West Michigan Concert Winds 2009

Ticket Prices:
$15.00 - Adult
$10.00 - Senior (62 & Over) and Student (18 & Over)
FREE - Children under 18 do not require a ticket.

The concert will feature jazz arrangements for concert band. Tim Froncek and his Trio will be featured.

Tim Froncek Trio
Steve Talaga, Piano
Matt Heredia, Acoustic Bass
Tim Froncek, Drumset

The trio has been seen recently around Grand Rapids as a quartet with Tom Stansell on Tenor Sax. This quartet plus one additional horn toured France last spring, and is returning to headline a jazz fest in the French alps this coming February 2010!

Steve Talaga has a Masters in composition from Western Michigan University and was selected jazz musician of the year 2008 by the West Michigan jazz Society. He is an awesome jazz pianist.

Matt Heredia is a product of Western Michigan University and Julliard School of Music. He has moved back to West Michigan, to our great benefit.

Drummer Tim Froncek is one of today’s busiest and most respected performers. Voted 2004’s “Jazz Musician of the Year” by the West Michigan Jazz Society, he can be seen performing on drumset, directing big bands, giving clinics an lectures on jazz, and judging the many jazz festivals in the mid-west. Mr. Froncek has performed with such jazz greats as Woody Herman the Thundering Herd, Bobby Shew, Bill Watrous Randy Brecker, Phil Woods, Rufus Reid, Jon Faddis, Hal Galper, Clark Terry, John Patitucci, Bill Mays, John Clayton, Marcus Printup, Terry Gibbs, Wess Warmdaddy Anderson, David Fat Head Newman, Wycliffe Gordon, Brother Jack McDuff, Peral Bailey, and Joe Williams, just to name a few.

Mr. Froncek not only performs locally, but also tours internationally with the Western Jazz Quartet, performing throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Mr. Froncek is musical director with two of the mid-west’s premier big bands, the Muskegon based “Truth In Jazz Orchestra” (TIJO) and the newly reorganized “Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra” (GRJO) and he directs the jazz program at the Blue Lake Summer Festival. He is an affiliate professor at Grand Valley State University and teaches on the Jazz Studies faculty at Western Michigan University. In fact, Tim has taught at every major university in the state of Michigan.