Wednesday, April 30 12PM-3:30PM on The Lawn at UVA

The University of Virginia Department of Music presents the UVA Jazz Small Groups for an afternoon of Jazz on Wednesday, April 30th from noon to 3pm. The event will take place on the lower lawn (Homer Flat) This event is free and open to the public.

Directed by renowned UVA music faculty members Pete Spaar, Calvin Brown, and Mike Rosensky, the Jazz Small Groups range in size from quartets to octets and vary in skill-level from beginner-intermediate to advanced. Besides a formal concert at the end of each semester, the groups do several outreach performances in the Charlottesville community and give a final end-of-year celebration concert. Repertoire is chosen from a diverse range of jazz styles by such greats as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Cannonball Adderley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and George Gershwin among many others, as well as original compositions by both faculty and students.

All events are subject to change.

For more information about this event, please visit https://music.virginia.edu/jazz-lawn-2025