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To buy via phone, please call 410-385-2638.
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Peabody Student Jazz Night
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Mon, 05/10/10
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(1111 days ago)
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From: 07:30 PM
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To: 09:00 PM
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Location: An die Musk Live Gallery
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Contact:
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410.385.2638
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Steve Synk, bass
Kevin B. Clark, guitar
Jonathan Baez, percussion
Mark Meadows, piano
Join us for four springtime Monday evenings of exceptional jazz by these gifted and accomplished young musicians!
All tickets $5
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Steve Synk is a Jazz Bassist in the Baltimore/D.C. area. In his freshman year at River Hill High School, Steve began playing with his school’s big band and jazz combo. After his junior year of high school, he received a scholarship to attend the Eastman School of Music’s 2-week Summer Jazz Program for high school students, where he studied with Jeff Campbell and John Nyrges. The following year, he was selected to perform with the Maryland All-State Jazz Ensemble, and, upon graduation in 2009, was awarded the Louis Armstrong Award for excellence in Jazz. Steve has studied with bassists Joshua Davis and Adam Hopkins. In the Spring of 2009, he accepted the Richard and Elizabeth Case Jazz Scholarship to attend the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD, and he is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Bass Performance under the guidance of Michael Formanek.
Kevin B. Clark is a jazz guitarist from Long Island, currently residing in Baltimore. He began his musical studies on guitar at age 13. By the time Mr. Clark was 15, he concentrated primarily on Jazz. Mr. Clark has performed with such groups as the Peabody Jazz Orchestra, the Peabody Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble, the Garden City Jazz Ensemble, the Nassau-Suffolk Jazz Ensemble, and the Adelphi University high school Jazz combo. In 2008, Mr. Clark performed at the North Texas State Jazz Festival, earning an “Outstanding Soloist” award. He was also designated a finalist for the 2008 Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble, which accepted applicants from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Other awards Mr. Clark has earned include the 2008 Louis Armstrong Jazz award from Garden City High School, the 2008 Barry Manilow Music Scholarship from Garden City High School, and the 2008 Max Corzilius Jazz Scholarship from the Peabody Conservatory. In 2010, he played three concerts in Kawasaki, Japan representing the city of Baltimore. Mr. Clark’s primary teachers have included Paul Bollenback, Stephen Salerno, and Jimi Durso. He has performed with numerous premier jazz artists, including John Abercrombie, Gary Thomas, David Binney, Jack Wilkins, and Dave Pietro. Mr. Clark is currently a Bachelor of Music student at the famed Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he studies with Paul Bollenback.
Jazz Percussionist Jonathan Baez, a native of Rockville Centre, New York, began playing drums at age 10. Throughout his high school career, he was a member of the Nassau Suffolk Jazz Ensemble, The Nassau All-County Jazz Ensemble, The Adelphi University High School Jazz Combo, and was an Alternate for The All State Jazz Ensemble. He was also selected as a finalist for the 2009 Grammy Jazz Ensembles, as well as the 2009 Jazz Band of America. While playing with the Adelphi Jazz Combo, Jonathan traveled to the North Texas Jazz Festival, where he received outstanding soloist awards, as well as placing first in the combo competition in both 2008 and 2009. Jonathan attended the five week performance program at Berklee College of Music during the summers of 2007 and 2008 on scholariship.Jonathan has studied with Frank Bellucci, Jim Black and Dan Weiss. He has been fortunate to perform with jazz artists Gene Bertoncini, David Binney, Steve Salerno, and David Lobenstein. He is currently a freshman at The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he is in the studio of Nasar Abadey.
Mark Meadows was born on March 27, 1989 in Washington, D.C. Three years later, his dad, a part time journeyman gospel and jazz vocalist, bought him a little Casio keyboard and invited Mark to “have at it”. By the time Mark was four, he had attended more than ten jazz concerts and performances, including one sitting directly adjacent to the high end of the piano featuring Shirley Horn at the “One Step Down” in D.C. Mark also experienced his dad’s jazz and gospel vocal performances at the ripe age of 4. Mark and his family moved to Dallas, Texas at the age of five where Mark studied classical piano under the stern but loving eye of Dr. Rosalie LeVant, a renowned Russian born and highly regarded classical pianist. Years later, Julie Bonk, a respected Dallas jazz pianist and teacher of Grammy Award-winning artist Norah Jones, took the 13-year-old under her wings after hearing him play Debussy’s “Clair De Lune.”
Throughout Mark’s high school years, he performed with the BTW Jazz Combo 1 and BTW MIDI Ensemble. After perfecting his skills at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, it wasn’t long before Mark began to display his gifts and talents to the public. Some of Mark’s accolades include him being featured on “Good Morning Texas” on WFAA Channel 8 (2008), being awarded “Best Pop Rock Solo in North America” by Downbeat magazine (2008), performing at the Kennedy Center with the Peabody Jazz Lab Band (2008), releasing his first album “A Child is Born” (2008), being awarded “2nd Best Pop Rock Composition in North America” by Downbeat magazine (2007), playing for Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex and youngest child of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh (2007), touring Los Angeles, CA alongside Ingrid Jenson, Lisa Henry, and BTW’s Jazz Septet (2007), and much more. Mark taught piano on Saturdays and was the resident pianist at North East Bible Church before graduating in the top 5% of his class from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, in Dallas, TX.
Currently, Mark is a double degree junior at Johns Hopkins University. He studies psychology at Hopkins and jazz piano under Tim Murphy at The Peabody Conservatory. Mark is the music director of Faith Christian Fellowship Church, Baltimore, MD, provides musical therapy at the Synder Center for Aphasia Learning Enhancement facility, and works at Sheppard Pratt Hospital with psychologically disabled adolescent boys. Mark Meadows continues to push himself to new heights, hoping one day to become a successful psychologist and musician, reaching the world through his spirit, his mind, and his music.
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