Tarleton Jazz Festival
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
STEPHENVILLE, Texas —Internationally renowned drummer Ari Hoenig headlines the 57th annual Tarleton State University Jazz Festival, an outreach of the department of fine arts, on Friday and Saturday, March 22-23.
The festival’s signature concert is slated for 7:30 p.m. Friday in the theater of the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center in Stephenville. Hoenig will perform with the Tarleton Faculty Jazz Combo with guests Ben Markley and Dan Jonas.
Area high school jazz bands will perform and be judged Saturday, followed by a 7:30 p.m. awards concert in the Fine Arts Center auditorium, again featuring Hoenig.
General admission for Friday’s Faculty Jazz Combo concert is $10. Tickets for Saturday’s awards concert are $5.
Hoenig attended the University of North Texas for three years, where he studied with Ed Soph while playing with the “One O’Clock” Lab Band. After transferring to William Paterson College in northern New Jersey, he began playing for legendary Philadelphia organist Shirley Scott and working regularly in New York.
Hoenig moved to Brooklyn and found himself playing with a variety of artists, including the Jean-Michel Pilc Trio, the Kenny Werner Trio, Chris Potter, the Kurt Rosenwinkel Group, the Joshua Redman Elastic Band, the Jazz Mandolin Project and bands led by Wayne Krantz, Mike Stern, c and Pat Martino.
Hoenig has also shared the stage with Herbie Hancock, Ivan Linz, Wynton Marsalis, Toots Thielemans, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano and Gerry Mulligan. In 2013 he won the prestigious BMW Welt Jazz Award in Munich, an international competition for best band led by a drummer.
As an educator, Hoenig teaches privately and is on faculty at New York University and the New School for Social Research in New York. He gives clinics and lectures at music schools and universities worldwide, and writes an educational column for Modern Drummer magazine.
Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today’s scholars into tomorrow’s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.
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Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist
817-484-4415
priddle@tarleton.edu
