Our PM and FM Jazz Ensembles, as well as two combos performed at the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival on Saturday. All the groups played beautifully, and represented Rio with class. PM was selected by the judges for a command performance on Saturday night. Individual awards were garnered by- Jacob Swedlow (solo awards in PM and combo, plus a scholarship), Devan Kortan (solo awards in PM and 2 combos), Joshua Kravitz (PM), Kyle Nixon (PM), Carson Messer (PM and combo), Emily Dunning (PM), Ben Kerr (FM), Ryan Clark (FM) and Emma Simpson (combo).
The recordings from our most recent Small Ensemble Night are now available in our dropbox.
The show featured all original music, composed and performed by members of the Small Ensemble class. Enjoy.
Honors Concert Band will be performing the works of Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Bach, Debussy, Wagner, and Mozart as well as an original student composition at 7 PM on March 12 in the Rio Band Room.