Music Resources

The Rutgers Jazz Lab Band, directed by Dr. Anthony Branker, will feature “Mosaic: The Music of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers” celebrating compositions of former Jazz Messengers Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Horace Silver, Benny Golson, Donald Brown, Steve Davis, and others.

Featuring Distinguished Alumnus Orrin Evans, Downbeat Poll Winner, and the newest member of the Mason Gross Jazz Faculty. The Rutgers University Jazz Ensemble, directed by Conrad Herwig, will honor the legacy of Professor William Fielder in their annual Prof Fielder Memorial Concert. The premier twenty-two-piece student jazz orchestra opens each season by paying tribute to … Read More

The Brass Ensemble, under the direction of John Sheppard, will present moving works, arrangements, and transcriptions that highlight each brass instrument and showcase the rich harmonies of the brass family.

The RSO will perform Valerie Coleman’s Seven O’clock Shout, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered virtually in 2020 during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The program will also feature William Walton’s Viola Concerto with soloist Oh Hyun Kwon, winner of the 2020 RSO Concerto Competition, and Polish … Read More