JAZZ GREAT
DENIS DIBLASIO IN CONCERT AND WORKSHOP ON JULY 17
The “Jazz Improvisation Workshop” starts at 5:00
PM and is free and open to the public. Denis
DiBlasio is one of the most well known and highly respected jazz educators in
the world, whose unique motivational approach and witty sense of humor keep him
constantly in demand as a clinician and performing musician.
His jazz arrangements have been widely published and he has written
several books on jazz improvisation and scat singing.
There is no charge for admission and reservations are not required.
The concert will begin at 8:00 PM and will feature
the quartet featuring DiBlasio (baritone sax, flute, and scat singing), Rudolph
(piano), Jim Miller (bass), and Joe Hunt (drums).
Admission
to the concert is $10, with a special discount of $5 for students (K-12).
Currently enrolled CVSM students are admitted free.
For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Cumberland Valley
School of Music at (717)-261-1220.
Baritone
saxophonist and flutist Denis DiBlasio
honed his skills in the big band of legendary trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, where
he served as Music Director for five years.
Now, he tours the world as a leader of his own jazz quartet and a
clinician-arranger-composer.
Jazz
pianist Steve Rudolph has recorded
numerous CD’s and performed internationally as a leader and with such jazz
greats as Louis Bellson, Clark Terry, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Lovano, Buddy
Tate, Al Grey, Scott Hamilton, Helen O’Connell, Buddy DeFranco, the Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra, and countless others. Winner
of the 1999 Jazziz Magazine - Seven Springs Jazz Festival Piano Competition, he
has been voted “Best Musician” in the Harrisburg Magazine “Best of
Central PA Poll” five years in a row, and received the 2002 Harrisburg Arts
Awards. His career is also
highlighted by five European tours, three appearances
as soloist with the Harrisburg Symphony, soloist with Miami’s New World
Symphony, and receiving a Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts Jazz Fellowship in 1995 and Jazz Composers Fellowship in
2001.
This project is made possible with support from the
Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) program is a partnership initiative
between local arts organizations and the PA Council on the Arts (PCA), a state
agency. State government funding
for the arts comes through an annual appropriation by PA’s General Assembly
and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
PPA is administered in this region by Chambersburg Area Council for the
Arts.
In addition, this project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.