The Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dave Rivello, premiered the newly revised version of my composition Overdrive for big band featuring electric guitar and soprano saxophone. Here is a live recording of the premiere back in April, which features Billy Petito on electric guitar, and Colin Gordon on soprano saxophone. They did an amazing job!!!
Seattle Skies (2015) premiere by the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble
The Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dave Rivello, premiered the version of my composition Seattle Skies for big band with woodwind doublings, featuring soprano saxophone. Here is a live recording of the premiere back in April, which features Colin Gordon on soprano saxophone. They did an amazing job!!!
This is one of three versions of the piece: There is one version that has woodwind doublings, and the other is for bass clarinet, marimba, bass, and drums.
Seattle Skies (2015) premiered by the UNLV Jazz Ensemble
The UNLV Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dave Loeb, premiered my composition Seattle Skies in April at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This is one of three versions of the piece: There is one version that has woodwind doublings, and the other is for bass clarinet, marimba, bass, and drums. Here is a video recording from the premiere.
Beautiful performance of “Out of the Shadows” at UNLV!
Monday night, May 4, 2015 I conducted my composition Out of the Shadows (2012, orig. titled “Splash”) at the UNLV NEXTET concert. It was such a wonderful experience working with my musicians on the piece, and they played beautifully!
The performance of "Out of the Shadows" (2012) tonight went really well! I'm extremely grateful to all of the musicians for such a beautiful performance!
Posted by Jennifer Bellor, composer on Monday, May 4, 2015
Performance of “Out of the Shadows” on Nextet Concert May 4th!
I’m excited to share that my composition Out of the Shadows (orig. titled Splash (2012)) this Monday, May 4th, 2015 in Doc Rando Recital Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as part of the final NEXTET concert of the season! Also on the program is a piece for violin and viola by my colleague, composer Joshua Fishbein, a piece by student composer G Liu, and two pieces by composer-in-residence Michael Hersch.
Out of the Shadows was written for jazz trumpet, string quartet, vibraphone, piano, bass, and drums. Here is a list of the performers:
Jorge Machain, trumpet
Sammi Ciarlo, violin I
Tammy Hung, violin II
David Chavez, viola
Lindsay Johnson, cello
Caleb Pickering, vibraphone
Otto Ehling, piano
Summer Kodama, bass
Colin Woodford, drums
I feel so fortunate to have such talented musicians playing my piece!