CCU Jazz Festival

CCU Jazz Festival


The third annual CCU Jazz Festival is a two-day event featuring performances by the CCU Jazz Ensemble, CCU Jazz Combo, and CCU faculty ensembles with guest composer and pianist Ron Miller.

The CCU Jazz Ensemble is the flagship group of the commercial music and jazz program, featuring traditional big band instrumentation and vocals. The award-winning CCU Jazz Combo performs throughout the area, has recorded albums with national distribution and performed at the 2016 Montreaux, Vienne and Umbria Jazz Festivals in Europe.

Miller is professor emeritus of jazz composition at University of Miami Frost School of Music and a renowned composer and educator. His former students include Pat Metheny; Bruce Hornsby; Bobby Watson; Gil Goldstein; Steve Bailey, CCU artist in residence in the Department of Music; and Matt White, CCU associate professor of music. Each ensemble performs Miller’s original compositions and arrangements.

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