MEZO RAY is cinematic metal band. Blending brutal metallic crunches with melodic futuristic synth layers . Furthermore, the band's direction explores the death of humanity and rise of machines.

The primary objective of the Choral Music Program at KCKCC is to educate the students and the community about vocal ensemble music through stylistic variety and tonal diversity, based on historical precedent. This objective is achieved by exposing choir members to music of different nationalities and/or cultures and their commitment to recreate a unique tone quality that identifies with the cultural environment of each composition.
 
The KCKCC Vocal Jazz Program takes pride in performing professional-level vocal jazz ensemble literature. The music within today’s program represents a crossover of the jazz and popular music idioms. The students in the Vocal Jazz program learn Jazz Education through a variety of methods. First of all, several of the students take private vocal jazz coachings 
weekly. They also perform music by professional vocal ensembles, arrangements by well-known vocal jazz educators, and learn jazz and popular music standards (both through the ensemble and within the private coachings). Lastly, 2/3 of the vocalists in our program are on full-tuition vocal music scholarship from the college (where they can be any major, but must participate in choir and applied voice). 

Director BIO:
John Stafford II is currently the Director of Choral Music Activities at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He was previously appointed at Millikin Univiersity and Eastern Illinois University teaching music composition, theory and orchestration. He holds degrees from Millikin University, Bowling Green State University, and is completing a doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among his professional activities, Professor Stafford serves as the Jazz and Show Choir Chair of the Kansas Choral Directors Association; he is also a member of National Association for Music Educators, Jazz Educators Network, and American Choral Directors Association. Also, Stafford was just appointed in August 2014 as the Director of Music at Community Christian Church in Kansas City, MO.

The Standard, is the award-winning contemporary vocal jazz ensemble from Kansas City Kansas Community College. They have recently been invited performed at the national conferences of the Jazz Education Network, the American Choral Directors Association, and the National Association for Music Education. The Standard has also been selected to perform at the Kansas Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop, the New York Voices Jazz Festival, the Real Group Festival, the New York City Jazz Festival at Jazz at the Lincoln Center and has received a number #1 rating at the University of Northern Colorado/Greeley Jazz Festival. Within the last three years, members of the The Standard have won seven Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards for Outstanding Performance, Live Engineered Recording, Studio Engineered Recording, and Outstanding Soloist in the Community College category. The group has shared the stage with such highly acclaimed artists as Take 6, The New York Voices, m-pact, Carmen Bradford, Dianne Reeves and Marilyn Maye. In December of 2018, The Standard released their first studio recording, Feelin’ Good, and the album has been played on radio stations in over a half dozen states throughout the Midwest. In Spring 2020, The Standard will digitally release their first single recording of Justin Binek’s composition, Reparations, and in Spring 2021, the ensemble will release their second studio album.

Eclipse 6 has just released their 8th album "Sing Thy Grace". All songs created with just the human voice. No instruments. Albums available now on iTunes or at www.Eclipse6.com

Hey yall, my name is Dan Ellison and my passion in this world is MUSIC! I am a singer/songwriter and can't wait to connect with fellow musicians! 

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Natali is a striking talent of the upcoming generation that is consistently forging her own artistic path. 

At the age of seven Natali began interpreting her favourite songs in such an emotive style that all her relatives noticed her talent. A year later, when she started taking lessons with the leading opera singer Lenka Šmídová, a long-time soloist of the National Theatre Opera in Prague, she had already attracted the attention of many professional musicians and leading music producers from all over the world.

Together with concert pianist Ludmila Santini, they performed, among other things, at the baroque castle in Liblice (Central Bohemian Region), in the Vratislav Hall of the Collegiate Chapter of Sts. Peter and Paul in Vyšehrad (Prague) and in Mladota's House at Prague Castle.

Natali es un sorprendente talento de la nueva generación que no deja de forjar su propio camino artístico. 

A los siete años, Natali empezó a interpretar sus canciones favoritas con un estilo tan emotivo que todos sus familiares se dieron cuenta de su talento. Un año más tarde, cuando empezó a tomar clases con la destacada cantante de ópera Lenka Šmídová, solista durante muchos años de la Ópera del Teatro Nacional de Praga, ya había llamado la atención de muchos músicos profesionales y destacados productores musicales de todo el mundo.

Junto con la concertista de piano Ludmila Santini, actuaron, entre otros lugares, en el castillo barroco de Liblice (región de Bohemia Central), en la Sala Vratislav de la Colegiata de San Pedro y San Pablo de Vyšehrad (Praga) y en la Casa de Mladota del Castillo de Praga.

Natali ist ein auffälliges Nachwuchstalent, das konsequent seinen eigenen künstlerischen Weg geht. 

Im Alter von sieben Jahren begann Natali, ihre Lieblingslieder so gefühlvoll zu interpretieren, dass alle ihre Verwandten auf ihr Talent aufmerksam wurden. Als sie ein Jahr später begann, bei der führenden Opernsängerin Lenka Šmídová, einer langjährigen Solistin des Nationaltheaters Prag, Unterricht zu nehmen, waren bereits viele professionelle Musiker und führende Musikproduzenten aus der ganzen Welt auf sie aufmerksam geworden.

Zusammen mit der Konzertpianistin Ludmila Santini traten sie unter anderem im Barockschloss in Liblice (Mittelböhmen), im Vratislav-Saal des Stiftskapitels St. Peter und Paul in Vyšehrad (Prag) und im Mladota-Haus auf der Prager Burg auf.

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