The Glenn Korff School of Music’s Big Band and Jazz Singers will be performing Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
The concert is free and open to the public. It will also be live webcast.
The Jazz Singers, under the direction of David von Kampen, is a small choir, open to all members of the university community by audition. Students are instructed in jazz style, ensemble singing, lyric delivery, solos and improvisation.
Big Band, under the direction of Bryan Canonigo, is a vital component of the jazz curriculum. Through intensive rehearsal and performance, students are encouraged to develop and nurture the fundamental skills necessary to perform a wide variety of repertoire and to engage in the creative process through improvisation.
For the Nov. 22 performance, the Jazz Singers will be doing new arrangements of music by Malika Tirolien and Paul Simon, a chart on a Sarah Jarosz song that von Kampen wrote for this group five years ago, and vocal musician and educator Julia Dollison’s brand new arrangement of her own composition, “Forward Like So.”
“This will be an unofficial world premiere before we do it in Dallas next month at our Jazz Education Network national conference performance,” von Kampen said.
He also said the group is excited to sing again.
“And we’re happy to be sharing the concert with the UNL Big Band,” he said. “I believe this is the first time we’ve been billed with that ensemble. It should be a great night of jazz and new music.”
