#96-10-26
For Release: 10-25-96
Contact: Peter Bailley

Eighteen students have been selected to the Knox College Jazz Ensemble for 1996-97. Membership in the ensemble is by audition. The award-winning group is directed by Scott Garlock, assistant professor of music.

The Ensemble will perform a benefit concert for the United Way of Knox County at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg.

Saxophones

Kevin Malley, alto, Galesburg, IL (section leader)

Amanda Petrinelli, alto, St. Louis, MO

Catherine Smith, tenor, Washington, IL

Christopher Warfield, tenor, Platteville, WI

Gabriel Patti, baritone, Colorado Springs, CO

Trumpets

Mark Alford, Troy, IL (section leader)

Ronnie Cristobal, Peoria, IL

Erin Severs, Fort Wayne, IN

Melissa Gazo, Sheboygan, WI

Joel Fleminger, University City, MO

Trombones

Justin Richardson, Galesburg, IL (section leader)

Matt Frederick, St. Louis, MO

Andrew Darby, Ainsworth, IA

Brian Kerr, Knoxville, IL

Rhythm

Ben Latimer, Grinnell, IA

Dave Lowry, percussion, St. Louis, MO

Joe Metzka, guitar, Chillicothe, IL

Jamey Ryan, Columbus, OH

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.