On March 4, Wednesday, Grammy Award-winning drummer, Dion Parson’s with the newly formed VI Youth Ensemble will offer performances at the debut of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
The show entitled, “An Evening with the Masters of Jazz” will begin at 8 p.m. at the University of the Virgin Islands’ Reichhold Center for the Arts in support of Parson’s United Jazz Foundation (UJF) and Mentoring Through the Arts of Music education program.
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Marsalis and UJF and Parson are working together for 3 years to improve the music education, awareness and quality of USVI. They have organized several free jazz concerts such as the West Indian Company Limited’s concert series, “Jazz on the Docks” and at International Capital and Management Company’s (ICMC) “Jazz in the Park” concert series.
“Our orchestra plays music from every stylistic period of jazz and features a soloist in every chair and 10 arrangers,” said Marsalis, who also is the managing and art director of the upcoming Jazz at Lincoln Center. “As always, we incorporate education into everything we do. In most every city, we open our sound checks to students and we also host education initiatives, which may include master classes, workshops and lectures.”
“Having the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on the Virgin Islands is truly an exciting moment for us,” said UJF executive director and CEO, Nicole Parson. “This event will serve to help raise awareness for Mentoring Through the Arts of Music and music education on the Virgin Islands and to solidify our partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center, one of the most renowned music education and performance centers in the world. With the orchestra coming here, people will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enjoy the same high-quality cultural entertainment and music that other communities around the globe enjoy regularly.”
The afternoon before the concert, a free master class beginning at 4 p.m. will be held at the Reichhold Center. The concert will also include preconcert and intermission performance by VI Youth Ensemble, and exclusive after party concert where only VIP and invited guests are permitted in a cocktail reception hosted by ICMC.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
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