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DCINY Vocal Jazz Festival With Phil Mattson

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Acts

Phil Mattson, Guest Conductor
Vocal Jazz with Phil Mattson
Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Also Featuring:

Michele Weir, Guest Artist

Participating Groups

Chandler-Gilbert Community College Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Badinage

Kingsburg High School Jazz Choir

Maria Carrillo High School Jazz Choir

Solano Community College Vocal Jazz Ensemble "Jazz On The Vox"

SHE4! & Sparta Vocal Jazz

Valley Christian School "Room 107"

Special Guests

Artist's Name

Phil Mattson

Participating Group Directors

Phil Mattson
Phil Mattson is a pianist, arranger, conductor, and teacher. Phil has written many arrangements for vocal jazz ensemble and choir. Manhattan Transfer, Chanticleer, The Real Group, The Dale Warland Singers, The Four Freshmen, Clockwork, Beachfront, Solstice, Phoenix and Clarion Chamber Chorale are among the groups who have commissioned his arrangements. In addition, he edited the arrangements of Gene Puerling for publication.

As an accompanist, Phil has played with several notable singers and players, among them: Mark Murphy, Don Shelton, Sunny Wilkinson, Michele Weir, Jennifer Barnes, Barbara Morrison, Richie Cole, Ernestine Anderson, Carmen Lundy, Cornelius Bumpus, Carl Anderson, and Inga Sweringen. He has led the vocal jazz groups - the pm singers, VoicesIowa, Vocalogy and Phil Mattson Singers.

Phil served as Vocal Jazz Director for The Stan Kenton Clinics, ACDA National Repertoire and Standards Chair for Vocal Jazz and, annually, conducts the Carnegie Hall Vocal Jazz Festival. In the summer, Phil Mattson Vocal Jazz/Choral Workshops are presented on campuses in the United States, Canada and Europe. He has been nominated for two Grammy awards.

Chandler-Gilbert Community College Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Marcus Denton
The Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) Vocal Jazz Ensemble is a 16-member mixed ensemble, representing the cream of Chandler-Gilbert Community College's well-respected vocal major program. CGCC Vocal Jazz Ensembles have performed at various festivals and concerts throughout the state of Arizona, and have earned a statewide reputation in recent years as one of Arizona's best collegiate vocal jazz groups. Their repertoire includes a wide variety of styles of vocal jazz, including swing-era, modern, classical jazz, latin and blues.

Badinage
Neal Allsup
Badinage is one of two vocal jazz ensembles at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas. This ensemble accepts up to eight vocalists through audition and is accompanied by an instrumental jazz combo. All members of Badinage must also be enrolled in the Chamber Choir at Hutchinson Community College. The repertoire performed by the group includes a variety of jazz styles: Standards, Swing, Latin, Ballads, and Bebop. Badinage has performed at the Carnegie Hall, Disney World, KMEA Conventions, and at major vocal jazz festivals around the nation, including the Carnegie Hall Vocal Jazz Festival, the UNT Jazz Festival, and the UNC Jazz Festival.

Kingsburg High School Jazz Choir
Richard Mynderup
The Kingsburg High School Jazz Choir is a 12 member auditioned ensemble that keeps a very busy performance schedule each school year. Consistently receiving high ratings and comments, the jazz choir has established a reputation for quality. They have performed at The Columbia Vocal Jazz Festival and the Reno Jazz Festival consistently year after year. The jazz choir made their New York debut on the stage at Carnegie Hall with the 7th Annual Phil Mattson Vocal Jazz Festival in 2004. The members of this year's group are thrilled to be able to share their music with you tonight.

Maria Carrillo High School Jazz Choir
Gail Bowers

The Maria Carrillo High School Jazz Choir is from Santa Rosa, California, which is in the heart of Sonoma County Wine Country. This group is made up of 11 students from grades 10 - 12. They are chosen by audition and rehearse every morning from 7:00 - 8:00 AM. They are a highly dedicated group of students that are known for clean a cappella harmonies, beautiful blend and warm tone color. This group of young singers travels throughout the state of California to different performances, festivals and competitions. They have been invited twice by the City of Santa Rosa to perform at their sister city's Fire Festival in Jeju, South Korea. In 2003 they performed at Carnegie Hall by invitation of Phil Mattson and are honored to be with Mr. Mattson again in 2012.

Solano Community College Vocal Jazz Ensemble "Jazz On The Vox"
Kristy Juliano

Jazz on the Vox is Solano Community College's vocal jazz ensemble which meets one-night-a-week during the semester. This "class" has been taught/directed by Kristy Juliano for the last four years. Although there is often much matriculation in college courses, the singers of this ensemble, many of whom are alumni of St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School's award-winning Project Jazz and Jazz Tech ensembles who are now working adults in our community, are driven to continue expressing their passion for music through the genre of vocal jazz. This ensemble represents only a small version of the full ensemble now enrolled in the class. We hope we represent Solano Community College and our fellow musicians well.

SHE4! & Sparta Vocal Jazz
Janette K. Hanson

SHE4! is one of six choral groups at Sparta High School, a rural 9-12 high school in western Wisconsin with approximately 700 students. Their name comes from their gender, as well as an acronym for "Sixth Hour Ensemble". Since its inception in 2006, SHE4! has performed twice at the Phil Mattson Carnegie Hall Vocal Jazz Festival, and was one of seven choral groups selected to perform at the WCDA State Convention. One of the SHE4! singers was selected for the 18-voice North Central ACDA Vocal Jazz Honor Choir in 2010 with the Real Group, under the direction of Phil Mattson and Steve Zegree.

Sparta Vocal Jazz is one of six choral groups at Sparta High School in Wisconsin. The ensemble travels to 5-6 vocal jazz festivals each year. Students have enjoyed working with leading performers and educators including Phil Mattson, Darmon Meader, and Steve Zegree. Students have been awarded scholarships to attend vocal jazz camps at SWCC, Western Michigan, and UW-LaCrosse. Students from Sparta Vocal Jazz have been chosen to perform in the Wisconsin All-State Vocal Jazz ensemble each year since its inception. This marks the fifth appearance of Sparta Vocal Jazz in New York City with the Phil Mattson Vocal Jazz Festival.

Valley Christian School "Room 107"
Michelle Hawkins
Room 107 is the vocal jazz ensemble from Valley Christian Conservatory of the Arts in San Jose, California. They have performed at various festivals across California, including the Cuesta College Jazz Festival, Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival, Reno Jazz Festival and the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival. They consistently receive superior ratings and rave reviews from judges and clinicians. In addition to their festival performances, Room 107 performs regularly for Conservatory events and for the greater Bay Area community. Room 107 earned the Outstanding High School Performance Award from Downbeat Magazine in 2010. In January 2012, they won the Festival Sweepstakes Award at the Folsom Jazz Festival.