Blake Williams (Cambridge High School) and Matt Penman (New York)
Eight Cambridge High School students were among more than 60 involved in a jazz workshop organised by Waikato based music educator Paul Norman at Waikato University on Saturday.
Finnian Fleming-Thomas (former Cambridge High School), Aaron Goldberg (New York) Hunter Davis (Cambridge High School).
The tutors were bass player and New Zealand ex-pat Matt Penman and pianist Aaron Goldberg, both from New York, and Auckland pair Dixen Nacey (guitar) and Adam Tobeck (drums).
The workshop focused on the jazz standard Caravan which is the required piece for the New Zealand Youth Jazz Festival this year. A concert followed in the evening.
The Cambridge students included Blake Williams, who plays bass in the Cambridge High School Jazz band and is one of the head students and Hunter Davis, who plays guitar in the band and learned this month that he has won a New Zealand Qualifications Authority music scholarship. Hunter, who plans to study jazz at university next year has also been selected as the only guitar player for the NZ Youth Big Band.
Blake Williams (Cambridge High School) and Matt Penman (New York)
