. Brent Trottier Middle School's Big Band will perform at their annual fundraiser event, An Evening of Jazz, on Thursday, June 11th at 7:00pm. The band will perform an entire evening of jazz pieces that showcase their talents and hard work this year and they are excited to welcome back special guest trumpeter and recording artist Summer Camargo. The Trottier Big Band, under the long-time direction of Jamison Clark, has been a Gold Medal Recipient from the Massachusetts Association of Jazz Educators from 2008-2019 and 2022-2026, and 10-time winners at the Clark Terry/UNH Jazz Festival.
This year the band was honored to be chosen as 90.5 WICN Worcester Public Radio’s Featured Artist for June in their “Emerging Artist” series, which supports rising Jazz+ talent from across the greater Worcester/Central Massachusetts region. A concert recording of the band was made at Trottier by a WICN engineer, and that concert will be featured this Friday, June 5th from noon to 1 pm, and again on Saturday, June 6th from 11 am to noon. On Friday, WICN will host the band members and their parents for a listening party, and on Saturday, Jamie Clark will join program host Howard Caplan on the air during The Saturday Swing Session to talk about the band and share interview clips with the students. WICN has been a long-time sponsor and supporter of An
Evening of Jazz.
https://wicn.org/event/the-trottier-middle-school-big-band/
An Evening of Jazz will feature the acclaimed jazz trumpeter, composer, and recording artist Summer Camargo, who was also their special guest in 2024. Camargo released her first album To Whom I Love in 2024, and since 2022 she has been a member of the Saturday Night Live House Band. Camargo also tours internationally, performs regularly in New York City with the Mingus Big Band and at jazz clubs like Dizzy’s at Lincoln Center and Birdland and plays in the orchestra for the Broadway hit musical Just In Time. She was named one of DownBeat Magazine’s “25 for the Future” in their July 2024 issue, NPR’s Jazz Night in America program featured her in “Jazz Youngbloods, 2023” as one of five exciting artists under 30, highlighting her for “infusing new energy into today’s jazz scene.” Camargo completed her Masters Degree at The Juilliard School in Jazz Studies (trumpet) in 2024; as an undergraduate at Juilliard she was a Jerome Green Fellowship recipient and completed her Bachelor’s Degree in 2023. Camargo is also an alumna of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival from 2017-2019, where she earned awards including Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Award, the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award, and the Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest. https://www.summercamargo.com/
Each year, the Jazz Night showcase concert collects donations for admission, and the Big Band parents bake treats that will be available at intermission for a donation as well. All proceeds this year will be donated
