Fohi Jazz Band Competes at Reno Jazz Festival
The Fontana High
School Jazz Band was one of more than 330 middle, high school and college groups
participating in the 43rd Annual University of Nevada, Reno Jazz Festival on
April 21-23, 2005. Directed by Robert Hess, the Fohi Jazz Band placed 4th
out of 17 schools in their Division. Three Fohi students, Jose Aguilar,
Carlos Reynosa, and Eunice Ortega, received Outstanding Individual
Musicianship Awards.
The Fohi Jazz Band is
a talented group of young musicians that perform at various school and community
events. Each year the Jazz Band travels and competes at the highly
acclaimed Reno Jazz Festival, which is one of the oldest and largest educational
festivals in the west.
World-class jazz
artists, music educators and thousands of jazz students from throughout the west
spend three days immersed in live-jazz performance, competitions and clinics.
This year's evening concerts featured jazz superstars, including Fred Hersch and
saxophonist Kenny Garrett with his quartet. The festival closed Saturday
evening with the Festival Showcase and Awards Ceremony in the university's
Lawlor Events Center, which included encore performances by some of the best
groups and soloists at the festival.
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