Piano recital, jazz concert scheduled at MCRelease Date:
February 22, 2006
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Contemporary chamber music and several styles of jazz will
be featured as Monmouth College closes the month of February with two musical
events.
A recital of contemporary music for solo piano by Ashlee Mack will be presented
on Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., and an evening of rousing jazz is on tap on Feb. 28 at
7:30 p.m. The latter event will feature the Monmouth College Jazz Band and two
newly-formed ensembles – the Jazz Combo and the Freshman Jazz Band.
Free and open to the public, both events will be held in the Kasch Performance
Hall of the Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.
Mack’s recital is a preview of a program she will present in March at the
American Academy in Rome. It will include works by Dorothy Hindman, Charles
Norman Mason, James Romig and Edward Taylor.
A Knox College adjunct professor who received a bachelor’s degree in piano
performance from Bucknell University, Mack performs regularly in solo and
chamber settings, master classes and with various new-music ensembles and
organizations. Active in promoting music by contemporary composers, she is a
member of the Society for Chromatic Art in Princeton, N.J., Vox Novus in New
York City and the Iowa Composers Forum.
The second event, titled “All That Jazz,” will feature the college’s three jazz
ensembles playing a wide selection of jazz styles, including Dixieland, swing,
be-bop and fusion jazz.
A highlight of the Monmouth College Jazz Band’s performance will be the group’s
first trumpet/fluegelhornist, junior Dan Scharlau of Batavia, performing the
popular Chuck Mangione standard, “Feels So Good.”
Making its formal debut at the concert will be the Freshman Jazz Band, which was
formed this year because of the “influx of talented music students and majors at
the college,” according to Stephen Richter, director of instrumental activities.
The ensemble does include some upperclassmen who are learning new instruments.
The evening will conclude with the premiere of the Monmouth College Jazz Combo,
which includes five of MC’s most talented musicians on piano, bass, drums,
guitar and saxophone. The program will include some original compositions
written by freshman Andrew Martin of Woodstock.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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