Dr. Mi-Eun Kim, Visiting Professor of Piano, gives a solo recital. Program includes pieces from Beethoven's middle period.

Event is free and open to the public. Loyola University New Orleans follows all City of New Orleans guidelines for indoor music venues.

Personnel:
Jason Mingledorff
Joe Ashlar
Brian Seeger
Ed Wise
Doug Garrison

JASON MINGLEDORFF has become one of New Orleans’ most versatile and in-demand saxophonists since moving here in 1995. He’s toured extensively with internationally known bands such as St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Clint Black, The New Mastersounds, Galactic, and Papa Grows Funk (subject of the award-winning full-length documentary Do U Want It?). His critically acclaimed brass band, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, won a Grammy Award in 2020 for Best Regional Roots Album (Atmosphere) and was featured in the seminal animated series The Simpsons. Other artists that Jason has performed and/or recorded with include Dr. John (Grammy winning The City That Care Forgot), Maceo Parker, Harry Connick, Jr., Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, The Temptations, The O’Jays, and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. A D’addario Woodwinds Artist since 2017, Jason has appeared on over 100 recordings and has been teaching jazz and saxophone at Loyola University of New Orleans since 2006.

Loyola University New Orleans follows all City of New Orleans guidelines for indoor music venues.

Loyola welcomes Antonio J. García for a workshop on jazz pedagogy!

This event is free and open to the public. Masks required on campus.

Antonio García  is a Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he directs the Jazz Orchestra I; instructs Applied Jazz Trombone, Small Jazz Ensemble, Music Industry, and various jazz courses; founded a B.A. Music Business Emphasis (for which he initially served as Coordinator); and directs the Greater Richmond High School Jazz Band. An alumnus of the Eastman School of Music and of Loyola University of the South, he has received commissions for jazz, symphonic, chamber, film, dance, and solo works—instrumental and vocal—including grants from Meet The Composer, The Commission Project, The Thelonious Monk Institute, and regional arts councils. His music has aired internationally and has been performed by such artists as Sheila Jordan, Arturo Sandoval, Jim Pugh, Denis DiBlasio, James Moody, and Nick Brignola. Composition/arrangement honors include IAJE (jazz band), ASCAP (orchestral), and Billboard Magazine (pop songwriting). His works have been published by Kjos Music, Hal Leonard, Kendor Music, Doug Beach Music, ejazzlines, Walrus, UNC Jazz Press, Three-Two Music Publications, Potenza Music, and his own garciamusic.com, with five recorded on CDs by Rob Parton’s JazzTech Big Band (Sea Breeze and ROPA JAZZ). His scores for independent films have screened across the U.S. and in Italy, Macedonia, Uganda, Australia, Colombia, India, Germany, Brazil, Hong Kong, Mexico, Israel, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

Mr. García is a Research Faculty member at The University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa) and the Associate Jazz Editor of the International Trombone Association Journal. He has served as a Network Expert (for Improvisation Materials), a President’s Advisory Council member, and an Editorial Advisory Board member for the Jazz Education Network. His newest book, Jazz Improvisation: Practical Approaches to Grading (Meredith Music), explores avenues for creating structures that correspond to course objectives. His Cutting the Changes: Jazz Improvisation via Key Centers (Kjos Music) offers musicians of all ages the opportunity to improvise over standard tunes using just their major scales. He is Co-Editor and Contributing Author of Teaching Jazz: A Course of Study (published by NAfME), authored a chapter within Rehearsing The Jazz Band and The Jazzer’s Cookbook (published by Meredith Music), and contributed to Peter Erskine and Dave Black’s The Musician’s Lifeline (Alfred). Within the International Association for Jazz Education he served as Editor of the Jazz Education Journal, President of IAJE-IL, International Co-Chair for Curriculum and for Vocal/Instrumental Integration, and Chicago Host Coordinator for the 1997 Conference. He served on the Illinois Coalition for Music Education coordinating committee, worked with the Illinois and Chicago Public Schools to develop standards for multi-cultural music education, and received a curricular grant from the Council for Basic Education. He is the only individual to have directed all three genres of Illinois All-State jazz ensembles—combo, vocal jazz choir, and big band—and is the recipient of the Illinois Music Educators Association’s 2001 Distinguished Service Award.

