Guest With CSM Big Band
Sat, 27 Oct
|CIT Cork School of Music
Guesting with CIT Cork School Of Music Big Band. Directed By Cormac McCarthy Curtis Auditorium, Cork School Of Music
Time & Location
27 Oct 2018, 12:00
CIT Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Ballintemple, Cork, Co. Cork, T12 E9HY, Ireland
About the event
CSM Jazz Big Band
Formed in 1992 as a special project of the Cork School of Music and the Guinness Jazz Festival, the CSM Jazz Big Band is a twenty-two strong ensemble of five saxophones, five trumpets, four trombones, rhythm section, and vocalists. The Band plays a wide variety of traditional and modern jazz compositions created by such composers as Bill Holman, Maria Schneider, Oliver Nelson, and Bob Mintzer; and from the repertoire of the great big bands of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Buddy Rich et al; and increasingly from the pens of our own student composers and arrangers.
The young musicians, aged 16 to 25, are full-time students on the B.Mus, BAPM and M.A. degree courses at the School and have a wide experience of music-making ranging from symphony orchestra to small group work. Many have gone on from the Jazz Project to further study abroad and former members…