Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble plays music by winners of the IAWM/PJCE Jazz Composition prize
Featuring Migiwa Miyajima, Samantha Spear, Jhoely Garay, Yu Nishiyama and Eliana Fishbeyn.

Since 2018, the International Association for Women in Music (IAWM) awards an annual Jazz Composition Prize co-sponsored by PJCE. Through this partnership, PJCE has been introduced to up-and-coming composers across the country. At 7:00 pm on Saturday, January 28, 2023 in Portland State University’s Lincoln Recital Hall, PJCE will perform music by all five of the winning composers: Jhoely Garay (NYC), Migiwa Miyahima (NYC), Yu Nishiyama (NYC), Sam Spear (Boston), and Eliana Fishbeyn, all lauded instrumentalists and band leaders in their own right.  Surrounding Alliance, PJCE will host a panel discussion and guest composers will work with area university students. 

Composers: Joseph Herbst, Yu Nishiyama, John Sturino Big Band
Woodwinds: Ben Kono, Ethan Helm, Jeremy Powell, John Lowery, Jay Rattman
Trumpet: Roger Garcia Jr., Josh Deutsch, David Adewumi, Andrew Stephens
Trombone: Nick Grinder, Jasim Perales, Sam Blakeslee, Jennifer Wharton
Tammy Huynh -vocals
Martha Kato -piano
Olli Hirvonen -guitar
Evan Gregor -bass
John Sturino -drums

Innovative and exciting concert series showcasing large jazz ensemble music of up-and-coming composers at The Jazz Gallery, since 2014. We will be featuring music of Joseph Herbst, Yu Nishiyama and John Sturino.

1st set 7:30

2nd set 9:30

Montclair Brewery

The Hagner/Nishiyama Big Band is a 17-piece jazz large ensemble led by Skyler Hagner and Yu Nishiyama. The big band plays a wide variety of styles and features original compositions by Skyler, a member of the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop, and Yu, who is a winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer’s Award in 2019. The Hagner/Nishiyama Big Band is part of the contemporary jazz large ensemble scene in New York, with their music pulling from a wide variety of influences including Japanese culture, classical music, and free improvisation, among others.

Saxophones: Gideon Forbes, Phil Engsberg, Tim Murphy, Diego Ferreira, Skyler Hagner
Trumpets: Fareed Simpson Hankins (lead), Rafael castillo-halvorssen, Jonny Gittings, Andrew Wagner
Trombones: Stephen Justice, Peter Lin, Caleb Rumley, Tim Newman (bass)
Guitar: Dave D'Arville
Piano: Caelan Cardello
Bass: Daseul Kim
Drums: Colleen Clark

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$10 cover