Lebanon Valley Jazz Ensemble to Perform Concert April 10

Jazz Concert, April 10, 7:30 p.m., Lutz Hall

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The Lebanon Valley College Jazz Ensemble will perform on Friday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Blair Music Center’s Lutz Hall.

ANNVILLE, PA (03/27/2015)(readMedia)-- The Lebanon Valley College Jazz Ensemble will perform on Friday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Blair Music Center's Lutz Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

This semester's jazz ensemble features 33 student musicians under the direction of Tom Strohman '75, professor emeritus of music. The band will perform a variety of jazz styles, from the traditional sounds of swing to the rhythmic excitement of Latin and jazz fusion, including selections made famous by Chick Corea, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Jerome Kern, Horace Silver, Frank Sinatra, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Numerous students will be featured as soloists throughout the concert.

The LVC Jazz Ensemble was first organized in 1960 under the auspices of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a professional fraternity for men in music. The formative years were spent on campus performing for school functions and serving as an outlet for the musician who enjoyed playing jazz. Many top artists have performed with the band, including LVC alumnus Walt Levinsky, Jerome Richardson, Bill Watrous, Cecil Bridgewater, Bobby Christian, Bobby Rosengarden, Marvin Stamn, Urbie Green, Arnie Lawrence, Tommy Newsome, Harold Danko and Roland Vasquez.

Strohman directs the Jazz Band and Sax Ensemble, teaches Orchestration, and gives private lessons in Saxophone and Jazz Studies. He is a founding member of the jazz ensemble "Third Stream." Strohman started playing piccolo at the age of six. Under the tutelage of his father, H. Herbert Strohman '40, he studied flute, saxophone, and clarinet. Strohman continued his studies at Lebanon Valley College with the late Frank Stachow, eventually graduating with a B.S. in music education. In addition to earning a M.M. in Jazz Performance from Towson University, he has also studied with Joe Allard, Phil Woods, Walter Bishop, Jr., Adolphe Sandole, Charles DeLaney, and John Oberbrunner.

Strohman received the Nevelyn J. Knisley Award for Teaching in 1993 and was honored by the student body as Educator of the Year in 2004 and 2008.

As a freelance musician, he has performed for entertainers Patti Page, Al Martino, Sonny and Cher, Eddie Fisher, The Four Aces, Della Reese, Frankie Avalon, Bobby Vinton, Johnny Mathis, and Clay Aiken. Strohman also recorded for Johnny Winter and Dan Hartman. As a solo performer, he has had the pleasure of working with the following musicians: Bobby Rosengarten, Ira Sullivan, Buddy DeFranco, Al Grey, Steve Gilmore, Dave Stahl, David Schnitter, John Blake, Jonny Coles, Steve Rudolph, and John Von Ohlem. Strohman was inducted into the Central PA Friends of Jazz Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Lebanon County Musicians' Hall of Fame in 2013.

Lebanon Valley College offers numerous public performances by students, faculty, and guests of the College throughout the semester, many of them free and open to the public. For the list of recitals this spring, visit www.lvc.edu/music/events.aspx.