CSM Jazz Festival Concert
March 26, 2022
07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
La Plata Campus, Fine Arts Center, Brad and Linda Gottfried Theater
CSM Jazz Festival Concert
CSM’s Jazz Ensemble, “Solid Brass,” directed by Randall Runyon, is a community jazz band with membership consisting of CSM students, several military band veterans, and members of the community.
Guest artist Denis "Denny" DiBlasio received his master’s degree from the University of Miami. Denny is the Executive Director of the Maynard Ferguson Institute of Jazz at Rowan University. He is a saxophonist, flautist, composer, arranger, full-time professor and director of the Jazz Performance and Composition Programs at Rowan University and an internationally acclaimed performer, clinician, and educator for the Yamaha Music Corporation of America. Denny is a published author of five texts on jazz improvisation, recording artist for Encounter and RadScape Records with 12 CDs under his own name. He is creator of various articles, is a YouTube presenter, and composer of etude books for flute, clarinet, and saxophone. Denny’s online program Composer’s Bootcamp is available through Northeastern Music Publications. His compositions, articles, and arrangements are available through publishers Jamey Aebersold, Belwin, Hal Leonard, Kendor, Doug Beach, Roncorp, Vandoren, Kjos, Northeastern Music, Warner Brothers, Flute Talk, and Saxophone Journal.
- March 26 | 7:30 p.m.
For more information, visit www.csmd.edu/Arts or contact us at bxoffc@csmd.edu or 301-934-7828.