Tuesday, January 20, 2009

DGS Jazz @ the 2009 Purdue Jazz Festival


Our DGS Jazz Ensemble and Lab Band "hit the road" on January 16-17, 2009 to perform in and compete at the 2009 Purdue University Jazz Festival. Both ensembles merited "Division I" ratings, the highest possible rating available from the national panel of adjudidcators. In addition to excellent ensemble performances, these student musicians were selected by the adjudication panels as Oustanding Soloists:

Alex Bahaveolos, trombone
Elliot Bild, trumpet
Carmine Calabria, drum set/vibes
Hank Gordon, bass
Matt Kowalski, trombone
Zach Munoz, bass
Justin Proksa, tenor saxophone
Mitch Reeter, trombone
Mike Ruth, alto saxophone
Callie Sorce, alto saxophone
In addition to earning Division I Awards, both the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band were given "Outstanding Performance" awards by their room adjuducation panels. This means that in their separate rooms, Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band were chosen as "second place" during the course of the day.

Congratulatons to these individuals and to our DGS ensembles for such a tremendous showing ath the 2009 Purdue Jazz Festival!