Youth Showcase at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival
The 2013-2014 edition
of the elite high school jazz ensemble, the Dakota Combo, announces final
performances of the year. The Dakota Combo is a program of the MacPhail Center
for Music, in partnership with the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education (DFJE).
Initiated in fall 2006, the Combo is selected each September through open
auditions, and rehearse and perform throughout the school year under the
direction of Adam Linz, Jazz Coordinator for the MacPhail Center for
Music. Graduates of the program have moved on to study at the nation’s
top music programs, including the Berklee College of Music, Brubeck Institute,
The Juilliard School, New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Oberlin
Conservatory, Lawrence Conservatory and New England Conservatory of Music.
This year’s Combo is a septet including Jack Courtright (trombone, Apple Valley
High School), Ben Ehrlich (drums, Wayzata High School), Peter Goggin
(saxophone, Mounds View High School), Will Kjeer (piano, Home School), Levi
Schwartzberg (vibraphone, Southwest High School), Aiden Sponheim (trumpet,
Southwest High School) and Sam Worthington (bass, Mounds View High Scho
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