Each semester, music students have the opportunity to perform selections from their applied lessons. Join us for a variety of tunes – classical and jazz, solos and small combos, vocal and instrumental. Free and open to the public.

Each semester, music students have the opportunity to perform selections from their applied lessons. Join us for a variety of tunes – classical and jazz, solos and small combos, vocal and instrumental. Free and open to the public.

Join renowned drummer Dennis Mackrel for a master class with the University Jazz Ensemble, directed by Alex Stewart. Free and open to the public.

Dennis Mackrel is a noted jazz drummer and highly respected composer/arranger and conductor whose work has been recorded and performed by the Count Basie Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, the WDR Radio Big Band from Germany, the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw from Holland, the Danish Radio Big Band from Denmark, and the McCoy Tyner Big Band, whose Grammy winning CDs included Mackrel’s arrangements.

He has won numerous awards including Who’s Who in Music, A National Endow- ment for the Arts grant for composition, and Outstanding Alumni from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

He is also an experienced jazz educator who conducts master classes, seminars and workshops throughout Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States.

This concert wraps up the University Jazz Ensemble’s residency with drummer Dennis Mackrel (April 4-6). Directed by Alex Stewart. Free and open to the public.

Dennis Mackrel is a noted jazz drummer and highly respected composer/arranger and conductor whose work has been recorded and performed by the Count Basie Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, the WDR Radio Big Band from Germany, the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw from Holland, the Danish Radio Big Band from Denmark, and the McCoy Tyner Big Band, whose Grammy winning CDs included Mackrel’s arrangements.

He has won numerous awards including Who’s Who in Music, A National Endow- ment for the Arts grant for composition, and Outstanding Alumni from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

He is also an experienced jazz educator who conducts master classes, seminars and workshops throughout Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States.

Join us for an evening of diverse and captivating music featuring American Salute by Morton Gould, Sweet Dreams, Elizabeth Lee by Gabriel Musella, and Mars and Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst. This exciting program will also include the second movement of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, featuring the UVM Symphony Concerto Competition winner, Logan Prewitt, and the jazz classic 'Round Midnight, arranged by Patricia Julien.

Yutaka Kono, conductor. Free and open to the public.

This program is inspired by Byrd Baylor's book The Other Way to Listen and the work of many scholars and artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Maxine Greene, and Oliver Sachs. Their creative works and writings have encouraged us to pause, listen broadly, deeply, and otherwise using all of the senses and experiences available to us as human beings.

You are invited to join us as we explore the multiple ways of listening and hearing through works by Josquin Des Prez, Elaine Hagenburg, Pauline Oliveros, and Eric Whitacre.

Director, Andrea Maas
Collaborative Piano, Amy Shortt

Each semester, music students have the opportunity to perform selections from their applied lessons. Join us for a variety of tunes – classical and jazz, solos and small combos, vocal and instrumental. Free and open to the public.

Each semester, music students have the opportunity to perform selections from their applied lessons. Join us for a variety of tunes – classical and jazz, solos and small combos, vocal and instrumental. Free and open to the public.

With students of Amy Shortt

With students of Adam Hall