The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors Perform At The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater On April 24
Published: 2015-04-07
Berklee College of Music presents the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, in a program featuring the members’ original compositions, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on April 24. The quintet is composed of students attending the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI). The concert is part of the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project, a showcase for outstanding students from America’s finest music colleges and conservatories.
The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors’ free performance takes place Friday, April 24, at 6:00 p.m., in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C. The concert will be webcast live, and archived for later viewing, at Kennedy-Center.org, where past Berklee performances are also archived.
The BGJI is a performance program designed to foster creativity and musicianship through various musical disciplines, with Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Danilo Pérez as its artistic director. Faculty members include John Patitucci, George Garzone, Joe Lovano, and Terri Lyne Carrington. The institute provides a comprehensive contemporary music environment in which students are given opportunities to explore their creativity to the highest-level possible, advance the power of music as a tool for the betterment of society, and connect musical creative thinking with the natural environment.
This is the 12th season of the Conservatory Project. Since the project’s inception, Berklee students have presented jazz, country, salsa, bluegrass, folk/rock, an improvising string orchestra, silent film orchestra, flamenco, and Middle Eastern fusion.
About the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors Drummer Noam Israeli, a native of Israel, was a finalist in the 2012 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Israeli started playing piano at an early age and switched to drums at 13. At 15, music teacher Amit Golan introduced Israeli to jazz and encouraged him to attend the prestigious Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts. At Berklee, he is majoring in music production and engineering and performance. In 2014, he was awarded the Billboard Endowed Scholarship.
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