UConn Jazz Festival 2025

February 7, 2025

9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | von der Mehden Recital Hall

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 in von der Mehden Recital Hall, a twenty-minute personalized clinic by a UConn Jazz faculty member, instrument-specific master classes, and a mini-concert by the UConn Jazz Ensemble and UConn Jazz faculty.

The jazz festival is free and open to the public.

Participating Ensembles

Captain Nathan Hale Middle School Jazz Band, Directed by Emily Kennedy

Sedgwick Middle School Jazz Band, Directed by Patrick Lennon

Coventry High School Jazz Band, Directed by Hannah Cole

Hopkins School Jazz Band, Directed by Erik Elligers

Canton High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Rachel Antonucci and Dan Ravita

Bristol Central High School Jazz Band, Directed by John Abucewicz

Hall High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by  Phil Giampietro

Newington Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Stephen Brookes

Old Saybrook High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Jeremy Taylor

King Philip Middle School Jazz Band, Directed by Nathan Edwards

Canton Middle School Jazz Band, Directed by Lisa LaDone

Conard High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Michael Wyatt

Maloney High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Brian Cyr

Manchester High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Meg Clough

Farmington High School 7 O'Clock Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Jeffrey Ventres

Southington High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Brett Berardi

East Catholic High School Jazz East Big Band, Directed by David Brudz

Weston High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Geoff Brookes

Naugatuck High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Manny Arboleda

King School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Garrett Mendez

Hamden High School Jazz Orchestra, Directed by Carmella Rossomade-Heise

Staples High School Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Kevin Mazzarella