Limelight: A Conversation in Sound. Join the ICO and classical violinist and jazz trumpeter, Justin S. Kinchen, for an afternoon of enjoyable music on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 3pm at the Schrott Center for the Arts (Butler University).
Up-and-coming, multitalented musician and composer Justin S. Kinchen will return to his hometown and be joined by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Matthew Kraemer and accompanied by several guest artists for an afternoon of a wide range of musical genres from classical to jazz to contemporary. Justin will engage the audience by playing violin, trumpet, and piano, singing, and conducting the orchestra. Featuring unreleased music from two very different albums, Out at Sea and Yours Truly, he will showcase his unique musical voice.
The performance will be presented by The Indianapolis (IN) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated, to benefit the Indianapolis community through chapter programming for adults and teens and scholarships for local youth through the Links Foundation.
Tickets for LIMELIGHT: A Conversation in Sound are on sale now and can be purchased at the following link: https://www.butlerartscenter.org/performances/limelight/ .
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Justin S. Kinchen is a recent honors graduate of the Frost School of Music (University of Miami) where he majored in classical violin performance and minored in jazz trumpet performance. During his formative years in Indianapolis, he has been nurtured by numerous local musicians in both the classical and jazz communities in Indianapolis and has benefited from experiences playing with the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s Side-By-Side program, as well as the Indiana All State orchestra, concert band, and jazz band. His musical voice continues to grow as a current Henry Mancini Fellow at the Frost School of Music, where he is pursuing a Masters Degree in Violin Performance as well as a Masters Degree in Studio Jazz writing. His growth as a conductor continues under the direction of Maestro Gerard Schwarz. Justin recently performed as concertmaster in back-to-back concerts on consecutive weekends for the Henri Mancini Institute Jazz Orchestra and for the Frost Symphony Orchestra, January-February 2025. In this upcoming concert at the Schrott, in addition to the ICO, Justin will be accompanied by professional jazz musicians from Miami, Chicago, and Austin as well as artists well known here in Indianapolis and far beyond, including saxophonists Todd Williams and Rob Dixon, trumpeters Clifford Ratliff and Mark Buselli, bassists Jonathan Wood and Bill Myers, and drummer Cassius Goens as well as band members Willie Bays, Peter Goggin, Sofia Kraevska and Scott Routenberg.
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