Jazz Band
The jazz ensembles are open to you, whether you've had extensive experience or none at all. Once you're at camp, you will be placed by audition into one of three big bands. If you are an advanced player, you will join the jazz workshop, where you'll play alongside School of Music faculty and camp staff. You will be placed into other combos by audition and according to need. The camp explores all aspects of jazz performance.
David Stambler, jazz studies
David Stambler, assistant professor of saxophone, is originally from the
Washington, D.C., area. He has established himself as a dynamic teacher and musician throughout the United States, performing both jazz and classical music. Stambler is active as a
recital and symphonic soloist, and as "on-call" saxophonist with many orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Bay Atlantic Symphony, the National
Gallery Orchestra, and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at the JVC Jazz festival, the Princeton Jazz Fest, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Kennedy Center, and
has accompanied many of the top entertainers in the world today.
Stambler's premieres include November by Elam Sprenkle with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Dos Movimientos by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez with the Bay Atlantic Symphony, and compositions by John Harbison, Gunther Schuller, and Michael Colgrass through the Worldwide Concurrent Premieres and Commission Fund. He has recorded with the Baltimore Symphony, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and the Capitol Quartet, and can be heard playing clarinet and saxophone on dozens of nationally broadcast radio and television commercials. As tenor saxophonist and arranger with the Capitol Quartet, he performs frequently in recital venues and with symphony orchestras nationwide.
Stambler studied clarinet at the Oberlin Conservatory, and then received his bachelor of music degree in saxophone from The University of Michigan, where he was a student of Donald Sinta. He holds a master of music degree from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and is currently finishing doctoral studies at the University of Maryland. He is stepping in as the new director of the Jazz option of Penn State's High School Summer Music Camp program.
For more information about the jazz band, contact:
David Stambler
E-mail: summermusic@outreach.psu.edu
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