This events calendar includes Earl’s upcoming performances, compositional debuts, recordings and educational activities. On mobile devices this calendar is best viewed horizontally.
Event Information
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Fri09Feb2024
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! -
Tue05Mar2024Fri08Mar2024
Alberta International Band Festival
the Polaris Centre For The Performing Arts, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Earl will adjudicate jazz bands at the AIBF Calgary Festival, and provide post-performance educational workshops, offering feedback to the student musicians. The Alberta International Band Festivals is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a performance platform for junior high/middle school, high school, and community bands. Organizers are committed to providing participants with a valuable and stimulating educational experience in a non-competitive atmosphere.
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Sat16Mar2024
2024 Clark Terry UNH Jazz Festival - Adjudicator
7:30 AM - 5:30 PMUniversity 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. -
Wed27Mar2024
New London Big Band
6:30 - 9:00 PMThe Social Bar + Kitchen
208 Bank St., New London, CTLed by trombonist and composer Sean Nelson, the New London Big Band is a 17-piece jazz orchestra made up of the finest musicians in New England. The band plays a mix of classic jazz standards, upbeat dance tunes, and original music by band members, and regularly features instrumental and vocal soloists.
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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 will present two workshops at the CMEA conference:
Navigating Challenges in Jazz Band Direction: Insights from UConn Jazz Faculty
Friday, April 5th, 11:30AM – 12:30PM
Capitol Room 3Keys to Nurturing Jazz Piano Brilliance
Saturday, April 6th, 9:10 – 10:10AM
Capitol Room 1Stop by the UConn Music booth and say hello!
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Wed10Apr2024
College Showcase at Black Eyed Sally's
7 - 10 PMBlack-Eyed Sally's. 350 Asylum St., Hartford, CT, 860-278-7427.
At the annual College Showcase event, student groups will perform from four neighboring jazz programs – UConn, Hartt, WCSU and URI. Each group will perform a 1/2 hour set, followed by an open jam session where they come together in musical collaboration.
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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
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Sun21Apr2024
UConn Jazz Combos
12 noonvon 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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Thu25Apr2024
UConn Music "Spectrum Concert"
8:00 - 9:30 PMJorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, Storrs, CT
schedule:
6:00 – 7:30 pm: Reception, Jorgensen Lower Lobby
8:00 pm: the Spectrum Concert, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
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Sat18May2024
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Sun19May2024
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Fri14Jun2024
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Mon08Jul2024Fri12Jul2024
Jazz In July Summer Music Program
Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jazz in July is a multi-generational jazz improvisation program with an impressive 40-year history. It is a concentrated two-week program where both vocal and instrumental musicians study jazz improvisation with some of the nation’s best jazz educators and artists.
The 2-week in-person program will run July 8-19, 2024. Earl will teach during the first week: July 8-12.
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Fri19Jul2024
Jazz in July All-Stars Concert
6 - 9PMAmherst Town Common, Amherst, Massachusetts
The Jazz-in-July All-Stars Concert is a round-robin style concert featuring collaborations between the nationally and internationally known Jazz in July faculty members.
Although subject to change, the anticipated roster of performers includes:Vocals: Sheila Jordan, Dominique Eade, Catherine Jensen Hole
Brass: Jeff Holmes, Steve Davis
Saxophone: Bruce Diehl, Felipe Salles, Frank Newton
Piano: Earl MacDonald, Luis Perdomo, Christian Sands, Lee Tomboulian, Stephen Page
Bass: Fumi Tomita, Avery Sharpe, Genevieve Rose
Guitar: Bob Ferrier
Drums: Steve Johns, Winard Harper, Greg CaputoThis concert is presented in cooperation with the Amherst Business Improvement District as part of their summer concert series. -
Sat20Jul2024