This events calendar includes Earl’s upcoming performances, compositional debuts, recordings and educational activities. On mobile devices this calendar is best viewed horizontally.
Upcoming Gigs
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Fri09Feb2024Sat10Feb2024
UConn High School Jazz Festival
9 AM - 6 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, CT
[directions and parking]
The annual UConn Jazz Festival is a non-competitive and educationally-rewarding experience that provides a forum for mutual support of each ensemble’s efforts while enhancing skills in the jazz idiom. Highlights of the festival include:
- a twenty-minute performance time for each ensemble,
- a twenty-minute personalized clinic by a UConn Jazz faculty member,
- beginning, intermediate, and advanced level improvisation master classes, and
- a mini-concert by the UConn Jazz Ensemble and UConn Jazz faculty.
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Wed14Feb2024Fri16Feb2024
Guest Artist - Marshall University Winter Jazz Festival
Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
As guest artist/Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts for the Marshall University Winter Jazz Festival, Earl will perform with the big band, give a small group concert, and a present two, hour-long clinics for the festival participants (high school/middle school bands/MU students).
You can read about the festival here: https://www.marshall.edu/music/jazz/events/jazzfest/ It’s the 2nd oldest non-competitive collegiate jazz festival in the country…55 years and counting! -
Sat16Mar2024
2024 Clark Terry UNH Jazz Festival - Adjudicator
University of New Hampshire, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Music, Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way Durham, NH 03824-2617
Earl will serve as an adjudicator at the 2024 Clark Terry UNH Jazz Festival on Saturday, March 16th, 2024. Guest artists include saxophonist Camille Thurman, and trumpeter Sean Jones. -
Thu04Apr2024Sat06Apr2024
Connecticut Music Educators In-Service Conference
The 77th Annual CMEA In-Service Conference will be held from April 4th to 6th, 2024 at the Connecticut Convention Center.
Earl and his UConn Music Department colleagues have submitted proposals to perform and present workshops at the CMEA conference. Stop by their booth and say hello!
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Sun07Apr2024
UConn Jazz Combos
3:00 - 4:30 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT
General admission is $10.
Students, faculty, children and military members with ID are admitted free.Steven Bulmer, director
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Sun14Apr2024
UConn Jazz Lab Band
3:00 - 4:30 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT
General admission is $10.
Students, faculty, children and military members with ID are admitted free.Earl MacDonald, director
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Sun21Apr2024
UConn Jazz Ensemble
6 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT
General admission is $10.
Students, faculty, children and military members with ID are admitted free.John Mastroianni, director
