Trottier Middle School Big Band

P. Brent Trottier Middle School’s Big Band will perform at their annual fundraiser event, An
Evening of Jazz, on Thursday, June 11th at 7:00pm. The band will perform an entire
evening of jazz pieces that showcase their talents and hard work this year and they are
excited to welcome back special guest trumpeter and recording artist Summer
Camargo. The Trottier Big Band, under the long-time direction of Jamison Clark, has been a
Gold Medal Recipient from the Massachusetts Association of Jazz Educators from
2008-2019 and 2022-2026, and 10-time winners at the Clark Terry/UNH Jazz Festival.
This year the band was honored to be chosen as 90.5 WICN Worcester Public Radio’s
Featured Artist for June in their “Emerging Artist” series, which supports rising Jazz+ talent
from across the greater Worcester/Central Massachusetts region. A concert recording of
the band was made at Trottier by a WICN engineer, and that concert will be featured this
Friday, June 5th from noon to 1 pm, and again on Saturday, June 6th from 11 am to noon. On
Friday, WICN will host the band members and their parents for a listening party, and on
Saturday, Jamie Clark will join program host Howard Caplan on the air during The Saturday
Swing Session to talk about the band and share interview clips with the students. WICN has
been a long-time sponsor and supporter of An Evening of Jazz.

WICN Emerging Artist Series Welcomes The Trottier Middle School Big Band

An Evening of Jazz will feature the acclaimed jazz trumpeter, composer, and recording artist
Summer Camargo, who was also their special guest in 2024. Camargo released her first
album To Whom I Love in 2024, and since 2022 she has been a member of the Saturday
Night Live House Band. Camargo also tours internationally, performs regularly in New York
City with the Mingus Big Band and at jazz clubs like Dizzy’s at Lincoln Center and Birdland
and plays in the orchestra for the Broadway hit musical Just In Time. She was named one of
DownBeat Magazine’s “25 for the Future” in their July 2024 issue, NPR’s Jazz Night in
America program featured her in “Jazz Youngbloods, 2023” as one of five exciting artists
under 30, highlighting her for “infusing new energy into today’s jazz scene.” Camargo
completed her Masters Degree at The Juilliard School in Jazz Studies (trumpet) in 2024; as
an undergraduate at Juilliard she was a Jerome Green Fellowship recipient and completed
her Bachelor’s Degree in 2023. Camargo is also an alumna of the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival from 2017-2019, where
she earned awards including Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Award, the Ella Fitzgerald
Outstanding Soloist Award, and the Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest.
https://www.summercamargo.com/
Each year, the Jazz Night showcase concert collects donations for admission, and the Big
Band parents bake treats that will be available at intermission for a donation as well. All
proceeds this year will be donated by the band to Wayside Youth and Family Support
Services in Framingham, MA. Wayside offers a wide range of support services driven by the
central mission “to empower children, young adults and families to achieve greater
independence and emotional well-being.” https://www.waysideyouth.org/