The SFJAZZ High School All-Stars display a technical brilliance and musical maturity rarely seen in the youth ensemble arena. Don’t miss the All-Stars in concert and support the next generation of jazz ambassadors!

ABOUT THE SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STARS A pre-professional training program for current Bay Area high school age jazz musicians, the All-Stars rehearse and perform throughout the school year at the SFJAZZ Center, receive mentorship and clinics with leading jazz professionals, record a professional studio album, compose and arrange original music in addition to studying a wide range of repertoire, and appear at prestigious music festivals and competitions. Although it may be a cliché to boast that the future of jazz is in good hands, the skilled young musicians in our All-Stars program continue to earn accolades wherever they appear, including a 2025 Downbeat Award for Large Ensemble and numerous Outstanding Honors awards at the Essentially Ellington regional festival in Las Vegas.

Set List
Combo – Unanimity by Joshua Redman

Big Band
‘Deed I Do (Composed by Walter Hirsch and Fred Rose, and arranged by John Clayton
If I Only Had Seven Giant Brains (Composed by Glenn Wilson, and arranged by Scott Ninmer)
Little B’s Poem (Composed by Bobby Hutcherson, and arranged by Evan Wiederanders)
Oye Como Va (Composed by Tito Puente, and arranged by Rebeca Mauleón)
Special Guest: Masaki Shinohara, trumpet

Intermission
Combo – Original Rays by Michael Brecker (Sax, Electric Bass, Piano/Nord, Drums)
Combo – Glass Blower by Yoav Konig (Violin, Trumpet, Sax, Piano, Bass, Drums)

Big Band
The Ravine (Composed and arranged by Erica Seguine)
What’s Going On (Composed by Marvin Gaye, Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson, and Al Cleveland and arranged by Quincy Jones)
Encore: After You’ve Gone (Composed by H. Creamer and T. Layton, and arranged by Bill Holman)

Personnel
ALTO SAX HARRY JO JAZZ JOHNSON NATE EIZEN TENOR SAX AYO BRAME JAKE QUAN MICHAEL RIM
BARITONE SAX NAVEEN SCHWARZKOPF
TROMBONE AARON HOLST ANDREAS LANDHUIS JOSHUA GURVIS RYAN CUNNINGHAM VITO SANTE MARCACCI TRUMPET ABIGAIL HOGG
DIEGO QUINONES KAI DOITEL LEVI FARRAR ROHINI VRAJMOHAN SAMUEL SUTTON GUITAR SAMUEL WISE
PIANO ELENA WENG EVAN WIEDERANDERS SALOME OSPINA
BASS LEVI FREEDMAN YOAV KONIG

DRUMS LEO WORNICK SHANE RYAN PERCUSSION MARIO BARRAGAN VOCALS JOSHUA PRABHAKAR JULES BLANCAFLOR TANVI KUMAR (violin) ALTERNATES GREYSON FARRAR baritone sax IRIS CHEN tenor sax JAMIE SEGILMAN guitar JULIAN DEERY bass MASON GEMMER trumpet MATTHEW VASQUEZ trombone SAI RAY trumpet

MENTEES AMALIA GOULD drums ELIOT VALZ guitar RYAN LUONG bass trombone

Big Band Director
Paul Contos has been involved in jazz performance and education for nearly fifty years. His contributions to the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Education Program as Saxophone Clinician and Director of both The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra and Monterey County All-Stars are distinguished and thoroughly comprehensive.

Contos is a faculty member at University of California, Santa Cruz and California State University, Monterey Bay, having singularly developed the curriculum for the Music Recording/Technology Concentration at CSUMB. He is also a founder of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz. Contos has received performer grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2017 received DownBeat Magazine’s Jazz Education Achievement Award. He also serves as Artist in Residence for the California Arts Council.

Contos has played and recorded with many of the Bay Area’s finest jazz artists, including Ray Drummond, Eddie Marshall, and Madeline Eastman, and has shared the stage with
such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, Regina Carter, Wayne Shorter, and many others.