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40th Annual AzJazz Week – “Mardi Gras Extravaganza!”

Guest Artists, Jazz Tuesday February 27, 2018 - 7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m.

Venue: Crowder Hall, 1017 N. Olive Road, Tucson, AZ 85721-0004

The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents its 40th Annual AzJazz Week, featuring six concerts. Daily performances will take place starting Sunday, February 25 through Friday, March 2, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Crowder Hall. Please see full schedule of events listed below.

The jazz studies area at the UA Fred Fox School of Music is under the direction of Dr. Angelo Versace. “AzJazz Week is a long-standing tradition at the University of Arizona, thanks to the efforts of Professor Emeritus Jeff Haskell and Professor Moisés Paiewonsky. Over the years, many internationally acclaimed artists have performed in our concert halls and provided clinics for our students. Some of those include Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Marian McPartland, Jimmy Cobb, Ingrid Jensen, Alan Broadbent, Chris Potter, Terell Stafford, Bill Watrous as well as several local artists and groups. I am delighted to continue Jeff Haskell’s efforts in order to benefit the community and our students year after year.

To celebrate the 40th Annual AzJazz Week, we have an eclectic lineup of groups and artists with a notable final concert featuring students from our jazz and orchestra programs, UA distinguished alumna Katherine Byrnes, as well as Jeff Haskell himself. Please join us and become a part of this UA jazz tradition!”

Concert I:
“The Latin Tinge… from Arsenio to Porter”
Jaleo
Sunday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10, 7, 5

Their multicultural musical heritage has rightly led Jaleo into the top leading performers in Phoenix, Arizona. With meritorious achievable performances, Jaleo has musically reproduced impressionistic geographical cadences in their work, offering Afro Cuban, Puerto Rican and Colombian rhythmical inspiration. Their Multicultural awareness is a musical interpretation of past and present joy.

Concert II:
The Tucson Jazz Collective directed by Moisés Paiewonsky
Monday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $Free

The Tucson Jazz Collective (TJC), formerly Park Avenue Jazz Orchestra, is a newly formed, Tucson-based, professional jazz ensemble. The group comprises local and transplant musicians representing the best Tucson has to offer. TJC aims to promote its agenda of world-class quality music through a series of performances and concerts in and around southern Arizona, and will mark it’s first year of existence with a recording at the Jeff Haskell Recording Studio at the University of Arizona in August of 2018.

Concert III:
“Mardi Gras Extravaganza!”
The Original Wildcat Jass Band
featuring the Lindy Hopkins Dancers
Dwayne Riley, clarinet; Rick Peron, trumpet
Rob Boone, trombone, piano; Rob Wright, banjo, vocals
Ray Templin, drums, piano, vocals; Evan Dain, bass, vocals
Tuesday, February 27, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10, 7, 5

Concert IV:
UA Studio Jazz Ensemble featuring Andre Hayward, trombone
directed by Angelo Versace
Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10, 7, 5

Andre Hayward is an extremely gifted trombonist with the sound and clarity reminiscent of the late J.J. Johnson. In 2003 he received first place and a significant scholarship at the International Thelonious Monk Trombone Competition. He has performed/recorded with Roy Hargrove, Betty Carter, Joe Williams, Slide Hampton, John Lewis, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gerald Wilson, Kirk Whalum, Jimmy Heath, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and Illinois Jacquet’s Big Band.

Concert V:
“The Essence of Jazz”
The Arizona Jazz Collective featuring Brice Winston, tenor saxophone; Angelo Versace, piano Tom Wakeling, bass; Dom Moio, drums
Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10, 7, 5

The Arizona Jazz Collective brings together four highly acclaimed artists who have performed worldwide with a who’s who of jazz. The band’s live performances embrace jazz’ past, present, and future, with a great chemistry and an adventurous, hard-swinging style. Saxophonist Brice Winston (Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, Ellis Marsalis), pianist Angelo Versace (Warren Wolf, Marcus Printup, Slide Hampton), and the swinging rhythm team of veterans Tom Wakeling (Lee Konitz, James Moody, Mel Torme), & Dom Moio (Clark Terry, Herb Ellis, Ahmad Jamal) join forces only a handful of times each year to perform as the Arizona Jazz Collective. Their time together on the bandstand is always a musical highlight of the year, both for them and for their audiences!

Concert VI:
“A Night with Nelson Riddle”
featuring Katherine Byrnes, vocalist & Jeff Haskell, piano
Arizona Symphony Orchestra & UA Studio Jazz Ensemble
conducted by Thomas Cockrell, Nelson Riddle Endowed Chair in Music
Friday, March 2, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10, 7, 5

The Nelson Riddle Archive at the University of Arizona holds a treasure of arrangements by one of America’s preeminent figures in popular music of the 1950s and 60s. The Arizona Symphony Orchestra and UA Studio Jazz Ensemble join forces and welcome UA alumna vocalist Katherine Byrnes for an elegant evening of arrangements originally written for Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Linda Ronstadt. Big band and symphonic orchestra unite in the great finale, Riddle’s “Adam and Eve” ballet from the 1960 film “Can-Can.”

CONTACT: Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162 or tickets.arizona.edu
TICKETS: $10, 7, 5

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Meet pianist Wenxin Guan and don't miss her performance with the ASO this weekend!

