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Students perform and learn at National Jazz Festival

Fourteen RE jazz students attended Fifth Annual National Jazz Festival in Philadelphia Feb. 10 to experience a day of performances and educational clinics. Trumpet players Miguel Arango '24, and Martin Piedrahita '24 received judges' choice awards for excellence among the RE attendees. The student participants, members of the RE Combo and Blue Combo, performed under the direction of RE Director of Arts Shawn Costantino, and they are also taught at RE by Director of Instrumental Music Jon Hamm.  
The student attendees: Arango, Ari Bennett '24, Santi Sauceda '24, Isabel Chong '24, Sofia  Rakhimi '25, Griffin Nelson-Montet '25, Piedrahita, Varun Raju '24, James Malone '24, Carlos Horcasitas '25, Paloma Lopes '25, Eric Wilson '24, Pedro Jereissati '26, Noah Martin '25.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.