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The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra plays “Omnibus” by Los Angeles pianist Luca Mendoza at the 59th Monterey Jazz Festival. Mendoza received the 2016 Gerald Wilson Award for the winning piece from the Next Generation Jazz Festival’s composition competition. The performance was on Sunday, September 18, 2016 in the Arena at 12:30pm. Mendoza was also accepted to the 2016 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. Photo ©Monterey Jazz Festival / Craig Lovell.

Mendoza, 16 is a junior at Crossroads School in Los Angeles. In 2015, he received an LA Music Center Spotlight Award for piano performance, a DownBeat Student Music Award for composition, and was a National Young Arts Foundation winner. For the past five years, Luca has also participated in Colburn Musical Encounters, which fosters music education throughout Los Angeles inner city schools. He studies piano with Alan Pasqua and Rina Dokshitsky, and is the son of composer and arranger Vince Mendoza. His other awards include first or honorable mentions in the Southwest Youth Music Festival and Glendale classical competitions, as well as Outstanding Solo Award at the 2015 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival. He has also recently performed chamber music with the Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute during a live radio broadcast at the LA County Museum of Art. 

Each year since 2005 at the Next Generation Jazz Festival, the Big Band Composition Competition is open to student composers currently enrolled in high school.

Compositions are judged by college-level music faculty, and the winning composer receives the Gerald Wilson Award, named in honor of the late legendary composer, arranger and trumpeter who was a friend of Monterey Jazz Festival for many years.

The winning composition is performed on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the Arena at the annual Monterey Jazz Festival by the Festival's all-star student band, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the student composer is given the Gerald Wilson Award.

Live at the 2016 Monterey Jazz Festival

Luca Mendoza "Omnibus" at the 59th Monterey Jazz Festival (2016)

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