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Jazz and show choir clinician Ly Tartell is coming to UW-La Crosse Friday and Saturday, Jan. 20 and 21.
[caption id="attachment_8741" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=" Jazz and show choir clinician Ly Tartell is coming to campus Jan. 20 and 21."][/caption]Popular clinician Ly Tartell is guest musician
Local jazz enthusiasts will have the opportunity to hear several regional vocal jazz choirs while they work with a top vocal clinician.
UW-L’s two vocal jazz ensembles and several guest high school vocal jazz choirs will study under Ly Tartell, the clinician and guest vocal performer at UW-L’s Jazz Fest Friday and Saturday, Jan. 20 and 21.
Tartell ‘s solo career was developed as an undergraduate at the University of Miami and as a graduate student at Western Michigan University. She served as a featured performer for the Walt Disney Corp. where she sang with several legendary artists including Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney and Maureen McGovern. Tartell released her first solo CD, “The Call,” in 2011.
The popular music educator travels throughout North America serving as a clinician and director of All-State jazz and show choirs, as well as various regional choral festivals. She directed vocal jazz, women’s and mixed choirs at Purdue University from 1997-2003.
Tartell will work and perform with UW-L’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble I and II as the singers prepare to host and perform for high school vocal jazz ensembles Saturday, Jan. 21. Tartell and Gary Walth, UW-L’s vocal jazz director, will critique and serve as clinicians for this non-competitive festival.
Saturday’s clinic sessions begin at 9:30 a.m. and end with a 4 p.m. performance by Tartell and UW-L’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble I. Six high school vocal jazz ensembles will perform throughout the day. The event in Annett Recital Hall, in UW-L’s Center for the Arts, is open and free to the public. The instrumental portion of Jazz Fest is competitive and runs Saturday in Cartwright Center, It concludes with a 7 p.m. concert in Valhalla.
If you go—
Who: Vocal Clinician Ly Tartell with UW-L Jazz Ensembles and high school groups
What: Vocal jazz performances
When: 9:30 a.m. and ends with a 4 p.m. performance by Tartell and UW-L’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble I
Where: Annett Recital Hall, UW-L Center for the Arts
Admission: Free
Find out more about the Jazz Fest here.
Get a schedule of performers and more at: http://www.uwlax.edu/jazzstudies/Festival.html