Matt Gaffney
Places I Call Home: Oakland, Manhattan Beach, CA
Instrument: Jazz Saxophone/EWI
Along Came Betty (Benny Golson)
Man of Many Masks (Matt Gafney)
Welcome to the online showcase for student musicians at the CSU East Bay Music Department! Below are recordings from student recitals in classical instrumental, vocal, and jazz performance. Music majors take one-on-one lessons with our outstanding faculty and also perform in ensembles of all shapes and sizes. Performers can often be heard as soloists in ensemble performances and student recitals. For voice students, recital repertoire includes classical music as well as any other areas of vocal music that interest students including musical theater, jazz, spirituals, and more. Students studying Jazz regularly perform with some of the world's top jazz artists at regular festivals on campus.
Places I Call Home: Oakland, Manhattan Beach, CA
Instrument: Jazz Saxophone/EWI
Along Came Betty (Benny Golson)
Man of Many Masks (Matt Gafney)
Places I Call Home: Oakland, CA
Instrument: Voice
Non so più cosa son (from Le nozze de Figaro) (W. A. Mozart)
Tenderly (Walter Gross)
Places I Call Home: San Lorenzo, CA
Instrument: Percussion
Wind in the Bamboo Grove (Keiko Abe)
Sonata for Four Timpani (Daniel Kessner)
Places I Call Home: Hayward, CA; New Haven, CT
Instrument: Classical Guitar
Aquarelle (Sergio Assad)
Places I Call Home: Hayward, CA; New Haven, CT
Instrument: Voice
Excerpts from Messiah (George Frederic Handel)
Places I Call Home: Hayward, CA
Instrument: Piano
Scherzo in C Minor, Op. 14 No. 2 (Clara Schumann)
Places I Call Home: Stockton, San Francisco/Oakland, CA; Seattle/Oak Harbor, WA
Instrument: Bass Trombone
Concerto for Bass Trombone (Derek Bourgeois)
Places I Call Home: Livermore, CA; Los Angeles, CA
Instrument: Flute
Ballade for Flute and Piano (Frank Martin)
Places I Call Home: Brentwood, CA; Long Beach, CA
Instrument: Jazz Guitar
Serenity (Joe Henderson)
Places I Call Home: Hayward, CA
Instrument: Alto Saxophone
Concertino de Camera (Jacques Ibert)
Places I Call Home: San Francisco Bay Area; Rogue Valley, Southern Oregon
Instrument: Horn
Horn Concerto No. 1 - III. Allegro (Richard Strauss)
Places I Call Home: Danville, CA; China
Instrument: Clarinet
Concert Fantasia on Motives from Verdi’s “Rigoletto” (Luigi Bassi)
Places I Call Home: Hayward, CA; Jakarta, Indonesia
Instrument: Jazz Piano
Armando's Rhumba (Chick Corea)
Places I Call Home: Hayward, CA
Instrument: Bass Flute
Syrinx (Claude Debussy)
Places I Call Home: Hayward, CA
Instrument: Trumpet
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano - I (Kent Kennan)