Keenan Asbridge Sextet
November 9, 2023 @ 7:00PM — 9:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center: 605 Main Street Middletown, CT 06457 Get Directions
Keenan is a trumpet and piano player, composer and educator from Hartford, Connecticut. He received his Undergraduate Degree from Western Connecticut State University in Jazz Trumpet Performance in 2014, and Spring of 2023 received his Masters Degree in Jazz Composition from Umass Amherst. Aside from leading his Sextet, Keenan can be regularly found playing with local funk/soul/rock group from Hartford called Nikita, where he plays both trumpet and keys.
Keenan can be found performing all over New England and New York in a variety of genres. The past two years, Keenan has been studying Jazz Composition at Umass Amherst. He composed for and performed with small groups, big band, studio orchestra in his time there. Additionally, Keenan co-directed and taught the Umass Jazz Lab Big Band, which he also wrote for, rehearsed, and performed with.
When he isn’t playing, Keenan is a teacher at several schools around Connecticut. He started his teaching career at two schools in Waterbury: Bravo! Waterbury, and Waterbury Arts Magnet School. He taught brass lessons at both schools; and at Bravo taught group bucket band lessons, and accompanied the choir. Since his time in Waterbury, Keenan has been teaching brass, piano and bucket band classes at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, and at various other schools around Hartford, and a semester of trumpet lessons at Manchester Community College. Keenan also recently had the opportunity to conduct the 2023 Laurel Music Camp Jazz Band; he has also been a long time staff member and former camper of the music camp.
Keenan will be joined on this night by the following musicians:
Dakota Austin: Alto and Tenor Saxophones
Anthony Carabello: Guitar
Andrew Wilcox: Piano and Vibraphone
Eneji Alungbe: Bass
Molly Plaisted: Drums
Keenan Asbridge: Trumpet
Keenan can be found performing all over New England and New York in a variety of genres. The past two years, Keenan has been studying Jazz Composition at Umass Amherst. He composed for and performed with small groups, big band, studio orchestra in his time there. Additionally, Keenan co-directed and taught the Umass Jazz Lab Big Band, which he also wrote for, rehearsed, and performed with.
When he isn’t playing, Keenan is a teacher at several schools around Connecticut. He started his teaching career at two schools in Waterbury: Bravo! Waterbury, and Waterbury Arts Magnet School. He taught brass lessons at both schools; and at Bravo taught group bucket band lessons, and accompanied the choir. Since his time in Waterbury, Keenan has been teaching brass, piano and bucket band classes at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, and at various other schools around Hartford, and a semester of trumpet lessons at Manchester Community College. Keenan also recently had the opportunity to conduct the 2023 Laurel Music Camp Jazz Band; he has also been a long time staff member and former camper of the music camp.
Keenan will be joined on this night by the following musicians:
Dakota Austin: Alto and Tenor Saxophones
Anthony Carabello: Guitar
Andrew Wilcox: Piano and Vibraphone
Eneji Alungbe: Bass
Molly Plaisted: Drums
Keenan Asbridge: Trumpet