Blue Hill High School Band scheduled to participate in Jazz Festival

(Hastings, Neb.) – Drummer Tim Froncek, the featured clinician for the 2013 Hastings College Jazz Festival, will give a free public performance on Monday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Ave.) 

 

Throughout the festival, to be held earlier in the day, high school and middle school bands from across the state will perform and then receive immediate feedback on their performance from Froncek.

 

High school bands currently scheduled to participate in the festival and workshop are as follows:

 

Blue Hill

Centennial

Centura

Grand Island Northwest

Grand Island Senior High (2 bands)

Gretna

Hastings Middle School

Hastings Senior High School (2 bands)

Holdrege

Lawrence-Nelson

Lincoln East

Lincoln East Horizons

Lincoln East-Jazz Faction

Lincoln Northeast

Nebraska City

Norris

Perkins County

Skutt Catholic

Waberly

Yutan

 

Bio for Tim Froncek

Voted “Jazz Musician of the Year” in 2004 by the “West Michigan Jazz Society”, Tim Froncek has toured internationally with the Western Jazz Quartet. He also has performed with Woody Herman and The Thundering Herd, Pearl Bailey, and Joe Williams just to name a few.

 

A spirit of excellence has long been the hallmark of the Hastings College music experience. Hastings College students and faculty have been making music from the beginning of the College in 1882. Hastings College is recognized as a National Liberal Arts College in the U.S. News and World Report annual “America’s Best Colleges” issue and a Best Midwestern College by Princeton Review. The Hastings College Department of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music and also was named an All-Steinway School, one of only 82 worldwide.

 

The Department of Music offers a full range of vocal and instrumental opportunities for all Hastings College students. Major ensembles and small groups travel regularly, making special appearances at music conferences, schools, and churches. Vocal ensembles at Hastings College include the renowned Hastings College Choir, Men’s Chorus, HC Singers (treble voices), Spectrum vocal chamber ensembles, along with other special smaller groups. Instrumental ensembles include the Concert Band, Jazz Band, and Marching Band; Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Chamber Orchestra, Brass, and Percussion Ensembles, and the Bell Choir. The department serves as the permanent residence of the South Central Nebraska Children’s Chorale; the Nebraska State High School Honor Choir, Band, and Orchestra; and the Hastings Symphony Orchestra.

 

Music students can earn a Bachelor of Music degree with majors in applied performance, music education, and piano pedagogy. A Bachelor of Arts degree in music with an emphasis in performance, elementary education, music history or sacred music is also available. Hastings College offers a Master of Arts in Teaching with emphasis in music. In addition, the department sponsors student chapters of Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Music Educators National Conference, and Music Teachers National Association.