youtu.be/A0ZqXIowvrg 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 Rebecca Cline - Piano Youngchae Jeong - Acoustic Bass Helen De La Rosa - Drums About the artists: Originally from the South, an interest in all things Latin American led Rebecca Cline to a degree in Latin American Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill. Primed for an academic career, she instead traveled to the Caribbean to study piano with Jesus “Chucho” Valdes in Cuba and Luis Marin in Puerto Rico before moving to Boston to study at Berklee. Rebecca has performed or recorded with some of the biggest names in Latin Jazz and Jazz, such as Giovanni Hidalgo, Horacio “EL Negro” Hernandez, Steve Nelson, Pedrito Martinez, Robin Eubanks, and others. She has been a performing and recording member of the Latin Band, Mango Blue, since 2005, and performs regularly with her Jazz Trio. Over the last decade, Rebecca has founded and recorded with two bands, Enclave and Obbini Tumbao, and has performed in clubs and festivals across the US, the Caribbean, and India. Rebecca is the author of Latin Jazz Piano Improvisation: Clave, Comping, and Soling and is an Associate Professor of Ensembles and Piano at Berklee College of Music. 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. 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.). 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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