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UW Jazz Ensembles Present Festival of Winds Concert Feb. 23

band members performing
The University of Wyoming Department of Music’s jazz ensembles will present a combined concert Friday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. (UW Photo)

The University of Wyoming Department of Music’s jazz ensembles will present a combined concert Friday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall.

Tickets cost $10 for the public; $7 for faculty, staff and senior citizens; and $6 for students. Tickets are available at the Wyoming Union information desk and the Performing Arts box office, by calling (307) 766-6666 or going online at www.uwyo.edu/finearts.

The Wyoming Jazz Ensemble, directed by UW Jazz Studies Director Ben Markley, and the UW Jazz Ensemble II, directed by Assistant Lecturer Ed Breazeale, will perform together for UW’s Festival of Winds. The concert will feature selections by Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones and Joel Frahm.

An annual event, UW’s Festival of Winds provides select high school students from a tri-state area with the opportunity to attend concerts by UW ensembles; participate in classes led by the UW wind and percussion studies faculty; interact with UW music majors; and perform in an honor band concert.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email kirisk@uwyo.edu.

 

 

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Institutional Communications
Bureau of Mines Building, Room 137
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2929
Email: cbaldwin@uwyo.edu


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