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2023-24 Roosevelt Jazz ensemble placements are out!

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Dear Roosevelt Jazz Fam, 

Audition results for the 2023-2024 school year are out! All of the directors, myself included, are so impressed by the growth, hard work, and high levels of preparation we’ve seen from every single student who played for us. My heart is overflowing. I’m so dang proud of each of you. It takes so much courage to audition and you all did SO well. The vibe in each audition room was so supportive and positive. You are an incredible group of students and I hope that regardless of your placement, YOU are proud of your hard work, too. This is your loving reminder that your band placement does NOT determine your worth as a musician, nor does it determine your worth as a person. The overall level of musicianship at Roosevelt is so high, and placement into ANY of our groups is an achievement. Your directors have spent meticulous care in curating these rosters and ensuring that each of you is in the ensemble that is the best possible fit.

I’d also like to announce the reinstatement of Jazz Band 4! 🥳The addition of this group is to the benefit of EVERYONE in our program! Because of this implementation, students in every ensemble will get more playing time and more opportunities for individualized instruction: both are recipes for a faster pace of musical growth and an all around more fun experience! This ensemble will meet at the same time as JB3, in a different room, and will be taught by the one and only Deb Schaaf! Deb is an incredible educator and we are SO fortunate she agreed to be on our team. All four of us are stoked for Jazz Band 4 and know that the students are the real winners of this addition.

Now that the 2023-2024 ensembles are placed, I have three action items for our jazz students:

  1. If you are a Jazz Band 1 member for this school year, and this placement will affect your ability to stay enrolled in a second music ensemble (such as percussion or Wind Ensemble), please reply to this email ASAP to let us know. This may result in some shuffling of personnel in our other ensembles. 
  2. If you are in Vocal Jazz, JB2, JB3, or JB4, and are NOT currently enrolled in a curricular pd 1-6 music ensemble, please send the directors email so we can help solve that for you. I know that a couple of incoming freshmen have touched base with me about this already – go ahead and reply to this email anyways to confirm that I have you on my list. 
  3. If you are a pianist in Vocal Jazz, JB2, JB3, or JB4, and would prefer to enroll in CHOIR rather than percussion ensemble to be an accompanist, go ahead and reply to this email as well! If you are a guitarist and would rather SING in choir than play in percussion ensemble, that applies as well! We will get you placed in the right class. 

Stay tuned this summer for communication about our calendar for next school year and our events upcoming this fall! Students and their parents should be notified by email of their 2023-2024 placements. If that is not the case, please email: secretary@rooseveltjazz.org.

From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for all the work that you’ve poured into your musical journey thus far, and I cannot WAIT to see you all in the fall! 💚

Warmly,

Ms. Mowry

 

All ensemble lists are alphabetical order by section.

Jazz Band 1 

Alto

Henry Kelly
Sky Van Scoyoc

Tenor

Taiyo Fuwa
Anna Sayrs

Bari

Kiera Stanford

Trumpet

Aaron Avery
Justin Davies
Simon Harrington
Chloe Mai
Zach Starke

Trombone

Max Baker
Charlie Herzog
Theo Long
Alex Phelps

Piano

Josh Gargett
Atyan Sternberg

Guitar

Annabelle Bauchhuber
Lyla Dalnekoff

Bass

Annie Faul

Drums

Alexander Polyakovsky
Luc Randell

Vocal Jazz

Singers
Giana Acosta
Sydney Bannister
Nicholas Christopher
Evan Dong
Gael Durham
Ellie Gilbertson
Jack Hawley
Carly Holmstrom
Lorelai Kaplan
Alma Liermann
Kate Maschoff
Zachary Monsey
Margot Morris
Alana Purcell
Jules Williams
Julia Weber
Flaminia Zito

Piano

Josh Gargett

Guitar

Henry Burke

Bass

Sienna Winquist

Drums

Momoko Heaton

Jazz Band 2

Alto

Griffin Keen
Katie Torrie

Tenor

Chloe Geer
Finley McIntosh

Bari

Mateo Miozza

Trumpet

Quinn Burwell
Gael Durham
Christian Koll
Eva Lacey
Sam Lerer

Trombone

Will Bailey
Sammy Motto
Henry Vigil
Oscar Zimmerman

Piano

Nat Holland
Max Scwaan

Guitar

Sienna Winquist

Bass

Mae Bodley

Drums

Freddie Abraham-Walker
Hugo Dunn

Jazz Band 3

Alto 

Spencer Chang
Rithik Sundaram

Tenor

Charlotte Bell-Bronzan
Elizabeth Speert

Bari

Luca Chakravarti

Trumpet

Quinn Bruce
Andrew Chung
Ivan Levy
Devon Osborne

Trombone

Rowan Perantatos
Simon Thorton
Theo Van Scoyoc
Ethan Ward

Piano

Quincy Kelly

Guitar

Ellie Gilbertson

Bass

Brigid Bennett
Margot Cox

Drums

Reuben Greenspun

Jazz Band 4

Alto 

Nayeli Pages
Kai Seshadri

Trumpet

Adam Bertelson
Josie Blankenly
Ella Nakagawa

Trombone

Nora Gupta
Finley Ross

Piano

Kate Aliverti

Guitar

Mateo King-Biggers

Bass

Leo Danlekoff

Drums

Cambell Smiley

Innovative, resourceful volunteers help make Vocal Jazz Florida trip a success

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Vocal Jazz made Roosevelt proud at the Jazz Education Network’s 14th Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla., where our 19 students participated in an event billed as part music festival, part networking, part education, and all inspiration! Helping to ensure student success during the Jan. 4-7 conference was a nimble team of Roosevelt parent volunteers and educators who deserve a hearty round of applause from us:

  • VJ parent representative Tracy Hillstrom was the rock star behind the planning, budgeting, and most of the booking, with VJ parent rep Karl Hillstrom jumping in with some of the air travel and ground transportation logistics.
  • VJ parent volunteer Nicole Ross found the outfit to rent an upright bass, with Karl taking care of the final mile in getting the account set up and the delivery in Orlando.
  • VJ parent volunteer Kristen Glibertson was the point person for food, both receiving grocery deliveries, picking up pizzas delivered to a hard-to-describe location, and working with restaurants.
  • Kristen and Karl and JB2/3 Director Michael Van Bebber (who stepped in to chaperone) all helped Vocal Jazz Director Aimee Mell keep an eye on 19 teens while traveling. And, of course, Mr. Van Bebber was the ear of a second jazz educator, as well as helping with some technical stuff for the rhythm section. Thank you, Tracy, Karl, Nicole, Kristen, Mr. Van Bebber and Ms. Mell, for your dedication to Roosevelt Jazz!