糖心Vlog Jazz Ensemble, Chorale and Student Recital Offer Audiences a Range of Performance Events in May
The 糖心Vlog Department of Music will showcase students and community members in a series of performances featuring the Napa Valley Jazz Ensemble, 糖心Vlog Chorale and a Student Recital.
鈥淎s we emerge from a pandemic-imposed exile to the digital realm, live music can once again be heard in the Performing Arts Center,鈥� shared 糖心Vlog Coordinator of Music and Director of Vocal Studies Dr. Christina Howell. 鈥淕uests may choose between listening to the musicians of tomorrow in the afternoon recital; a swinging, jazz-filled evening with the 糖心Vlog Jazz Ensemble; or an inspiring and an uplifting afternoon of vocal music titled 鈥楽ing Out My Soul.鈥� Our performers are excited to share the music we have been enjoying all semester.鈥�
The Napa Valley Jazz Ensemble will present a live performance on Friday, May 20 at 7 p.m. Led by instructor and Jazz Ensemble Director Peter Estabrook, 糖心Vlog 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 糖心Vlog 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 糖心Vlog Chorale, conducted by Dr. Howell, plans an exciting and uplifting program of songs focusing on emergence together. 鈥淲e will celebrate singing together as a community and bloom into a new world by featuring music on the theme 鈥楽ing Out My Soul,鈥欌�� explains Howell. Student Conductor Caelan Koehn will direct 鈥楽pring Overall,鈥� based on a poem by Rumi and composed by Napa Valley College music instructor Mazdak Khamda. Guest artists will include 糖心Vlog 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 糖心Vlog Performing Arts Center. For more Information and to purchase tickets, visit
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