Bethel University Presents 2023 Festival Of Jazz Feb. 18
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MISHAWAKA – Tickets are on sale now for the first annual Festival of Jazz Closing Concert and Award Ceremony, which will be Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Everest-Rohrer Auditorium.
Throughout the entire day on Feb. 18, area high school jazz bands will gather to perform, learn and improv with some of the greatest professionals around, according to a news release from Bethel. The event will culminate with an evening concert, which is open to the public.
"The first annual Bethel Festival of Jazz is an event aimed at celebrating and cultivating the distinctly American form of music known as jazz among high school students in Michiana and beyond,” says Steve Allen, director of Bethel Jazz Ensemble and Truth in Jazz. “Students will listen to their peers perform and gain professional musical experience from our solid staff of performer/clinicians. Lovers of music of all kinds will enjoy the evening concert, where we will hear our clinicians and outstanding student soloists perform."
The concert will feature specially selected high school soloists (from the festival participants), Truth in Jazz (a professional big band comprised of music educators) and the Bethel University Jazz Ensemble, with guest clinicians Patrick Hession, trumpet; Jim Catalano, percussion; Jay Jehl, trombone; and Todd Williams, saxophone.
T-shirts will be for sale before and after the event.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. They may be purchased online at Tickets.BethelUniversity.edu or by calling the box office at 574-807-7080, Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m.
