Events for February 2025

Benito Gonzalez - Piano Buster Williams - Bass Lenny White - Drums Pianist Benito Gonzalez “Two times Grammy nominee”is an internationally beloved artist who combines a long lineage of American jazz traditions with rhythms from around the world. He’s worked with dozens of the greats, and he always brings some of the best rhythm section [...]

Torff is a bassist, songwriter, composer and educator who continues to offer valuable lessons through jazz and history. A professor of music at Fairfield University, Torff & Friends deliver a powerful performance in folk style with jazz improvisation that will stay in your heart. Welcome! Our spirit raises the roof every time we present our [...]

A member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist. He has been proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The New Yorker. [...]

Grammy and Emmy award-winning bassist-bandleader Endea Owens and her band the Cookout bring their uplifting brand of jazz to the Bowker Auditorium stage. Tickets $40-$30; Five College Students and Youth 17 & Under $15

The Parkville Sessions reignites vibrant music culture in Hartford, CT, by transforming our historic bakery-turned-music studio into a dynamic, immersive space for world-class live performances. We invite audiences to step into a recording studio experience like no other—an intimate setting where you sit in the first two rows, fully immersed in the music. The proximity [...]

A member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist. He has been proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The New Yorker. [...]

7:00 PM & 9:00 PM - $37 Born in the Bronx, NY, Albert Rivera’s musical journey began early on and flourished at Laguardia High School for Performing Arts in New York City, Albert has won awards as both a sideman and a leader. He won the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award in 2009 , the [...]

Michaela has been a performing musician for nearly 15 years. She is an adept jazz guitarist, pop pianist, and singer songwriter. She performs a variety of music including modern classical, jazz, rock, pop, and more. Upon discovering my perfect pitch at a young age, music has been in my life ever since. Michaela regularly performs [...]

Moppa Elliot (bass), Charles Evans (saxophone), Sam Kulik (trombone), Danny Fox (piano), Christian Coleman (drums) Matthew “Moppa” Elliott was born and raised by two music-loving parents in Pennsylvania. In 1996 he attended the prestigious Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts and in 1997 enrolled in Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of music, completing degrees in biology [...]

Scott Robinson will play ten different saxophones in a concert that Berkshires Jazz has nicknamed “Ten by Sax”. The virtuoso reedman --and occasional trumpeter-- will be performing 10 numbers that were composed or made popular by 10 different jazz saxophonists. And, he will be doing this on 10 different-sized saxophones. Scott has created a one-time [...]

UMass jazz faculty perform in Bezanson Hall; includes Jeff Holmes, piano; Felipe Salles, sax; Tom Giampietro, drums; Mitch Chakour, vocal; Bob Ferrier, guitar & Haneef Nelson, trumpet

The Glass Farm Ensemble presents an evening of world premieres by Piano Instructor Yvonne Troxler, Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies Paula Matthusen, and Spanish composer Cesar Camarero, plus works by Frederic Rzeswki, Louis Andriessen, and Willy Burkhard. The ensemble features Troxler on piano, violinist Leah Asher, Jos Lammerse on bassoon, and percussionist [...]

The SPLICE Ensemble features Keith Kirchoff on piano, Adam Vidiksis on percussion, and Sam Wells on trumpet. Focused on cultivating a canon of electroacoustic chamber music, the group has previously premiered works by students of Matthusen in 2020, and has also performed Matthusen's works including site-specific recordings in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Featuring works by [...]

Wesleyan’s Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble presents new and arranged works for live electronics under the direction of Professor of Music Paula Matthusen.

Jazz at Lincoln Center brings the soul of New Orleans and the spirit of Mardi Gras to this amazing performance, celebrating the composers and inspired songs of the Crescent City, the historic epicenter of jazz. From Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong to Ellis Marsalis and James Black, New Orleans has long been an apex […]

Matthew Shipp (piano) With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has worked and recorded vigorously since the late '80s, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwined. He first became well known in the early '90s as the pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet, and soon began leading his own […]

Greg Burk (piano) “Burk’s improvising is lucid, unconventional...on target” -Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe Born in Lansing Michigan, pianist and composer Greg Burk grew up in a culturally diverse and musical household. His father, Dennis Burk, was an internationally active conductor and the son of Russian and Polish immigrants. Greg's mother, Giovanna Collonelli, moved from her […]

Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, a Brooklyn-based native of Switzerland and winner of Germany’s International Jazz Piano Prize in 2022, has earned renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the avant-jazz scene in New York City, her home for […]