POSTPONED: Jazz Series: Jim Ketch Quintet
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Jim Ketch is currently Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an educator, Professor Ketch is the recipient of the two highest teaching awards granted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Ketch’s students have appeared in Conferences of the International Trumpet Guild as finalists in the Mock Orchestra and Jazz Improvisation Competitions. Former students perform professionally in orchestras and military ensembles, are active educators at both the university, collegiate and high school levels, and pursuing graduate study at leading universities across the country.
Jim Ketch’s career reveals a deep passion for the performance and teaching of music. He is a versatile and experienced artist with considerable skills in both the classical and jazz idioms. As a professional trumpeter and conductor, he has performed internationally in England, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Mr. Ketch has performed with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, the Mallarme Chamber Players, the Crown Chamber Brass, the Triangle Brass Band, numerous pit orchestras for touring Broadway shows, and the pit orchestra for the North Carolina Theater. As a freelance musician and educator Mr. Ketch has appeared with an extensive list of popular and jazz artists including: The Temptations, The Four Tops, Natalie Cole, Ben E. King, The Manhattan Transfer, John Pizzarelli, The Gene Krupa Orchestra, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the Ray McKinley Orchestra, the Ted Weems Orchestra, The Marcus Roberts Trio, Tom Harrell, Byron Stripling, Slide Hampton, Herlin Riley, Victor Goines, Ron Westray, Steve Wilson, Terri Lynne Carrington, Greg Gisbert, Joe Magnarelli, Joel Frahm, and many others.
Representing Agent: Gigi Thigpen
(919) 632.8181 bookings-jazze@live.com
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