Podcasts about ucf orlando jazz festival

Orlando is a city rich with culture. Culture that you should experience. Here's what's happening "This Week In Art."- This Sunday, celebrate Florida Cowboy Heritage Day at the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens.- Friday, Opera Orlando opens Pagliacci/Pulcinella, an emotionally charged show that ranges from high comedy to intense tragedy. It runs until the 26th and features Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.- Friday and Saturday, UCF Jazz presents the UCF Orlando Jazz Festival, featuring clinics, master classes, and performances by internationally acclaimed artists.- This is your last week to see Hamlet & Gertrude and Claudius at Orlando Shakes.There's a ton happening this week. Go out and experience something amazing!

The UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival and the UCF Opera Scholarship Festival both bring high-profile names in music to Central Florida. We chat with the UCF professors behind both events.

We speak with the Director of the Jazz Program at the UCF School of Music, Jeff Rupert, about the big names in jazz appearing at this years' UCF Orlando Jazz Festival.

UCF's Jazz Professors warm up for the third annual UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival. We talk with faculty member Marty Morell about the planned tribute to Bill Evans and Stan Getz - and his work on an album by the legendary duo.

UCF-TV will broadcast a special Night at the Jazz Festival Saturday, 6/13 from 7pm-midnight, with highlights from last March's 2nd Annual UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival. ArtBeat features a rebroadcast of stories about the festival. UCF-TV also produced a half-hour documentary on the first-ever All Star High School Jazztet, which you can watch online.

We talk to Tamas Kocsis, the concertmaster of the Orlando Philharmonic, who will be the soloist Saturday night in the Brahms Violin Concerto. Also, another quick look at the UCF Orlando Jazz Festival which runs Friday & Saturday night.

The final installment of our series looks at jazz legend Lou Donaldson and organist Akiko Tsuruga, who will perform Saturday night at the UCF Orlando Jazz Festival. Don't forget the clinics and talks by the jazz greats.

Our next installment on the UCF Orlando Jazz Festival looks at Friday's headliner, Kevin Mahogony. Also, The Orlando Chorale is in concert Saturday night at 1st United Methodist Church in downtown Orlando - the program features a premiere by Christopher Marshall, UCF's music department's Composer-in-Residence, and faculty member George Wereumchuk as soloist.

All this week we have previews of the 2nd Annual UCF Orlando Jazz Festival. Headliners include jazz vocalist Kevin Mahagony and jazz legend Lou Donaldson. This year you can purchase tickets online.