BYU Synthesis under the direction of Benjamin Nichols
Featuring Chip McNeill and Vince DiMartino
7:30 PM | APR. 1, 2026 | CONCERT HALL | MUSIC BUILDING
Little Pixie THAD JONES
Cupcake BENNY GREEN arr Sam Handley
Pure Imagination
LESLIE BRICUSSE AND ANTHONY NEWLY arr Jacob Ward
Popcorn Popping GEORGIA W BELLO arr . Bryant Jordan
Bad Dog No Biscuits SEATBELTS arr . Luke Liechty
Beatrice SAM RIVERS arr . Marty Bodell
Autumn Leaves .
Georgia on My Mind
Stolen Moments
Hot House
Embraceable You
Yes or No
JACQUES PRÉVERT AND JOSEPH KOSMA arr Raleigh Dailey
HOAGY CARMICHAEL arr . Tommy Newsom
NELSON
DAMERON arr Chip McNeill
GERSHWIN AND IRA GERSHWIN arr Chip McNeill
SHORTER arr Victor Goines
Hello, Young Lovers . . . . RICHARD RODGERS AND OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II arr Kim Richmond
Biographies
Chip McNeill
In addition to his position with the University of Illinois School of Music, Professor McNeill is musical director and jazz tenor saxophonist for Grammy Award–winning recording artist Arturo Sandoval . He has toured with and recorded the compact discs (CDs) Americana and Hot House with Arturo Sandoval . In 1998, Hot House won a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz
Recording . To his credit, Professor McNeill won a Grammy for his performance on Hot House, and two of his charts were nominated for Grammys from the recording . Professor McNeill also has performed and toured with the legendary jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, with whom he has produced, written, and performed on several CDs, including Live in London, These Cats Can Swing, and Maynard Ferguson’s final CD, The One and Only . He has recorded performances with Nat Adderley, David Liebman, Duffy Jackson, Ira Sullivan, the Woody Herman Orchestra, Ted Shumate, and Larry Willis . Professor McNeill’s most recent CD is The Whirl, on Armored Records . He has performed with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr ., Joe Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, and Wynton Marsalis . Professor McNeill has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Monterey Jazz Festival in California, and Noto Jazz Festival in Japan . He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall in Sydney, Australia, and the London Palladium . He also has performed for jazz radio and television productions in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, India, and Indonesia . Before joining the University of Illinois School of Music, he was chair of jazz studies at Florida International University in Miami and Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg .
Vince DiMartino
Vincent DiMartino retired in 2012 as Matton Professor of Music Emeritus at Centre College . One of America’s leading trumpet performers and teachers, DiMartino originally joined the college in 1993 as Centre’s first distinguished artist-in-residence . He was named to the Matton Professorship in 1996 .
DiMartino was the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky for some twenty years . He has performed as a soloist with many symphony orchestras, including those in Cincinnati, Buffalo, Santa Fe, Orlando, and Rochester . He is prominently featured in many recordings of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra .
Throughout his teaching career, Professor DiMartino has been a member of the artist faculty of many international seminars and courses . These include the Empire Brass Quintet–Tanglewood summer program, the Spanish Brass Festival in Alzira, Spain, and the Kalavrita Brass Course in Greece, as well as seminars in England, Ukraine, Thailand, Germany, and Canada .
DiMartino has performed worldwide as a soloist and with artists such as Henry Mancini, Doc Severinsen, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck . Widely admired for classical and jazz playing, he has also in recent years begun to specialize in virtuoso cornet solos .
