Aaron Prado conducting the "San Antonio Jazz Suite" in 2012 with percussionist, Grammy Award-winning artist and former KRTU host Gerry Gibbs on drums.
This year marks the 300th anniversary since Martín de Alarcón, Governor of Coahuila y Tejas, and Fray Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares established the Mission San Antonio de Valero (later known as the Alamo).
Throughout 2018, San Antonio and Bexar County will celebrate the tricentennial with special events, parties, pachangas and more, to commemorate this historic occasion! An official partner event will be Musical Bridges Around the World's 5th annual International Music Festival, which includes a performance by the International Sister City Jazz Ensemble on Saturday, February 3rd at the Charlene McCombs Empire Theatre.
Under the direction of San Antonio-based composer, educator and musician, Aaron Prado, the International Sister City Jazz Ensemble includes saxophonist Shlomi Kohen (Tel Aviv, Israel); guitarist Prasanna (Chennai, India); guitarist Oscar Zensei Gonzalez, bassist Vico Diaz, vocalist Magos Herrera (Mexico); saxophonist and flutist Anke Schimpf (Darmstadt, Germany); and jazz pianist Sonoda Tomoko (Kumamoto, Japan).
KRTU 91.7 FM will broadcast the performance live, starting at 7:30 p.m. CST, which will conclude with new original music composed by Prado for this SA300 concert. The "San Antonio Jazz Suite" is among Prado's other composition credits, commissioned by then General Manager, Mayor Ron Nirenberg to commemorate "10 Years of Jazz" at KRTU, back in 2012!
The concert will be able to be heard around the world in each of San Antonio's sister cities:
- Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico (Established 1953, first Mexican city to have a US Sister City)
- Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (Established 1974)
- Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Established 1975)
- Gwangju, South Korea (Established 1981)
- Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC (Established 1982)
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Established 1983)
- Kumamoto, Japan (Established 1987)
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Established 2008)
- Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China (Established 2012)
- Windhoek, Namibia (Established 2016)
- Darmstadt, Germany (Established 2016)
http://www.sainternationalrelations.org/sister-cities-program.html
Concert Information & Tickets
Like all Musical Bridges Around the World concerts, this event is FREE with first-come/first-serve seating. Reserved seating available with MBAW season memberships: MBAW Membership Ticket for 2018 International Music Festival ($95)
JJ Lopez, General Manager
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