Saratoga Orchestra: American Classics & Jazz
$25 ($20 senior/military)
Aaron Copland — Variations on a Shaker Melody
Leonard Bernstein — West Side Story
George Gershwin — Selected works
Katyrose Jordan, alto sax & vocals
Angelique Poteat, clarinet
John Wylie, tenor sax (USN – 7th Fleet Navy Band)
Keegan Harshman, jazz bass
Julian Garvue, piano
Gould – American Salute
Copland – Variations on a Shaker Melody
Gershwin – Songs from the Great American Songbook
Bernstein – Selections from West Side Story
Also featuring students from the South Whidbey, Coupeville, and Oak Harbor jazz ensembles!
Katyrose Jordan is a 2017 graduate of South Whidbey High School and currently a student at University of Washington. Katyrose discovered music as her first love when she began playing violin at age three; she continued to play and love the instrument, though she developed a desire to learn more instruments and more genres outside of classical violin. She is now an avid lover and student of jazz, fiddle, folk, and acoustic music, and loves to sing, play the flute, saxophone, and guitar in equal measure.
Angelique Poteat, Saratoga Orchestra’s Principal Clarinet, is a 2004 graduate of South Whidbey High School. She has appeared as a soloist with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, of which she is also Principal Clarinetist. An active musician, Angelique has performed with the Seattle Chamber Players, Seattle Modern Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, among other groups. As a composer, her music has been recorded and performed in Australia, Germany, Lithuania, and all over the United States by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Enso Quartet, Philharmonia Northwest, Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, and Saratoga Orchestra. One notable performance includes her Beyond Much Difference (2014), a piece commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and performed during the January 2015 Sonic Evolution concert with Mike McCready, Chris Cornell, and members of the bands, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden.
John Wylie studied music at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He enlisted as a bandsman in the Navy in 2006 and served in the United States Seventh Fleet Band in Yokosuka, Japan, performing throughout southeast Asia. He then served as an instructor at the Naval School of Music, where he reached the rank of Musician First Class. John continues to serve on active duty in Naval Aviation at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
Keegan Harshman, jazz bassist, attended Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, CA after graduating from South Whidbey High School in 2010. An active performer in Central California’s thriving jazz scene, Keegan became heavily involved with Brazilian music and had the chance to study and perform in Brazil in 2013. This past year, Keegan moved back to Whidbey with his young family and opened Blue Sound Music in Langley. He continues to have a busy performance schedule both locally and in California.
Julian Garvue is a jazz and classical pianist from Seattle, Washington now living in New York City. Highly praised for his virtuosity and sense of style, Garvue has been making a name for himself nationally as co-leader of the progressive jazz quintet The Arsonists” A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Julian performed as part of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble (EJE), sharing the stage with saxophonist Dave Glasser at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York City. In addition, Julian is also an award-winning soloist having been recognized for his playing by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Reno Jazz Festival.
About Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island
Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra formed as an expansion of the Saratoga Chamber Players founded by Whidbey Island's legendary violinist and arts supporter, Michael Nutt. Previously known as Saratoga Chamber Orchestra, the name is derived from the beautiful Saratoga Passage that flanks the east side of Whidbey Island and the stand of trees known as the Saratoga Woods. In 2007, Legh W. Burns, Music Director Emeritus, began a regular concert series performing throughout the island for Whidbey audiences. Dr. Anna Edwards has led the orchestra as Music Director since 2015, and has brought national attention to the ensemble for its innovative programming championing women, BIPOC and underrepresented composers and hosting the highly esteemed Pacific Northwest Conducting Institute held each summer.
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