UMBC Jazz

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For undergraduate and graduate students

So, do you like jazz? There are currently six jazz groups at UMBC, the Jazz Ensemble, four small groups, and the Jazz Guitar Ensemble. The audition is the same for all groups. Non-traditional...

AUDITION for UMBC Jazz Groups

For undergraduate and graduate students

So, do you like jazz? There are currently seven jazz groups at UMBC: the Jazz Ensemble, four small groups, and the Jazz Guitar Ensemble. The audition is the same for all groups. Non-traditional...

Openings for UMBC Jazz Ensemble

Do you like jazz? Do you play trumpet or trombone?

We have immediate openings in the brass section of the award-winning UMBC Jazz Ensemble. We will be performing the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra's version of John Coltrane's masterpiece, A Love...

AUDITION for UMBC's Jazz Groups

For undergraduate and graduate students

So, do you like jazz? There are currently seven jazz groups at UMBC, the Jazz Ensemble, four small groups, and the Jazz Guitar Ensemble. The audition is the same for all groups. Non-traditional...

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About This Group

UMBC Jazz, a part of the UMBC Department of Music, is a dynamic program looking toward the future. Students have numerous performance opportunities as members of our jazz ensemble, four small groups, jazz guitar ensemble, and various student-led projects. Courses include improvisation, theory, arranging, and composition. This integrated curriculum is designed with the goal of producing unique and creative performer-composers. Also, we host our own jazz festival every spring. Recent guests include bassist Ben Allison, bassist Ben Street, pianist Larry Willis, tubist/saxophonist Howard Johnson, and saxophonist George Garzone. In addition to hosting our own festival, our students perform regularly off campus and at other area festivals. Upon graduation, our students leave with a rich portfolio of performances, analyses, compositions, and arrangements all professionally recorded with our state of the art recording facilities.

Our ensembles are open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Contact Matt Belzer, Director of Jazz Studies, for more information.

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