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 [...]

The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra directed by Professor of Music and African American Studies Jay Hoggard ’76, MA ’91, and the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble, directed by Noah Baerman, present an exciting evening of classic and contemporary jazz repertoire as the start of the 22nd annual Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend.

$15 general public; $12 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students; $8 Wesleyan students, youth under 18 Led by multiple Grammy Award-nominated drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, and educator Bobby Sanabria, his ensemble Ascensión has been critically-acclaimed for its Pan-Latino approach to Latin jazz. Encompassing Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and traditions from Venezuela, Colombia, Sanabria's ancestral homeland of Puerto [...]