The Jazz Combo program at Shenandoah Conservatory is designed to offer students experiences in small group settings, emphasizing improvisation and expanding repertoire. Each combo explores a variety of styles and composers, with a particular emphasis on bebop and hard bop. Other styles, such as cool, fusion, and Dixieland, are explored.

The combos perform throughout the semester on and off campus, at formal concerts, informal jazz forums and in area nightspots. Student arrangements and musical compositions are also an important part of the repertoire.

 

Audition Information

Membership to the Jazz Combos is by audition only.

Instrumental Ensemble Audition Materials

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SHENANDOAH CONSERVATORY INVITES provides instrumental high school students multiple opportunities each year to make music with Shenandoah faculty, students and ensembles. Musicians playing string, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments will find events enabling intensive study with Shenandoah’s world-class faculty and the opportunity to make music alongside current conservatory students. Each of these events take place on Shenandoah’s beautiful Winchester campus.

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