Graduate vocalist Taylor White presents a recital titled "A Tradition of African American Music."  The recital features the world premiere of To Meditate in His Temple, composed by Dr. Maria Thompson Corley.

Event is free and open to the public.

All of the Loyola School of Music & Theatre Arts performances are conducted in compliance with the City of New Orleans' protocols for indoor music venues. 

The Loyola Trumpet Studio welcomes back alumnus Alex Mayon, the acting Principal Trumpet in the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. During his time pursuing a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Loyola, Mayon won the School of Music Concerto/Aria Competition two times and was recognized for having the outstanding honors thesis in the graduating class. He was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship to attend the Eastman School of Music, where he received his Master of Music Performance degree. Mayon had recently won the audition for 3rd/ Assistant Principal Trumpet in the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra when he was promoted to acting Principal Trumpet for the 2021-2022 season.

For more information contact Dr. Nick Volz nrvolz@loyno.edu.

Event is free and open to the public.

Loyola follows all City of New Orleans protocols regarding COVID-19 and indoor music venues.

Fr. James Carter has always been an avid supporter of the arts, particularly of Loyola’s College of Music and Media. During his tenure as university president, Carter was an outspoken proponent of arts education, and demonstrated time and time again his commitment to Loyola’s unique tradition of excellence in this field.

Quartet members include Amy Thiaville, Rachel Jordan, Bruce Owen, and Rachel Hsieh.

Event is free and open to the public. The Loyola School of Music & Theatre Arts hosts events in compliance with the City of New Orleans' guidance for indoor music venues regarding COVID-19.

Versipel New Music presents the Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas with on the oscillations of our time,  a new program that explores the hidden sounds of everyday life and their effect on our state of mind. From the immensity of the crashing of ocean waves to the claustrophobia of an MRI machine, our lives are shaped and shadowed by our own personal soundtracks. Featuring music by Jonathan Bailey Holland, Barbara White, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Emily Koh, Sofía Rocha, and Crystal Pascucci.

Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas is on a mission to revolutionize the modern concert experience. Since 2011, their innovative performances have been praised as “superb” by the Boston Globe and “disarming” by Cleveland Classical, with the San Francisco Chronicle lauding “the versatile imagination they both display and inspire in others.” Bass clarinetist Amy Advocat and marimbist Matt Sharrock relish the creative potential of working with living composers, having amassed a varied repertoire of over 80 commissioned works in addition to working with hundreds of student composers from all over the world. Since 2017, they have hosted their annual paid Composer Fellowship Program that is free and open to composers of all ages. They maintain an active touring schedule with recent performances at the Charlotte New Music Festival, Music on the Edge, Composers, Inc., Music at the Forefront, and People Inside Electronics, among others. Recent educational residencies include the University of Southern California, University of Pittsburgh, North Carolina NewMusic Initiative, and Divergent Studio at Longy School of Music. They have three albums, Sift, Wired, and Right Now, in a Second, all released on New Focus Recordings. Transient Canvas proudly endorses Henri Selmer Paris and Marimba One. For more information, visit www.transientcanvas.com.

Transient Canvas will also be available at 2:30 p.m. on the performance date for a free Q&A in Roussel Hall.

Senior recital featuring Antony Bianchini, bass.

Event is free and open to the public.

Loyola follows all City of New Orleans protocols for COVID-19 regarding indoor music venues.

Graduate recital featuring Margaret Branyon-Goodman, voice.

Event is free and open to the public.

Loyola follows all protocols of the City of New Orleans regarding COVID-19 and indoor music venues.