BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artsboston.org//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artsboston.org X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130619T020236CEST-1754FhWH9t@artsboston.org DTSTAMP:20130619T000236Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Jazz at Lincoln Center's 'Monday Nights with WBGO' Series\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/440958007/Jazz_a t_Lincoln_Centers_Monday_Nights_with_WBGO_Series\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-1 1-01\nEvent Date End: 2010-11-01\n\nJazz at Lincoln Center's 'Monday Night s with WBGO' series\, which showcases talent from top U.S. college jazz pr ograms\, will feature the Berklee Global Jazz Institute Octet\, Monday\, N ovember 1\, at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola. The Octet is comprised of students from Japan\, Israel\, Ireland\, Korea\, Spain\, Portland\, Oregon\, and Br ooklyn. The performance will be hosted by WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton. The Be rklee Global Jazz Institute Octet will perform at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Ticke ts are $20 for general admission\; $10 with a valid student ID. For ticket information\, visit http://jalc.org. Dizzy's Club Coca Cola is located at Jazz at Lincoln Center\, 33 West 60th Street\, Fl. 11\, in New York. Un der the direction of world-renowned pianist Danilo Perez\, the Berklee Glo bal Jazz Institute (BGJI) is a unique focused area of study at the college designed to foster creativity and musicianship through various musical di sciplines. Perez serves as its artistic director. Students may pursue a pe rformance degree\, diploma\, or two-year certificate through the institute . The BGJI has three main goals: to provide an interdisciplinary music p rogram where students may explore their creativity to the highest level\; to explore the social power of music as a tool for the betterment of socie ty\; and to connect musical creative thinking with the restoration of natu re. For more information\, visit: http://www.berklee.edu/focused/global-ja zz The Berklee Global Jazz Institute Octet - bios: Holon\, Israel\, nat ive Eyal Shmuel Hai is currently majoring in performance at Berklee Colleg e of Music. After completing his military service as lead alto saxophonist for the Israel Defense Forces Orchestra\, Hai studied at the Jerusalem Ac ademy of Music and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. In 200 7\, he won second place in Israel's prestigious Jazz Player competition an d was selected to attend IASA in Siena\, Italy. The event yielded a live a lbum that included one of Hai's original compositions. Matthew Halpin is a tenor saxophonist from Dublin\, Ireland\, currently pursuing a degree in performance and jazz composition at Berklee. In 2009\, he was one of only two international recipients of Berklee's full-tuition Presidential Schol arship. He has played in many bands as a leader and as a member of renowne d large ensembles like RTE National Concert Orchestra\, the Dublin City Bi g Band\, and the Riam Big Band. He was a headlining performer at the 2009 Sligo Jazz Project\, a festival at which he'd been a student for the two p revious years. Halpin has studied with George Garzone\, Rudresh Mahanthapp a\, Branford Marsalis\, and Jamie Oehlers. Before coming to Berklee\, he s tudied classical music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. At 18\, violi nist Alex Hargreaves of Corvallis\, Oregon\, has already received countles s honors including the Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin from Mark O'Connor's S trings Conference\, and the Alternative Styles Award from the American Str ings Teachers Association (ASTA). Hargreaves was also the youngest ever (a ge 15) to win the Grand Champion division at the National Oldtime Fiddlers ' Contest in Weiser\, Idaho. In 2009\, he won the Grand Masters Fiddle Cha mpionship in Nashville and performed on the Grand Ole Opry. He has played on stages around the world including Austin City Limits\, the Hardly Stric tly Bluegrass Festival\, Merlefest\, Rockygrass\, Wintergrass\, and the Ma ndolines De Lunel Festival in Lunel\, France. Guitarist Kenji Herbert\, w hose mother is Japanese and father Austrian\, was born in Vienna but grew up in Osaka and Kobe. In 2004\, he attended Jazz and Improvised Music Salz burg\, where he studied with renowned musicians Jim Black\, Mark Dresser\, George Garzone\, Ingrid Jensen\, Nguyen Le\, Huw Warren\, and his uncle P eter Herbert. From 2006&ndash\;08 he was a student of Wolfgang Muthspiel a t the City of Basel Music Academy in Switzerland\, and in 2009\, he began attending Berklee on scholarship. Herbert has toured Japan and Europe as a leader and sideman of various bands\, and has performed at the Offbeat Ja zz Festival Basel and JazzWerkstatt Wien in Vienna. Takeshi Ohbayashi\, f rom Hiroshima\, Japan\, is a pianist-turned-trumpeter who recently came ba ck to the piano to pursue his love for jazz. After establishing himself in Hiroshima and Tokyo\, Ohbayashi won a scholarship to attend Berklee\, whe re he studies with JoAnne Brackeen\, Hal Crook\, Terri Lyne Carrington\, D anilo Perez\, Ralph Peterson\, and Dave Santoro. In 2007\, he was one of 1 6 finalists chosen from hundreds of applicants worldwide to compete in the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition. Though he has played music since t he age of 4\, Spanish percussionist Jorge Pé\;rez was a track star a nd aspiring architect before he began pursuing music as a career. After en rolling at Escuela de Musica Creativa\, a top jazz school in Spain\, he st arted performing regularly in Madrid. He met several Cuban musicians at gi gs\, which led him to Cuba to study Afro-Cuban percussion with Jose Luis Q uintana &ldquo\;Changuito.' After his second visit to Cuba in 2008\, Perez recorded his debut album\, Patax\, and leaned Flamenco singing and dancin g from Brazilian vocalist Mario Toledo. The following year\, he released h is second studio album\, Forced Emancipation. Since enrolling at Berklee\, he has collaborated with Mariano Martos\, Oscar Stagnaro\, Nando Michelin \, Rebecca Cline\, and many others. Mark Whitfield Jr. is a drummer from Brooklyn. He made his first concert appearance at age 2 as a guest drumme r with his father\, guitarist Mark Whitfield\, and clarinet legend Alvin B atiste\, at the Varsity Theater at Louisiana State University. At 4\, he a ppeared with his father's quartet on the Good Morning America 1994 Thanksg iving Day broadcast\, and he would continue to perform with his father thr oughout his early years. Whitfield has opened shows for the likes of Peter Cincotti and Chris Botti\, and performed at the Newport\, Duke Ellington\ , and Monterey Jazz Festivals. He is currently on full scholarship at Berk lee\, where he studies with Hal Crook\, Joe Lovano\, Terri Lyne Carrington \, and Ralph Peterson. Jeonglim Yang is an electric and acoustic bassist from Jeju\, South Korea. After graduating from high school in 2002\, she b egan playing with many of South Korea's finest jazz musicians and building her own reputation as a top-level player. She enrolled at Berklee in 2007 \, and has since performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival a nd at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club in a scholarship ensemble led by Bill Pierce\, Berklee's chair of woodwinds. Yang now performs regularly at Bos ton's iconic Wally's Jazz Café\;\, where she is house bassist\, as w ell as at other venues around the city.\n\nStart time: 7:30 PM\, 9:30PM DTSTART:20101101T000000 DTEND:20101101T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Jazz at Lincoln Center's 'Monday Nights with WBGO' Series TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR