Local guitarist Luke Brouillette will perform with the Northwestern State University Jazz Orchestra on Monday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall.
Admission is free and open to the public. Associate Professor of Music Galindo Rodriguez will conduct the orchestra.
Brouillette joined the faculty in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at Northwestern in 1994 as an adjunct instructor of guitar. He holds a Diploma of Professional Music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied guitar with Steve Carter, Jim Kelly, Charles Chapman and Berklee’s former guitar department
Brouillette worked as a professional musician in the Boston area in popular music performing live and in recording studios as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and bass guitarist in the capacities of band leader and sideman. Later, in 1993 he focused on classical guitar, studying with Robert Ward, a prominent guitarist and instructor in Massachusetts, and began working as a professional guitar instructor.
As a resident of Natchitoches and guitar instructor for NSU, he has worked as a professional performer playing popular and jazz music as a leader and as a sideman, as well as concerts and recitals with NSU’s jazz ensembles, symphony orchestra and theatre department.
The program is “Fascinating Rhythm” by Ira and George Gershwin and arranged by Sammy Nestico and featuring Jarrett Thomisee on tenor saxophone, “Beyond The Sea” by Jack Lawrence and Charles Trenet
Brouillette will be featured on his composition of “Mr. Small” arranged by Alex Guillory, “Got a Match” by Chick Correa arranged by Mike Bogle and also featuring Hayden Hirons on alto sax and
