(OCEAN GROVE, NJ) -- The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OGCMA) will present “Holiday Encores – Jazz and Pizazz” on Monday, September 6 at 7:00pm at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove. The show brings together three distinguished jazz musicians: Sean Gough (piano), Gene Perla (bass) and Doug Hirlinger (drums) who will do jazz improvisational pieces with Gordon Turk on the Great Auditorium Pipe Organ. The unusual collaboration will make this an evening you won’t want to miss!
Tickets are $14.00 and may be ordered at https://www.oceangrove.org/encores. The Great Auditorium is located at Pilgrim and Ocean Pathways in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. All facilities are handicapped accessible.
A native of the northeastern United States, Sean Gough has deep musical roots, attending concerts since age 2 and playing piano since age 8, drawing widely from American popular music and European classical music. From the age of 18, Sean has worked as a professional musician. In 2007, he had the fortune of meeting bass player Gene Perla, joining him in an apprenticeship model based on learning by doing. They have gone on playing in several groups appearing across the US, and in Europe. Sean freelances with other veteran instrumentalists and often accompanies singers, including operatic tenor Ronald Naldi (his grandfather), with whom he has played recitals of art songs and arias from the 17th-20th centuries. Sean also accompanies congregational singing at religious services and plays the pipe organ for weddings and other ceremonies. He teaches at Lafayette College.
Gene Perla is a bonafide bass legend with a mile-long resumé that includes stints with Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy Cobb and Miles Davis. He then attended Berklee School of Music and Boston Conservatory before New York’s jazz scene. Inspired by Charlie Haden’s performance on Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come Perla, at 24, switched to the bass as his main instrument. Soon his talents became in demand and he was sought after by performing with artists such as Willie Bobo, Carlos “Patato” Valdes, Nina Simone, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Elvin Jones, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra. As an educator Mr. Perla has taught at William Paterson University, New School University, Center for the Media Arts and is currently at Lehigh University.
Doug Hirlinger is a drummer, composer, and educator based in Philadelphia. He is an active performer on the drum set and has appeared throughout the United States and Europe with many musicians and ensembles of note including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Matt Mitchell, Ralph Bowen, Gene Perla, Joel Frahm, and Rudresh Mahanthappa. Doug is increasingly interested in intersections between digital technology, activism, improvisation, and sound/music. In 2018 Doug completed an artist residency at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts resulting in a 10-piece suite exploring gentrification, inequality, and musical legacy in Philadelphia with collaborators Ursula Rucker, M’Balia Singley, Tim Motzer, and John Swana. Doug has been a guest lecturer at universities such as The New School, Temple University, and Coe College in Iowa as well as a frequent teaching artist in Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg, and New Jersey public and private schools. Doug has been teaching music privately for over 20 years.
Gordon Turk (Organist-in-Residence) A critically acclaimed concert organist, Gordon Turk is celebrating his 46th Anniversary as Resident Organist and Founder and Artistic Music Director for the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Summer Stars classical music series. In these roles, he performs weekly recitals and at worship services on the massive Great Auditorium Pipe Organ and oversees a five-concert classical series in the Great Auditorium. Turk travels nationally and internationally for concert performances, and has played at Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center and other landmark concert halls in the US, Europe, Japan and Russia. He is particularly proud to have been selected to play at opening recitals for the inauguration of the new pipe organ at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center in May 2006. A graduate of the famed Curtis Institute of Music, he studied piano with Vladimir Sokoloff and organ with Alexander McCurdy, and studied with New York composer and organist McNeil Robinson at the Manhattan School of Music, earning the Master’s degree and the Doctor of Musical Arts, both with honors. He taught as Professor of Organ at West Chester University in PA, from 1992 – 1999.
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