https://youtube/watch?v=Bkqt4bbSoTY Third Thursdays: Midwinter Tropics Ron Savage, Third Thursdays - Music Director Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Berklee Latin All-Stars Directed by Rebecca Cline Christian Marrero - Trumpet Yesseh Furaha Ali, Tenor Saxophone Luis Garcia - Baritone Saxophone Emilio Jose Mendez - Piano Youngchae Jeong - Acoustic Bass Helen De La Rosa - Drums Sergio Maestre - Tumbadoras About the artists: Christian Marrero starting playing trumpet in 6th grade and music quickly became his main interest. Pursuing a deeper understanding of music and jazz brought him to Berklee College of Music to further hone his ability to speak through music. Music has provided a work ethic and passion that applies to other life experiences that he hopes to spread with others through performance and teaching. Yesseh Furaha-Ali is an eighteen-year-old first-year student at Berklee College of Music. Playing music since the age of nine, Furaha-Ali plays number of instruments such as the soprano, alto and tenor saxophone, the Bb clarinet, the bass clarinet, flute, EWI (Electric Woodwind Instrument), piano, and African drums. He had the privilege to perform with and be under the mentorship of many notable musicians; such as Wynton Marsalis, Fred Wesley, Adam Blackstone, Steve Coleman, Danilo Perez, Donald Harrison, Kirk Whalum, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jimmy & Albert “Tootie” Heath, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, David “Fathead” Newman, and many more. Some of Furaha-Ali’s notable accomplishments are receiving three full summer scholarships to the Berklee College of Music’s 5-Week Summer Performance Program in 2012-2014, studying in the 2012 Berklee College of Music Summer Jazz Workshop under the direction of Ms. Terri Lyne Carrington, receiving the Marian Anderson Youth Study performing at Carnegie Hall in Nov. 2012 with the Tim Janis Orchestra which he performed a featured song with Ms. Sarah McLaughlin and Being selected out of high school musicians over the country to be in the 2014 GRAMMY Jazz Ensemble, where he had the honor to perform at Grammy related events throughout the Los Angeles area. Luis Garcia is a third semester contemporary writing and prediction student at Berklee. Born in the Dominican Republic, he moved to New York at the age of nine. A year later, Luis began playing guitar and steel drums in band class in the 5th grade. He switched to the saxophone in middle school and studied with his band teacher, Sergio Larios. He later studied with Venezuelan saxophonist Rolando Briseño. Luis also attended the Middle School Jazz Academy at Lincoln Center and graduated from Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of the Arts and Performing Arts. his biggest musical inspiration was his grandfather, who played guitar and used to play for Luis when he was young and told him that he would become a musician. Emilio Jose Mendez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1996. He began his musical studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina, Puerto Rico in 2006 and continued there until graduated in 2012. While in high school, he received two consecutive scholarship to the Five Week Summer Program at Berklee College of Music in 2013 and 2014, through both the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina and Berklee City Music. Emilio just completed his first semester at Berklee, where he pursues a dual major in Jazz Composition and MP&E (Music Production & Engineering). Youngchae Jeong started the electric bass guitar in 2006 and also the contrabass in 2010. He has played the electric bass guitar in various bands and the contrabass in church orchestras, and has also performed classical music in the Korea Military Academy band. Currently, the study jazz music and various other genres at Berklee College of Music. Youngchae plays the bass for two reasons. He remembers his first concert; his techniques were awfully unskilled, but he felt he was alive. The other reason he plays is to heal. He believes in exodus. Like the Israel people who were rescued from Egypt, he believes that everyone deserves to escape from hardships through music. His future aspirations also arise from this belief. First of all, he hopes to learn to play the bass at Berklee and second, to use it to heal people by teaching or playing music where music is difficult to find. Helen De La Rosa was born in 1991 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. When she was 7 years old, she began her musical studies as a classical guitarist. At the age of 9, she started taking drums lessons with well-known Dominican drummer, Ezequiel Francisco. After completing her basic studies and earning awards from several classical guitar competitions, she was admitted at the National Conservatory of Music. While at the Conservatory, she received a diploma in “Harmony, Arrangement and Composition” from another music program, directed by Corey Allen (Arranger, composer and pianist of the jazz band featuring Chuck Mangione and The Manhattan Transfer). She recorded drums for the prominent Dominican arranger, Socrates Garcia’s latest album “Back Home”. After graduating from the National Conservatory, she received a presidential scholarship at Berklee College of Music, where she pursues a dual major un Performance and Contemporary Writing and Production and a minor in Music Production and Engineering. She also received the well-known “Bunker Studio” in Brooklyn, NY (among the artists that have recorded there are Brad Mehldau, Mark Guiliana, Jason Linder, Panagiotis Andreu, etc.). Sergio Maestre began studying music at age seven in his hometown of Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from the prestigious Colegio Emil Friedman in Caracas, and also studied at the Simon Bolivar Conservatory of Music. A virtuoso maracas player, he has performed with the ensemble and symphony orchestra at Colegio Emil Friedman, as well as Virtuosi de Caracas, C4 Trio, Ensemble Gurrufio, Goyo Reyna, Ulyses Ascanio, and several youth orchestras in Venezuela. Sergio has also performed with noted popular ensembles, including Grupo CAMBA and Grupo Venezolaniao. He has studied classical, Latin, contemporary, and folk music in Venezuela, under the best national reachers. Sergio has also performed under the direction of both national and international orchestra conductors, including Gustavo Dudamel. He currently studies at Berklee College of Music where he has performed with big names such as Rebecca Cline, Greg Hopkins, Paquito D’ Rivera, Mark Walker, Eguie Castrillo, Dave Samuels, and many others. Third Thursdays is presented by Bank of America. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway The Museum operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
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