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Berklee-Monterey Quartet 2000 Plays Garden Stage Sunday
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From Top: Patrick Cornelius, David Doruzka, Kendrick Scott and Petar Slavov |
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BOSTON, September 11, 2000 -- Berklee College of Music is pleased, for the fifth year, to present some of its finest student musicians in performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival. This year's performance by the Berklee Monterey Quartet 2000 will take place on Sunday, September 17 on the Garden Stage, at 5:00 p.m. The group will be joined onstage by the winner of this year's full-tuition Jimmy Lyons Scholarship to Berklee.
The Berklee Monterey Quartet 2000 Patrick Cornelius '00 (San Antonio, TX), alto saxophone, leader Patrick Cornelius, winner of the Billboard Endowed Scholarship Award 2000, was chosen in 1999 to attend the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, performing in concert with saxophonist and Berklee alumnus Seamus Blake and "Tonight Show" bassist Robert Hurst. In high school in San Antonio, Texas, Patrick won Down Beat magazine's award for Best High School Instrumental Soloist. A National Merit Scholar, Patrick won a scholarship to Berklee and has won three awards since he arrived -- the Frederick Weber Award, the Charlie Parker Award, and the Billboard Scholarship. Patrick has performed with the college's top two jazz ensembles ? the Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra directed by Greg Hopkins, and the Berklee Rainbow Band directed by Phil Wilson. He represented the college in May at New York's famed Blue Note Jazz Club and in July at the UmbriaJazz Festival in Perugia, Italy.
David Doruzka '03 (Prague, Czech Republic), guitar
Since coming to Berklee in 1999, twenty-year-old David Doruzka has received the Jimi Hendrix Award, the Wayne Shorter Award, and the John LaPorta Award. David took up classical guitar at age ten and studied privately for four years. At age 12, he began playing electric guitar, starting with blues and rock, and later turning to jazz. At age 14, David began performing in jazz clubs in Prague and received the Best Talent of the Year award from the Czech Jazz Society. From age 15 to 19 he appeared at major jazz festivals in the Czech Republic and performed his own compositions on several recordings commissioned by Czech Radio. He has also recorded with saxophonist Karel Ruzicka, Jr. (Czech Jazz Society's "Best Record of 1997"), and bassist Jaromir Honzak and Brad Mehldau Trio drummer Jorge Rossy. David has also performed in Poland, Sweden, and the US. At Berklee, David has played with faculty members Phil Wilson and Victor Mendoza, and visiting artist, Cuban drummer Jimmy Branley.
Petar Slavov '02 (Sofia, Bulgaria), bass
Born in Helsinki, Finland, Petar Slavov began playing bass at age 12. At age 14 he was accepted to the prestigious Music School of Sofia, where he studied classical music for five years. Influenced by his friends, he started playing jazz, and soon became the busiest bassist on the Bulgarian jazz scene, playing clubs, concerts, festivals, and TV and radio broadcasts with the country's finest musicians. Petar also performed at festivals and clubs in Germany, Greece, Belgium, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, and Montenegro. At the 1997 jazz festival in Plovdiv, Petar received the award for Best Composition. In 1999 he was nominated for a Golden Harp Award in the Best Bulgarian Jazz Musician category. Since coming to Boston in 1999, Petar has performed with Danilo Perez, David Liebman, Luciana Souza, and Laszlo Gardony, and studied with Darren Barrett, Hal Crook, and George Garzone.
Kendrick Scott '02 (Houston, TX), drums
Kendrick Scott was one of five recipients of the 1999 Clifford Brown/Stan Getz fellowship from IAJE and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. He performed last year with the other honorees at the IAJE conference in Anaheim, and at the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival. Kendrick attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and received the Blue Note Records scholarship to the Skidmore Summer Jazz Institute. In 1998, he received the Annual Down Beat Student Music Scholarship for Outstanding Jazz Performer. Since coming to Berklee, he has performed with alumni Roy Hargrove, Darren Barrett, Reuben Rogers, and Doron Richard Johnson. The recipient of Berklee's Most Active Drummer Award, Kendrick appears on the Berklee "Summa Cum Jazz II" CD, on BMG Jazz Foundations. He represented the college last year at Monterey and at the Phoenix Jazz Festival in Kobe, Japan, and this year at the Blue Note in New York and the UmbriaJazz Festival.
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