"La Habanera" Beat Kaestli with the Levine School Jazz Quintet

The Levine Jazz Quintet and Swiss jazz vocalist Beat Kaestli continue their three-year collaboration at the beautiful and elegant residence of the Swiss Ambassador on November 19, 2009.

Bizet's "La Habanera" performed by:
Beat Kaestli, vocals
with the Levine School Jazz Quintet:
Chris Battistone, trumpet
Noah Getz, saxophone
Pepe Gonzalez, bass
Andrew Hare, percussion
Robert Sykes, piano

Levine School of Music, the Washington DC region's preeminent center for music education, is a welcoming community where children and adults find lifelong inspiration and joy through learning, performing, listening to, and participating with others in music. Our distinguished faculty offers a broad and well-rounded curriculum that provides a strong musical foundation for more than 3,500 students of all ages, abilities and interests at four campuses in Northwest and Southeast DC, the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland, and Arlington, Virginia.

Levine is proud to offer a series of performances and events recognized for their breadth, excellence and imagination. Levine presents outstanding performers in an intimate and friendly community setting. Also, the audience will see a preview of the next generation of performers in our competitions, master classes, and student concerts. Please join the Levine community for an entertaining, enriching, and innovative performance - most of these events are free or at a modest charge.

Learn more at www.levineschool.org

Video filmed and edited by Jason Arrol

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• Beat Kaestli
• Levine School Jazz Quintet
• Swiss Ambassador
• Swiss Ambassador's Residence
• Levine School of Music
• Washington
• DC
• Jazz
• La Habanera
• Chris Battistone
• Noah Getz
• Pepe Gonzales
• Andrew Hare
• Robert Sykes

[radjon333]

I love the jazzy interpretation.