B - Tune

Marquis Hill arr. Joe Mazzaferro

PACIFIC JAZZ ENSEMBLE Saxophone Section Tal Kalman (Alto) Gianna Pedregon (Violin) Mateo Ruiz (Tenor) Antonio Thomas (Tenor) Michael De Lashmutt (Bari)

Trumpet Section Joe Mazzaferro Max Ehrhardt Kylie Ward Alex Hodeib

Trombone Section Andy McKimmy Daniel Siragusa Michael Camfield Victor Alcaraz

Rhythm Section Toby Keys (Piano) Marwan Ghonima (Bass) Samson Hulett (Drums and Vibes) Reyna Machado (Drums)

PERFORMER AND DIRECTOR BIOS

A big band in the tradition of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, the Pacific Jazz Ensemble performs classic big band literature while also embracing the music of cotemporary composers & arrangers. They have an impressive list of credentials which include having competition winning performances at the Reno Jazz Festival and being invited several times to play at the Next Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey, CA. Recent guest artists performing with the group have included Gretchen Parlato, Lewis Nash, Terrell Stafford, Carl Allen, Eric Reed, Samara Joy, and Sullivan Fortner.

Marquis Hill is a trumpeter, composer, and band leader from Chicago, Illinois. His musical style stems from Black American Music, synthesizing genres from jazz, hip-hop, R&B, Chicago house and neo-soul.

Hill is the winner of several prestigious music awards. In 2012, he won first place in the International Trumpet Guild’s Jazz Improvisation Competition. In 2013, he won first in the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition and in 2014, Hill won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Trumpet Competition.

Winning the Thelonious Monk competition also resulted in a recording contract with Concord Music from which Hill recorded his album The Way We Play.

Patrick Langham is an experienced educator and performer with an 18-year career at the University of the Pacific. As Professor and Director of Jazz Studies, Langham developed the university’s Jazz Studies degree programs.

During his time at Pacific, Langham has traveled to Spain as a visiting jazz conductor, overseen student performances in Paraguay, and directed groups at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Reno Jazz Festival, and Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

As a saxophonist, he has performed with distinguished jazz artists including Lewis Nash, Bob Hurst, Donald Brown, Tom Harrell, Essiet Essiet, Terell Stafford, and Louis Hayes.

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UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS Mar. 4 | 7:30pm Pacific Bands Concert Faye Spanos Concert Hall Mar. 8 | 7:30pm Electro-acoustic Duo Brittany Trotter & Kyle Bruckmann Recital Hall

Mar 24 -27 | 7:30pm Opera Theatre: The Threepenny Opera Faye Spanos Concert Hall Nov. 5 | 7:30pm Guest Artist: Ignace Jang Recital Hall

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