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At age 17, Barron Collier High School junior Chris Sochor has written a jazz concerto, a piano suite and any number of shorter pieces bubbling up from his music-steeped mind.
He s about to have something only a few composers his age get, however: hearing it performed for an audience by a jazz orchestra. The premiere is this Sunday at Artis Naples. Not that Chris will have the luxury of enjoying it from the audience he s the featured pianist in the Concerto of the Unheard, which the Naples Youth Jazz Orchestra performs in concert. (For tickets, see the information box with this story.)
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Apr 28, 2021
The Byron Center High School Jazz Band is in the running for the Essentially Ellington Award.
The band is among 15 schools across the nation nominated for the festival and competition in honor of jazz legend Duke Ellington.
Byron Center Fine Arts Director Marc Townley says the process includes public, private, fine arts and community schools that all blindly audition with a Duke Ellington piece.
The competition will be held virtually on June 4 and 5.
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The band was among 15 across the country invited to play at Lincoln Center’s Virtual Essentially Ellington Festival, a prestigious event being held in New York in June.