Above: Musician Alex Lee-Clark will work with NSBORO jazz musicians for a special concert next week, and Algonquin is celebrating the accomplishments of its musical students. (images cropped from social media)
While I was working on a post about an upcoming Algonquin musical event next week, I stumbled across a couple other bits of musical news of note.
Jazz Night – February 26th
On the Wednesday after break Algonquin will hold its annual Jazz Night. The program brings together the high school jazz players with jazz bands from Trottier and Melican middle schools.
As usual, they will feature a guest performer. This year, trumpeter Alex Lee-Clark will be working with the students. Clark is a professional trumpet player, arranger, band leader, and educator. (Some may know him as the co-leader of the BT ALC Band.)
You can get a preview of his talent from the 2021 video below featuring his original composition “The Lebowski Suite”. (He’s the performer center right.):
For the general public, the cost is $5 per adult and $3/child/senior. You can buy tickets here.
All State Music Festival winners to play Symphony Hall – March 29th
Last Month, GonkArts posted news of five Algonquin students who successfully auditioned to perform in the Mass Music Educators Association’s (MMEA’s) annual concert at Symphony Hall.
This year, MMEA selected from Algonquin four violinists — Leo Deng, Amy Li, Aaron Wu, and Anthony Wu — and a singer —Evan Morgan.
The concert is scheduled for March 29th at 1:00 pm. You can learn more and purchase tickets here.
MMEA Central Districts
This month GonkArts congratulated the six students who who were accepted into the MMEA’s Central District Junior Festival Ensembles. Those were:
- Aditya Jain, Clarinet
- Vivienne Lefebvre, Euphonium
- Obi Mokwunye, Trombone
- Jackson Rutledge, Jazz Trumpet
- lan Tregger, Timpani
- Rohan Viswanathan, Tuba
The festival is scheduled for Saturday, May 3rd at Blackstone-Millville Regional High School. Tickets are $15 each. You can learn more here.
