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URL:https://music.colostate.edu/events/virtuoso-series-concert-peter-somme
 r-saxophone-guest-ben-markley-piano/
SUMMARY:Virtuoso Series Concert: Peter Sommer\, Saxophone & Guest\, Ben Mar
 kley\, Piano
DESCRIPTION:The Great American Songbook \n\nCSU Saxophone Professor Peter S
 ommer and University of Wyoming Director of Jazz Studies Ben Markley prese
 nt a program of standards from the Great American Songbook\, including mus
 ic by Cole Porter\, George Gershwin\, Duke Ellington\, and many more! An e
 vening of duo jazz\, featuring saxophone and piano in an intimate setting\
 , highlighting Sommer and Markley's individual voices and long collaborati
 on in a pared down instrumentation. We hope you can join us for a night of
  beautiful ballads and swinging classics! \n\nPeter Sommer is Associate P
 rofessor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at Colorado State University and se
 rves as the Woodwind Area Coordinator for the School of Music\, Theatre an
 d Dance. He is a D’Addario Woodwinds Artist and performs exclusively on 
 Select Jazz and Reserve Reeds on all of his instruments. Sommer has contri
 buted his energetic and graceful playing and creative spirit to a wide var
 iety of musical projects ranging from mainstream bebop to classic and cont
 emporary concert music to avant-garde improvisations at venues across the 
 nation and around the world.\n\nBen Markley\, a jazz pianist\, has perform
 ed with Brian Lynch\, Greg Osby\, Eddie Henderson\, Terell Stafford\, Geor
 ge Garzone\, and John Fedchock. Markley is active as a composer and arrang
 er with many big bands and vocal jazz charts published through UNC Jazz Pr
 ess. Recent arranging commissions include the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelph
 ia and Wyoming Jazz Educators All-State Jazz Band. Compositions from Markl
 eyʼs first two albums have earned him ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Awards. 
 Markley was selected to participate in the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program
  held at the Kennedy Center. Markley currently serves as Director of Jazz 
 Studies at the University of Wyoming where he directs and coaches the Wyom
 ing Jazz Ensemble\, and combos. He also teaches applied jazz piano\, impro
 visation and is the director of the UW Jazz Festival.
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LOCATION:Organ Recital Hall\, University Center for the Arts\, 1400 Remingo
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