Virginia Music Adventures, Inc. Virginia Music Adventures' Chapel Square Combo is an advanced, elite, performance oriented group which performs all styles of jazz. Band members are age 14 – 18 and demonstrate a facility for playing their individual instrument at an advanced level. Instruction focuses heavily on developing and refining improvisation techniques.
This is accomplished through regular instruction in basic harmony & theory, chord structures & voicings, and composition & arranging. Students have an opportunity to hear original compositions read and critiqued. The group collectively arranges and creates settings of pieces for performance. Combo members improvise on a daily basis, and enjoy playing side by side with accomplished professional musicians who sit in while performing in our area. The Chapel Square Combo performs both locally and on domestic and international tours.
Band leaders Jeff Cummins and Aaron Broadus have been offering their unique approach of performance based music instruction to local youth for over 25 years. In VMA they are joined by guest clinicians from the local professional musical community who contribute their expertise in master classes and sectional rehearsals regularly throughout the course of the program.
The Chapel Square Combo holds rehearsals on Fridays, 3:00-4:30pm during the school year and daily in the summer at the Little River United Church of Christ, 8410 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003.
Positions in the Chapel Square Combo are gained through a competitive audition process. Preference is given to returning band members. For additional information regarding auditions, click on the audition tab at the top of this page.
For additional information about VMA, including our staff members, pictures of some of our performance, and ways to support VMA, please browse our website using the navigation bar. If you have any questions, please send an email to: info@vamusicadventures.org.
