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Pianist Jeffrey Savage to perform in Tri-Cities
As a professor of music at WSU, Jeffrey Savage doesn’t limit his talent to the Pullman campus.
He’s performed at such prestigious New York City venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Juilliard Theater.
And on Jan. 17, the accomplished pianist brings his talents to the Tri-Cities for a Camerata Musica concert in the Battelle Auditorium in Richland.
The concert will be an all-Beethoven event.
Nov. 20: Symphonic band, winds present concert
Students will participate as guest conductor and soloists during a free Symphonic Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in Bryan Hall at WSU Pullman.
Graduate student Christopher Nelson will guest conduct David Holsinger’s “Havendance.” “A Movement for Rosa” by Mark Camphouse, honoring the memory of Rosa Parks, and “Dance of the Jesters” by Peter Tchaikovsky will follow.
The evening will close with David Gillingham’s “Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind Ensemble.” It will feature four student soloists.
Jazz fest draws high school students
Area schools, musicians hold day of music, learning
Rich golden notes and glints of similarly colored instruments lit up Bryan Hall Theatre at WSU Pullman on Wednesday during the School of Music’s Jazz Festival Gala Concert.
The day-long music festival has taken place each autumn for at least the past 22 years, according to Greg Yasinitsky, director of both the WSU school of Music and WSU Jazz Big Band.
Yasinitsky, who founded the festival and has been with WSU for nearly 35 years, said it has changed a lot since its inception.
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Nov. 5: Guest drummer, trumpeter highlight jazz festival
A visiting drummer and WSU trumpeter will perform with the WSU Jazz Big Band during a free, public concert at noon Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Bryan Hall on the Pullman campus. The concert is part of the daylong WSU Jazz Festival for area high school groups.
Drummer and composer Tom Morgan of Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., performs and records with numerous groups, including the Trilogy Big Band, a 17-piece jazz ensemble with two recently released CDs on the Sea Breeze Jazz recording label.
Trumpeter Brian Ploeger, a graduate teaching assistant in the WSU School of Music, toured internationally as a featured soloist with Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He has recorded with Michael Feinstein and Maynard Ferguson and has served on the music faculties at Spokane Falls Community College and Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash.
The performance by the WSU Jazz Big Band, under the direction of Regents Professor Greg Yasinitsky, will feature faculty members Dave Hagelganz, saxophone; Brian Ward, piano; Brad Ard, guitar; F. David Snider, bass; and David Jarvis, drums.