BROADWAY!!
For the 5th year, UTD's premier performing
ensembles, UTD Chamber Singers, directed
by Kathryn Evans and the UTD Jazz Band,
directed by Kelly Durbin come together.
This year, they will delight audiences in
an evening of Broadway favorites by George
Gershwin, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers.
About the UTD Chamber Singers…
The UTD Chamber Singers was formed in 1994
as a performing ensemble of 20-24 singers.
The repertoire for the ensemble is selected
from a broad range of chamber vocal literature,
including both sacred and secular music
spanning the Renaissance to the contemporary
periods of music history and modern jazz
arrangements. The ensemble performs regularly
on campus, including performances at the
Renaissance Faire, the Annual Holiday Sing
during the Fall Semester, and in concert
as a Jazz Singers Ensemble in the Spring
Semester. The UTD Chamber Singers collaborates
with many other ensembles on campus, including
the Jazz Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble and Dance
Ensemble. They also perform on the Winter
and Spring Arts Festivals every semester.
In the Spring, the Chamber Singers join
the UTD Chorale for a choral concert of
large works with orchestra.
Past concerts have included “A Tribute
to the Manhattan Transfer,” “All
Mozart Concert,” “Swing Thing,”
“Birds, Beasts and Bugs,” “A
Victorian Christmas” and “A
Celebration of Monteverdi.”
Students must audition and be accepted in
order to enroll in Chamber Singers. Auditions
are arranged in the Spring for new students
and before every long semester during the
registration periods.
About the UTD Jazz Band…
The UTD Jazz Band, directed by jazz pianist
Kelly Durbin, is a large jazz band of students
interested in “keeping their chops
up” and playing in a jazz band. The
UTD Jazz Band repertoire draws from a variety
of music in the jazz tradition ranging from
early swing music (e.g. Count Basie, Glenn
Miller) to bebop and hard bop ( e.g. Horace
Silver, Art Blakey, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy
Gillespie) to current jazz compositions
and arrangements. Players are called upon
to play swing, rock, funk, latin, and other
styles. In addition to performing in an
Arts Festival at the end of each semester,
the Jazz Band also collaborates with the
Chamber Singers each spring to present a
thematic concert (past concerts have included
tributes to swing music and Duke Ellington).
The Jazz Band has performed for various
University functions (e.g. parties for visiting
dignitaries), and gives informal concerts
around campus.
Students enrolled in the Jazz Band must
provide their own instruments (the University
provides drum kit, baritone sax, keyboards
and amplifiers). Auditions are heard at
the beginning of each semester. The Jazz
Band is not limited to the traditional brass
and woodwinds players normally associated
with jazz bands, but is open to any instrumentalist
who would like to audition. Jazz improvisation
skills are not required, but students are
encouraged to develop these skills throughout
the semester. The class rehearses twice
per week, and is a 3 credit hour course.
Students may repeat the course up to 3 times
for elective credit towards their degree
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