2023-2024
Performance Series
Opelika Center for the Performing Arts
Jonathan Dely and his ALL-STAR BAND
April 3, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 | 7:30 p.m.
Opelika Center for the Performing Arts
Jonathan Dely and his ALL-STAR BAND
PROGRAM
“Goodbye Jonathan’s Soul”
In this 18-minute short film, directed by Bob Giraldi, best known for directing the music video for Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Jonathan Dely portrays himself in his debut as an actor. He has graduated from a private liberal arts school in the Berkshires, won a coveted position on Wall Street with a prestigious investment bank, and realizes that in achieving one dream, he must give up the other. Even though Dely had shown promise as a young musician, earning finalist honors in the National Trumpet Competition, International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition, and the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, In the culture he was raised in, music was a hobby, not a career.
Live Concert
Songs to be announced from the stage
ALL-STAR BAND
musicians: Nick Hetko (piano/keyboard), Joel Powell (acoustic/electric bass), Louis Newsom (drums), Marc Malsegna (guitar)
Jonathan Dely and his ALL-STAR BAND
BIO
Heralded as the “next Chris Botti,” Jonathan Dely leads his All-Star Band across the United States at venues including Lincoln Center in New York, SFJAZZ in San Francisco, and The NAMM Show in Los Angeles.
After declining a full-time, sixfigure investment banking position on Wall Street to become a solo trumpet artist, Dely earned finalist honors in the National Trumpet Competition, the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition, and the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition, and has in short time become a rising star jazz artist.
In 2023, Dely’s journey from Wall Street to the stage caught the eye of legendary filmmaker Bob Giraldi, director of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” music video, who cast Jonathan to star in his newest short film, Goodbye Jonathan’s Soul, the story of a young musician on the precipice of accepting a lucrative Wall-Street job who wrestles with leaving his jazz band behind forever. Dely composed and performed the film’s music at Giraldi’s request.
Dely graduated with honors from Williams College before earning his Master’s on scholarship at Manhattan School of Music.
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