Western Michigan "Gold Company Sextet" to Visit SCN

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Students in the vocal jazz area are in for a special treat on April 27 when a select subset of the one and only Gold Company will perform at SCN. This is an incredible opportunity! The Gold Company bio appears below.

About Gold Company

The Gold Company Program is widely
recognized as one of the most successful and prestigious collegiate vocal jazz programs in the world. The ensembles perform a wide variety of repertoire which covers all styles in the contemporary vocal idiom.

Gold Company combines the fundamental musical elements from the traditional choral style with stylistic characteristics from the jazz vernacular
with an emphasis on improvisation and swing.

Appearing throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and South Africa.

The groups have appeared at the World Symposium on Choral Music, the national conventions of MENC and IAJE, and the divisional conventions of ACDA, as well as performing at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and
the 1st Annual Ella Fitzgerald Vocal Jazz Festival.

Gold Company has also appeared with guest artists including Bobby McFerrin, Janis Siegel, Mark Murphy, Rosemary Clooney, Kurt Elling, The Manhattan Transfer, Jon Hendricks, Darmon Meader, and Don Shelton and Bonnie
Herman of The Singers Unlimited. In addition, Gold Company has had the honor of performing arrangements specifically written for the group by talents such as Fred Hersch, Gene Puerling, Clare Fischer, Darmon
Meader, Michele Weir and Duane Davis, as well as Gold Company alumni including Jennifer Shelton Barnes, Greg Jasperse, Matt Falker, Tim Brent, Derek Fawcett, Justin Avery, Justin Binek, and Ly Tartell, among others.

Gold Company has recorded several audio and video demo tapes for Hal Leonard Publications , Shawnee Press and Heritage Music Press. Additionally, students and ensembles within the Program have been awarded over 45
“DB” awards from Down Beat Magazine, more than any other collegiate vocal program.