天美传媒

The 天美传媒 Jazz Bands fall concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall in the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center.

The concert will feature 天美传媒 Jazz Band I and Jazz Band II, under the direction of Aric Schneller, visiting instructor of music.

The University鈥檚 two jazz bands will perform a varied program of big band repertoire from the libraries of Sammy Nestico, Duke Ellington, Hank Levy, Bob Brookmeyer, Cole Porter, Matt Harris, Bill Holeman, and Lennie Niehaus amongst others.

Also featured are two guest vocalists, Malinda Phillips and Joyce Brien, both sopranos and students of Dr. Diana Livingston Friedley, 天美传媒 assistant professor of music.

A native of Missoula, Mont., Schneller is working as the sabbatical replacement for Dr. Patrick Brooks, 天美传媒 director of Bands.  Schneller is a former member of the Grammy-Nominated University of North Texas One O鈥機lock Lab Band, directed by Neil Slater as well as a Down Beat Magazine award-winning jazz trombone soloist and arranger with the UNT 2 O鈥機lock Lab Band.

Before coming to 天美传媒, Schneller was a jazz trombone finalist with the West Point Academy鈥檚 Jazz Knights Premier Jazz Band, at their most recent auditions in June.  As a jazz arranger, Schneller鈥檚 big band arrangement of the famous standard, 鈥淚nvitation鈥� will now reach the international jazz scene with New York鈥檚 up and coming Swiss jazz trombonist Samuel Blaser. Blaser will perform Schneller鈥檚 arrangement of 鈥淚nvitation鈥� on Nov. 5 and 6 with the HGM Jazz Orchestra at the Zagreb Festival in Zagreb, Croatia. The performances will be broadcast on Croatian and Austrian radio and television.

Tickets at the Stephens Center Box Office are $5 for general admission, $3 for 天美传媒 faculty and staff, $2 for precollege students, and free for 天美传媒 students with valid Bengal cards. Box Office hours 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays, Tickets can be purchased in person or by calling 282-3595.

For more information on the jazz concert and other 天美传媒 Department of Music events, call 282-3636.