Essentially Ellington

Featuring Scott Silbert, saxophone

10AM Clinics, Workshops and Performances
7:30PM Headline Performance

Essentially Ellington, a premier educational initiative of Jazz at Lincoln Center, returns to Shenandoah Conservatory with a day of workshops for high school bands and performances by special guest artists. This year’s headline performance features saxophonist Scott Silbert and Essentially Ellington guest artists from Lincoln Center.

About Scott Silbert

A multiple woodwind player and arranger, Scott Silbert joined the Navy Commodores big band in 1991 on baritone saxophone, then in 1998 became the chief arranger for the United States Navy Band for fifteen years until his retirement in 2017. Prior to joining the Navy, he performed at Disney World for nine years. Silbert has been a featured soloist on many national and international concert tours, at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference, the Saxophone Symposium, the Midwest Clinic, the Detroit-Montreux Jazz Festival, and at numerous local concert venues in the D.C. area. Additionally, he performs with the prestigious Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and has composed/arranged more than 200 works for the ensemble. Recently, he has stepped into the role of band leader with his own small group and big band, both ensembles being new favorites for the massive DCLX swing dance community. Silbert’s first album as leader, Introducing the Scott Silbert Big Band: Jump Children, features some of the lesser performed big band works of the 1930s and 40s, and is now available on both CD as well as a complete digital download.

Digital Program

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Essentially Ellington

Through its annual Essentially Ellington program, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) co-produces education-focused festivals designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers. Participating bands receive professional feedback from JALC clinicians and other jazz professionals in their own backyard.

Learn More about Essentially Ellington at Shenandoah Conservatory

Photos by Suzette Niess Photography and courtesy of artist