PARIS — The Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Music Department will hold its ninth annual Evening of Jazz at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, in the school’s Forum.
The concert will feature the school’s Jazz Band under the direction of Kyle Jordan. The Jazz Band most recently performed at the Maine State Jazz Festival held at Westbrook High School on March 15. This 19-person ensemble’s will include works by Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Antonio Carios Jobim.
This year’s headlining artists will be The Thomas Snow Trio featuring Thomas Snow, piano, with Gerhard Grami, bass, and Nick Falk, drums.
Snow is a Maine native and a cum laude graduate of The Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has toured and performed in Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and the United States as a pianist, bandleader and accompanist. In addition to being a pianist, he has been a public and private school music educator, choir director and administrator. Some of the international musicians he has played with include Herb Pomeroy, Nick Brignola, Don Doane, Phil Wilson, guitarist Larry Coryell and Irish tenor John MacNally. Jon Babu of Northeast Performer describes Snow’s piano work as “a bright spot on Maine’s jazz landscape.” Snow lives in South Portland, holds a faculty position at the Portland Conservatory of Music and is music director at Cheverus High School.
Grami studied at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna, Austria, graduating in 1992 with a degree in jazz bass and music education. He has worked as a composer and musician in numerous musical settings, written film scores and contributed to several CD-productions and television and radio specials. Grami has toured Europe, the Middle East and Asia. While maintaining a busy performing schedule, he teaches at Bowdoin College, at the Portland Conservatory of Music and at Waynflete School in Portland.
Falk, a graduate of Cape Elizabeth High School, is in his first year at the Berklee College of Music. He is studying jazz composition and performance. He also studies privately with jazz greats John Ramsay and Bob Gullotti. Falk has received numerous awards for outstanding musicianship at the Berklee College High School Jazz Festival as well as in the state of Maine. He appeared regularly at the Bridgeway Restaurant as a member of the Don Doane Super Senior Sextet. Currently, he is playing in Boston with several groups at such venues as The House of Blues and the Berklee Performance Center.
For more information about Snow, people can check out his Web site at www.tomsnow.com
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