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UW-Eau Claire jazz program presents Holiday Spectacular Concert at Pablo Center
Alumnus Michael Andrew, a jazz vocal performer, stage and screen actor and music producer returns to perform with Blugold ensembles.
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Gatsby’s Gala returns to UW-Eau Claire Nov. 12
The snazziest party of the year, UW-Eau Claire’s Gatsby’s Gala returns for a night of music, dance and costumed fun on Saturday, Nov. 12, in Davies Center. Get your tickets now.
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Blugold alumnus and high-fidelity sound expert back in Eau Claire after 35 years
UW-Eau Claire graduate Allen Perkins spent an interesting California-based career designing and building award-winning sound systems for high-end music tech listeners, "audiophiles,” as he calls them. Now he’s back in Eau Claire and enjoying the return.
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Eau Claire Jazz Festival returns April 22-23
The cornerstone event of the UW-Eau Claire jazz studies program was strictly virtual for the last two years, but the Eau Claire Jazz Festival returns April 22-23 in full force to campus and Barstow Street.
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Gatsby's Gala returns to UW-Eau Claire on Nov. 13
After being twice shut down by COVID-19, a signature campus event returns. Join us for Gatsby's Gala at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13. Tickets are on sale now.
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Jazz Studies Alumnus Scott Pingel
What is beauty? It can come in many forms to many different people. For Principal Bassist of the San Francisco Symphony, Scott Pingel (’96), beauty came to him in the form of music and art. “Those two vehicles have helped me learn so much more about
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Virtual learning in action: Collaborative project results in pandemic-inspired music videos
Blugolds are combining their talents and the practical application of newly learned skills to create musical reflections of their university’s response in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Eau Claire Jazz Festival canceled due to spread of COVID-19
The Eau Claire Jazz Festival and the accompanying Jazz Crawl, formerly 52nd Street, will not take place in April of 2020 out of concern for the health of attendees and in recognition of governmental efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Sixth annual Gatsby’s Gala a festive party focused on local music, mission
The Chippewa Valley’s can’t-miss event of the season, Gatsby's Gala, comes roaring back Nov. 8 with a renewed focus on celebrating musicians with local roots and supporting excellence in jazz education. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in Davies Center.
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Bob Baca to receive WMEA Distinguished Service Award
Baca, UW-Eau Claire professor of music and director of jazz studies, will receive the 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the Wisconsin Music Educators Association Oct. 24.
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Margaret and Jack O'Farrell Director of Jazz Award established through donor support
Through a significant gift in support of the UW-Eau Claire jazz program, the Margaret and Jack O'Farrell Director of Jazz Award has been established and awarded to Bob Baca, professor of music and director of jazz.
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Music major plays trumpet for 'Miss Saigon' national tour
Plenty of college students talk about living the dream. UW-Eau Claire’s Connor Pietrzak is doing it. The senior music major is playing trumpet on the first national Broadway tour of "Miss Saigon."
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Jazz students find summer opportunities to perform, improve
Think life slows down in the summer for UW-Eau Claire’s talented — and nationally recognized — jazz musicians? Not so much. Blugold jazz students are in high demand during the summer, playing near and far as they gain experience and build connections.
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Attitude, talent help Argentinian drummer find success at UW-Eau Claire
With a feisty mom as a role model, Camila Mennitte Pereyra grew up determined to show the world that she could do anything that a man could do, including being an award-winning drummer.
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Jazz studies alumnus Tom Luer makes it big in L.A.
Los Angeles saxophonist and UW-Eau Claire alum Tom Luer is a prime example of a portfolio musician.
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Jazz I wins another prestigious Down Beat award
UW-Eau Claire’s Jazz Ensemble I continues to gain national recognition, winning yet another prestigious honor from Down Beat magazine. For the seventh time, the UW-Eau Claire ensemble has won top honors in the magazine’s "Best Undergraduate College Big Band" category.