Our goals for the UW Jazz Festival are simple: great music with outstanding and positive jazz education. These simple objectives promise to make this an enlightening and enjoyable experience for students, teachers, and audience members.
Registration: $300/ensemble
Registration Fee must be paid for each ensemble. Registration closes January 31. Refunds
are not available after this date.
We are very excited about this year's festival featuring an all-star lineup of amazing guest artists!
Middle and High School Big Bands, Combos, and Vocal Ensembles are all welcome!
Tell your students to bring $$$ so they can take home some UWYO JAZZ FESTIVAL merch!
Tickets for the evening concert may be purchased at the BCPA Box Office. All UW Jazz Festival participants (including directors) may purchase tickets at
the $5.00 participant price (plus box office fees).
We look forward to seeing and hearing you February 24. Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for how we may serve you.
Most sincerely,
Andy Wheelock
Director of Jazz Studies
UWYO Jazz Festival Director
Assistant Professor of Music
Percussion Area Coordinator
awheeloc@uwyo.edu
ALL student performances and warm-up will take place in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA). Visit our on-line schedule to find out when you perform.
See the campus map or Google maps for the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts location.
The Registration Check-In Table will be located in the lobby of the Buchanan Center for Performing Arts on the UW campus.
After check in, band guides will lead each group to their warm-up room 30 minutes
before their performance. Each performing group will have a 30-minute warm up. The
warm-up room will have chairs, stands, drum set, cymbals, piano, guitar amp, and bass
amp.
Performances will take place in the BCPA Concert Hall, the Main Stage theatre, and
the Recital Hall. Each school group is allotted 30-minutes on stage (including set
up and tear down). Once the performance is ended adjudicators will provide an on-stage
clinic with any time remaining in the 30-minute slot. For example, if a group performs
for 20 minutes, they will receive approximately a 10-minute clinic. In this way,
the director can choose how much clinic they receive based on how much music is performed.
A 30-minute performance will not receive an on-stage clinic. Please do not exceed
the 30’ limit for performance, set up, and tear down.
*All vocal groups will perform in the Recital Hall, which is acoustically designed to project the voice; therefore, microphones will not be provided for any vocal group.
All participants will receive recorded comments during the performance from the adjudicators. All comments and ratings are confidential.
After your performance, please pick up your adjudication packet at the Registration
Table.
The performance rooms will provide chairs, stands, drum set, cymbals, piano, guitar
amp, bass amp, vibraphone, and necessary sound reinforcement. The performance room
will not provide patch chords, auxiliary percussion, or electric keyboards. Drummers
may use their own cymbals, but no other equipment may be changed.
Directors ARE NOT required to provide scores for adjudicators.
Student drop off and pick up will be located in the North parking lot (near the Law
Building) of the BCPA. All bus parking is located at the Free Express Shuttle lot
on the East side of Willett Drive near the UW soccer stadium and North of the Bison
Run Village Apartments. There is no bus parking at the venues. See parking map.
All cases and other equipment must accompany each band to and from warmup rooms and
there will be a holding place outside of your performance venue where students can
pack their instruments immediately following your performance. All attendees are responsible
for their own equipment and the UW Jazz Festival and University of Wyoming are not
responsible for any lost or stolen items.
Registration closes on January 31.
If you must cancel in case of an emergency, please call 307-766-5242 as soon as possible.
Refunds are not available after January 31.
Registration Fee must be paid for each ensemble.
PLEASE NOTE: Registration closes on January 31. Refunds are not available after January 31.
TICKETS for the evening concert ft. the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra are $5/participant.
We are very excited about this year's festival featuring an all-star lineup of amazing guest artists! Middle and High School Big Bands, Combos, and Vocal Ensembles are all welcome!
Tell your students to bring $$$, so they can take home some UWYO JAZZ FESTIVAL merch!
