ΒιΆΉΣ³» Jazz Ensemble, Chorale and Student Recital Offer Audiences a Range of Performance Events in May
The ΒιΆΉΣ³» Department of Music will showcase students and community members in a series of performances featuring the ΒιΆΉΣ³» Jazz Ensemble, ΒιΆΉΣ³» Chorale and a Student Recital.
βAs we emerge from a pandemic-imposed exile to the digital realm, live music can once again be heard in the Performing Arts Center,β shared NVC Coordinator of Music and Director of Vocal Studies Dr. Christina Howell. βGuests may choose between listening to the musicians of tomorrow in the afternoon recital; a swinging, jazz-filled evening with the NVC Jazz Ensemble; or an inspiring and an uplifting afternoon of vocal music titled βSing Out My Soul.β Our performers are excited to share the music we have been enjoying all semester.β
The ΒιΆΉΣ³» Jazz Ensemble will present a live performance on Friday, May 20 at 7 p.m. Led by instructor and Jazz Ensemble Director Peter Estabrook, NVC students and community members will perform music by Duke Ellington and others in a variety of styles within the jazz idiom including swing, jazz/rock, funk and Latin jazz.
Students studying Applied Music at ΒιΆΉΣ³» will be featured in a Student Recital on Saturday, May 21 at 2 p.m. that will include a wide range of musical styles, from Mozart to Crosby, Stills & Nash to Frank Sinatra.
On Sunday, May 22 at 7 p.m., the ΒιΆΉΣ³» Chorale, conducted by Dr. Howell, plans an exciting and uplifting program of songs focusing on emergence together. βWe will celebrate singing together as a community and bloom into a new world by featuring music on the theme βSing Out My Soul,ββ explains Howell. Student Conductor Caelan Koehn will direct βSpring Overall,β based on a poem by Rumi and composed by ΒιΆΉΣ³» College music instructor Mazdak Khamda. Guest artists will include ΒιΆΉΣ³» student instrumentalists on violin, cello and percussion. Audience members will hear styles ranging from traditional classical works to pieces written by musical theater composer Jason Robert Brown and pop singer Annie Lennox.
All performances will be held on the mainstage of ΒιΆΉΣ³» Performing Arts Center. For more Information and to purchase tickets, visit
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