The Cal Poly Jazz Ensembles will present a concert titled “Sounds of Harmony” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 6, in Spanos Theatre on campus.
The concert will feature performances by the University Jazz Band, Vocal Jazz Ensemble and four Jazz Combos.
Guest vocalist Inga Swearingen will join the Vocal Jazz Ensemble for its set which will include “Centerpiece” by Harry Edison and Jon Hendricks, “Company” by Rosana Eckert, and Jennifer Barnes’ arrangement of Steve Allee’s “Art’s Groove.”
The Jazz Combos will perform a mix of standards and original student arrangements, and the University Jazz Band will play selections by Les Hooper, Jeff Jarvis, Mike Tomaro, Wayne Wallace, and other renowned composers.
Swearingen is a native of San Luis Obispo county. She sang and studied voice at San Luis Obispo High School, Cuesta College and at Cal Poly. She also studied at the Musik Hochschule in Lucerne, Switzerland, and earned her master’s degree in choral conducting from Florida State University. She performed for the renowned radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion,” more than a dozen times; was a first-place winner at the Montreux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition; and was a featured soloist in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She teaches jazz voice, songwriting and musicianship at Cuesta College.
Jamaal Baptiste directs the University Jazz Band and Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and Dylan Johnson directs the Jazz Combos.
Tickets to the concert are $22 for the public, and $12 for students and San Luis Obispo Jazz Federation members. Event parking is sponsored by the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available at the Cal Poly Ticket Office between noon and 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. To order by phone, call 805-SLO-4TIX (805-756-4849).
The event is sponsored by Cal Poly’s Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program.
For more information, visit the Music Department’s calendar website,
https://music.calpoly.edu/calendar/jazz
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