UW–Madison’s Tandem Press is hosting spring performances of its annual Friday Jazz Series beginning Feb. 23, followed by performances on March 14 and May 15. The event features students from UW–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music’s jazz studies program in multiple concerts throughout the spring season.
Attendees will listen to jazz music, learn about art printmaking, and see the current exhibition hanging in in the Tandem Press Apex Gallery. All concerts are free and open to the public.
See below for performance dates and information:
Friday, Feb. 23, 5-7 p.m.
Jazz Standards Ensemble (directed by Peter Dominguez) and Contemporary Jazz Ensemble (directed by Chad McCullough)
Friday, March 15, 5-7 p.m.
Blue Note Ensemble (directed by Johannes Wallmann) and Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble (directed by Nick Moran)
Friday, May 3, 5-7 p.m.
Jazz Composers Group (directed by Les Thimmig)
Concerts will be held at Tandem Press at 1743 Commercial Avenue, Madison, as well as livestreamed online.
Tandem Press is a self-funded entity housed within the School of Education’s Art Department at UW–Madison. It is one of only three professional printmaking studios and press affiliated with a university in the United States. As a gallery, Tandem Press represents, promotes, and sells the artworks created in their studio both locally and nationally throughout the year. As a nonprofit educational institution, Tandem Press partners with other departments at UW–Madison to offer artist lectures, tours, printmaking workshops, and other special events to serve both the student and public community.