49th Annual President’s Concert – Arizona Symphony Orchestra
with 2022-2023 Concerto Competition winners
Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, clarinet
Wenxin Guan, piano
Martina Portychova, mezzo-soprano
Emmy Tisdel, violin
February 4, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
February 5, Sunday, 3:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. Featuring clarinetist Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, performing the “Black Dog Concerto” by Scott McAllister; pianist Wenxin Guan, performing movements II and III of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova, performing “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer; and violinist Emmy Tisdel, performing movement I of the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Graduate students Yudai Ueda and Fátima Corona del Toro will conduct the students’ performances. The program will also include works by Myroslav Skoryk and Alexander Borodin, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.

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About Wenxin Guan

Wenxin Guan, a native of China, is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance at the University of Arizona under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Linder. She earned both a Master’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy and a Master’s degree in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma in 2021, where she studied piano with Dr. Jeongwon Ham and Dr. John Murphy and piano pedagogy with Dr. Barbara Fast and Dr. Jane Magrath. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from Capital University in 2018, where she studied with Dr. Tianshu Wang. Wenxin’s playing has earned her numerous scholarships and grants, providing opportunities to perform both regionally and internationally (Eisenstadt, Austria). She has received awards in several piano competitions, including the MTNA Oklahoma Young Artist Competition, OMTA Collegiate Competition, the University of Oklahoma Concerto Competition, and Capital University’s Concerto Competition. She has also performed in masterclasses for Alexander Kobrin, Alan Chow, Alvin Chow, Lisa Kaplan, and others.
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Meet violinist Emmy Tisdel and don't miss her performing with the ASO this weekend!

49th Annual President’s Concert – Arizona Symphony Orchestra
with 2022-2023 Concerto Competition winners
Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, clarinet
Wenxin Guan, piano
Martina Portychova, mezzo-soprano
Emmy Tisdel, violin
February 4, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
February 5, Sunday, 3:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. Featuring clarinetist Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, performing the “Black Dog Concerto” by Scott McAllister; pianist Wenxin Guan, performing movements II and III of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova, performing “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer; and violinist Emmy Tisdel, performing movement I of the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Graduate students Yudai Ueda and Fátima Corona del Toro will conduct the students’ performances. The program will also include works by Myroslav Skoryk and Alexander Borodin, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.

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About Emmy Tisdel

Emmy Tisdel is a doctoral student in the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona, where she studies with Tim Kantor. She joined the Tucson Symphony Orchestra as a member of the second violin section in Fall 2022. Emmy has been selected as a P.E.O. Scholar for the 2022-23 academic year, and is also a former University of Arizona Doctoral Fellow. Within the University of Arizona, Emmy is a member of the Graduate String Quartet, the Cabrini Quartet. Emmy graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a bachelor’s degree in music, from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University with a Master of Music, and from Schulich School of Music at McGill University with an Artists’ Diploma and a Graduate Diploma in music performance. She is a co-founder of Ensemble Urbain, a conductorless chamber orchestra based in Montreal; she is a faculty member for the SA’ Oaxaca strings international music festival, which provides free chamber music tutoring to students based in Mexico; and a member of Austin Camerata, an interdisciplinary chamber music organization based in Austin, Texas. She has played in masterclasses for people including Christian Tetzlaff, Jamie Laredo, and Ani Kavafian. Former teachers include Jinjoo Cho, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Bowlin, Samantha George, and Katie Brooks.

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Meet mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova!

49th Annual President’s Concert – Arizona Symphony Orchestra
with 2022-2023 Concerto Competition winners
Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, clarinet
Wenxin Guan, piano
Martina Portychova, mezzo-soprano
Emmy Tisdel, violin
February 4, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
February 5, Sunday, 3:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. Featuring clarinetist Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, performing the “Black Dog Concerto” by Scott McAllister; pianist Wenxin Guan, performing movements II and III of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova, performing “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer; and violinist Emmy Tisdel, performing movement I of the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Graduate students Yudai Ueda and Fátima Corona del Toro will conduct the students’ performances. The program will also include works by Myroslav Skoryk and Alexander Borodin, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.
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About Martina Portychova

Born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, Martina Portychova started her musical education when she was just five years old. She was enrolled at the elite Public Music Academy for piano, and auditioned for the prestigious Children's Choir, where she remained a member throughout high school. In 1995 Ms. Portychova moved from the rolling green pastures of the Czech Republic to the Arizona desert. She lived in Tucson where she attended University of Arizona and earned her Bachelor and master's degree in Voice Performance. When she was not performing, she would explore the desert on her Arabian horse Gypsy Gaim and compete in endurance races. She remained in the United States after her education was completed and moved to New York to seek her professional life. Recently she officially became a citizen here. This was an essential life goal, and her American identity is important in her life. Maintaining dual citizenship in both the Czech Republic and this country gives her a seamless advantage to working anywhere between the European Union and here in the United States. Having grown up in Eastern Europe, Ms. Portychova speaks several languages. Russian, Czech, German, French, Italian, and Latin are her most fluid. Her other personal interests include skiing, horseback riding, and target shooting.
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Don't miss Martina in the role of Carmen this April!
“La tragédie de Carmen” adapted by Peter Brook, music by Georges Bizet
Friday, April 14, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 3:00 p.m.
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