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| Saxophonia To Perform At First Annual Marin Art And Jazz Festival On Sunday October 19 2008 at 2pm, Saxophonia, a presentation of Miraflores Academie's two premiere performance groups, will perform at the first Marin Art and Jazz Festival at the San Rafael Corporate Center 750 Lindaro Street, in downtown San Rafael. Saxophonia, directed and accompanied by Marcia Miget, consists of two of the ensembles of Bay Area-based Miraflores Academie, a preeminent private school that has been the foundation for some of Marin's best musical talent since 1988. Comprised of high school aged students from Marin, this year's crop of young talent features Ian Marci on baritone, Madison Niesyn on tenor, Charles Murray on alto and Jill Ryan on alto. The second group, the well-known 'Saxopoly', is a saxophone sextet featuring Jimmy Kraft on baritone, Lila Frisher on tenor, Ji Chau Xu on tenor, Ryan Schleeter on alto, Eric Wilkinson on alto and Zephan McIntyre-Bader on alto. Students from these groups have been chosen for prestigious ensembles such as the Marin Youth Symphony, The SF Jazz High School All Stars, and California All State Bands. They have garnered awards from high school competitions at the Santa Cruz and Reno Jazz Festivals.' Saxopoly' in various evolutions, has performed at numerous local festivals and is a standard at San Rafael's Italian Street Painting Festival. Repertoire consists of composers such as Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson, Bart Howard, Charlie Parker.Some of the names of current and graduated students will be familiar, e.g. James Perdelwitz, Kelly Styger, Lani Chan, Willie and Joelle Parrett, Jeff Derby, Jaimeo Brown, Alex Baky, J.J.Byars, Lou Wiskus, Robby Marshall, Isabella Quereshi, Andrew Ross-Perry, Dorian Pandey, Zach Gunsell, Dan Birch, Bram Kincheloe, Elysia Strauss, Seth Paris, Kristina Hoffman, Andrew Capra and Salvador Santana, others you should keep an ear out for. These graduates, and many more, were selected for prestigious musical performance groups like the International Monterey High School All-star Jazz Band, California High School All-State Band, California High School All-State Jazz Band, the San Francisco Jazz High School Allstars and attend a number of institutions such as Oberlin College, Sarah Lawrence, Berklee School of Music, the New School to Cal Arts, Manhattan School, NYU, USC and UCLA or performing professionally with such names as Bill Watrus, Mingus Big Band, and Greg Tardy. The array of award-winning students from Miraflores have performed in such events as the Duke Ellington Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, the International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention, San Jose Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Rafael's Italian Street Painting Festival, et al. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, with skills that cross multiple genres Marcia currently performs with the Voices of Latin Rock. She's the only female saxophonist/flutist with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, performing with Wayne Wallace's Rhythm and Rhyme, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts and the Montclair Women's Big Band. She's played at Monterey, Stern Grove, Sonoma, Fillmore Jazz Festivals and the International Association of Jazz Educators' Conventions with the African American Jazz Caucus AllStar Big Band (in 2004 was the Featured Artist with the Historically Black Colleges' University Allstar Band). Her performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such notables as Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato, Frank Foster, Pete Escovedo, Donald Byrd, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra's Arkestra, Freddy Redd, Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, Carl Perazzo, Phish, Wayne Wallace, John Santos, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and Prophet, Jaimeo Brown and Dartanyan Brown. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |