First Place Winner Jill Sarver
                      with Judge Bob Lenz

                      Some of our Artists

Gene Bertoncini, Master Guitarist & Sara Caswell, Jazz Violinist
with Ike Sturm, Bassist

Come experience what happens when beautiful melodies, luscious harmonies, and driving rhythms combine through the dynamic connection shared between jazz violinist Sara Caswell & guitarist Gene Bertoncini with bassist Ike Sturm. Their repertoire for this concert will draw from the Great American Songbook, jazz standards, classical repertoire, & Brazilian song.

Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility on the violin intertwined with her gift for lyricism are attracting growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher.

Gene Bertoncini is one of the pre-eminent jazz guitarists’ active today. His fluid technique and lyricism have won him international praise and accolades as the ” Segovia of jazz.” An eloquent and versatile improviser, Mr. Bertoncini has been heard with an extraordinary range of jazz greats, including performances and recordings with Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Wayne Shorter, Hubert Laws, Paul Desmond among others, as well as such distinguished singers as Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Nancy Wilson, Vic Damone, and Eydie Gorme.

Ike Sturm is a bassist, composer and bandleader in New York. He serves as Music Director for the Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan (the “Jazz Church”), celebrating a deep tradition of weekly jazz services and memorializing visionaries such as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.

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