Hoff-Barthelson Music School Students "All That Jazz" Free Performance June 7

The Hoff-Barthelson Music School will present its jazz department students in a performance of original and jazz standards in Scarsdale's Chase Park on Sunday, June 7 at 5 pm.  Broadway's Next to Normal composers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey have written an original composition that the band will play.

The program is entitled All That Jazz and will feature several of the Music School's smokin' student jazz ensembles. The ensembles will perform a delightful cross-section of American jazz standards as well as pieces composed and arranged by the students and faculty. The students will be joined by jazz faculty members in a variety of jazz combos.

On the June 7 program will be a performance of the fourth annual premiere of a jazz composition written specifically for the School's Advanced Jazz Ensemble. Pulitzer Prize and Tony winners for their Broadway hit Next to Normal Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey have written a piece for soprano and jazz ensemble titled I Call That Home. Kitt and Yorkey were represented on Broadway this season by the Idina Menzel star vehicle If/Then, which was nominated for a 2014 Tony Award for Best Score. The team is currently at work on a musical version of the movie Freaky Friday.

Previous commissions for the HBMS jazz department featured compositions by international jazz greats pianist Ted Rosenthal and baritone horn player Gary Smulyan and New York Philharmonic bassist David Grossman.

Hoff-Barthelson's Jazz Studies Program is under the direction of jazz saxophonist Ed Palermo, a well-known performer and recording artist in the jazz world. The jazz faculty includes several of the most distinguished jazz artists in the New York area, who teach jazz lessons, composition, improvisation and musicianship and coach a range of ensembles geared to all levels of the more than sixty students who study jazz at the Music School. Students perform several times throughout the year on student recitals and during the School's Music Festivals.

One of Westchester County's most cherished and active cultural resources, the Music School has achieved national recognition as a premier community music school for its unsurpassed leadership in education, performance and outreach since 1944.

The program is open to the public free of charge. Bring a blanket and a picnic! For more information visit: www.hbms.org, [email protected], or call: 914-723-1169.

Note: In case of inclement weather the concert will be held at the Music School, 25 School Lane, Scarsdale, NY, 10583.