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ST JoHN FiSHeR cATHolic HigH ScHool JAZZ oRcHeSTRA The St John Fisher Catholic High School Jazz Orchestra has been playing in one form or other at St John Fisher School for well over 25 years. In this time, it has developed from a simple Swing Band to a full scale Big Band who have achieved national success. Under their Director, Nigel Beetles, they are the current Harrogate Festival Jazz ensemble winners and are regularly in demand across Yorkshire and further afield to perform at many different engagements. The band regularly works with national Jazz artists and were delighted to workshop with MOBO award winning saxophone player Soweto Kinch in July 2011. The Caboose was written for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra by their Musical Director and renowned trumpet player Wynton Marsalis. The Big Train is a suite of pieces that includes All Aboard, The Sleeper Car and Night Train - all depicting the varied sounds and history of the American Rail Network. The Caboose has a continuous 3/4 riff that sounds k-knock, k-knock...Goes the Big Train in the East, Goes the Big Train in the West. Performers Dominic Bates*, Alice Bryant, Lucy Callaghan, Ed Dennis*, Eloise Dunn, Isaac Dunn*, Louis Durkan, Tim Hurst*, Blake La Bonte, Charlie Lancaster, Charlie Manchester, Jack Manchester, Connor Mansfield, Sarah McHugh, Matthew McKernan, Jamie O'Neill, Alice Pye, Dominique Simpson, Sam Smith, Caroline Sykes, Peter Thomson, Evan Tillotsen, Jacob Tomlinson, Robert Turnbull, Patrick Viles, Gavin Walters*
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Wade in the Water is a traditional American spiritual and has been specially arranged for this collaboration by Mark Hayes and orchestrated for Swing Band by Nigel Beetles, Assistant Head at St John Fisher Catholic High School. This is a great representation of how successfully the Associated Sixth Form at the two schools works and the groups are delighted to be collaborating this evening.
This string ensemble is one of the ensembles of Brighton and Hove Music and Arts, formed by Andrew Sherwood in 1994. They were proud last year to perform for Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for Schools, in London at Parliament as part of an advocacy campaign by the Federation of Music Services. This year they shared a performance with the Trinity Laban String Ensemble which still happened despite deep snow and most of the players and audience having to walk to the venue as transport had broken down. The ensemble works collaboratively with the University of Brighton. One of their best known fans is Bob Hoskins who fondly refers to it as ‘my band’.
ST AIDAN'S HIGH SCHOOL CHAMBER CHOIR & ST JOHN FISHER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL JAzz ORCHESTRA
Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, priest and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. He is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe. Vivaldi is known mainly for composing instrumental concertos, especially for the violin, as well as sacred choral works and over forty operas. Although Vivaldi's music was well received during his lifetime, it later declined in popularity until its vigorous revival in the first half of the 20th century. Today, he ranks among the most popular and widely recorded Baroque composers. The Concerto for Two Cellos is Vivaldi’s only true ‘double’ cello concerto. Violin 1 Jamie-Lee Glinsman, Morwenna Hawkins*, Alex Hill, Avalon Ridler, Oliver Turvey, Corey Wickens Violin 2 DannyIel Hodd*, Isabel Manning, Julia Palmer, Iona Rose, Jenny Seong, Lizzie Walker Viola Adam Pickard, Polly Ryland Richey*, Tom Widdicombe Cello Shabnam Gould, Halumi Hayazumi Dennis, Tim Lambert, Oliver Pickard, Milan Tarascas*
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