Below are some of the performance dates coming up in the 2024-2025 academic year! We hope to see you there!!
Stage Band & Jazz Combo – Thursday 11/21 – Campus Center
Jazz Ensemble, Stage Band, & Jazz Combo – Friday 12/6 – Alden Hall
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Fall Concert
Come support the Jazz Ensemble as they perform in the 2024 Fall Concert, presented by the Wind Band Association and WPI Jazz Groups. The concert will be on Saturday, November 9th at 3PM in Alden Memorial Hall. Hope to see you there!
2024-2025 Auditions
Auditions will take place in Alden Memorial Hall on 8/20, 8/21, and 8/22 from 11am to 4pm. Warm-ups are in the Perrault Music Room in the basement of Alden, and the auditions will happen upstairs in Room 210 Jazz Office. Please sign up using this link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JI1lsfsGXoP1mzLE5n4gvysb0sS9qP9QaYeDSCwARsM/edit?usp=sharing
Below are the audition requirements for the jazz ensembles:
- play a prepared piece of your choosing
- 2 major scales of your choice, Bb blues scale
- improvise over blues progression or a tune of your choosing
- basic sight reading
Below are the requirements for the brass ensemble auditions:
- play a prepared piece of your choosing
- 2 major scales of your choice, chromatic scale
- basic sight reading
CONCERT ALERT: Spring Swing
Join WPI Jazz Groups on Thursday April 18th at 7PM for our final concert of the year!! Featuring performances by the Jazz Ensemble, Stage Band, and Jazz Combo. Free admission to Worcester Area Mission Society (6 Institute Rd), we hope to see you there!!🎶🎷
UPCOMING CONCERT: The Music Of Duke Ellington
Join us for our concert this Sunday 2/25 at 3PM in Alden Hall!! This concert celebrates music from Duke Ellington and features Jazz Combo, Stage Band, and Jazz Ensemble as well as guest artists Kurt Bacher and Bigon Watson.
Free admission, no tickets required…we hope to see you there!!