Lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “showcasing music’s future,” the Reno Jazz Festival at the University of Nevada, Reno has been bringing jazz stars and emerging young artists to Reno for more than five decades. Celebrating 53 years of jazz, 1962-2015, the Reno Jazz Festival is hosting three days of concerts, competitions and events on the UNR campus, April 23-25.
Donny McCaslin kicks off the festival Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Nightingale Concert Hall, performing with UNR’s faculty jazz ensemble, The Collective. Saxophonist, composer and Grammy nominee for “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo,” McCaslin has been called a “powerful voice in modern creative music” by the Huffington Post.
On Friday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Lawlor Events Center, the SFJAZZ Collective performs. Launched in 2004 by the San Francisco Jazz Organization, the SFJAZZ Collective has become one of the most exciting groups on the jazz scene.
The Friday evening concert opens with vocal innovators, Vertical Voices. The quartet — Julia Dollison, Kerry Marsh, Jennifer Barnes and Greg Jasperse — records and performs wordless vocals, new compositions, improvisation and more.
The finest jazz educators and musicians on the planet travel to UNR each spring to perform and teach at the Reno Jazz Festival. In addition to evening concerts by world-renowned guest artists, the Reno Jazz Festival also offers daytime competitions, workshops and clinics by scores of professional jazz artists and adjudicators for more than 9,000 young jazz musicians from school groups throughout the West.
The three-day festival culminates in a showcase concert and awards ceremony Saturday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. in Lawlor Events Center, to honor the best and brightest young standouts.
Individual tickets for Donny McCaslin with The Collective, April 23: General $22/Senior $17/Student $12. The performance is also included in the festival’s Jazz Fan Pass (preferred seating), which provides entry to all festival concerts and events April 23-25: General $60/Senior $50.
Individual tickets for SFJAZZ Collective and Vertical Voices, April 24: General $28/Senior $24/Student $18/ UNR Student $5. The performance is also included in the festival’s Jazz Fan Pass (preferred seating), which provides entry to all festival concerts and events April 23-25: General $60/Senior $50.
Individual tickets for the Reno Jazz Festival Showcase and Awards Ceremony, April 25: General $18/Senior $15/Student $11. The Reno Jazz Festival Showcase and Awards Ceremony is also included in the festival’s Jazz Fan Pass (preferred seating), which provides entry to all festival concerts and events April 23-25: General $60/Senior $50.
To purchase the Jazz Fan Pass, call Extended Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-4046 or 1-800-233-8928, email [email protected] or visit www.unr.edu/rjf .
To purchase individual tickets in advance (with a convenience fee), visit the Reno Jazz Festival website at www.unr.edu/rjf or call 1-800-325-7378. Tickets may also be purchased in person (without a convenience fee) on the University of Nevada, Reno campus at the Lawlor Events Center box office, open weekdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m. If the concert is not sold out, tickets may also be purchased at the door the evening of each performance.
For more information about the Reno Jazz Festival, call (775) 784-4046 or visit www.unr.edu/rjf .
