Heat Up Your Valentine's Celebrations with Jazz

 

 

 

UK Jazz Ensemble plays "My Funny Valentine," written by Rogers and Hart, arranged by Dave Barduhn. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 11, 2016) — The  University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble and Lab Band invite couples and jazz lovers alike to come in out of the cold for "A Jazzy Valentine Concert" 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday), Feb. 11, at the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Conducted by Miles Osland, director of UK Jazz Studies, the UK Jazz Ensemble is composed of undergraduate and graduate students. The ensemble has received invitations to perform at the Midwest Clinic International Band, Orchestra and Music Conference multiple times and at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference. In 2011, the UK Jazz Ensemble, along with the Osland/Dailey Jazztet, toured France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, performing at two of the world’s most prestigious jazz festivals. In 2014, the ensemble completed at two-week tour of China.

Under the direction of Raleigh Dailey, associate professor of jazz studies, the UK Lab Band has performed regionally as well as at jazz festivals in Elmhurst, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky.

UK's Jazz Ensemble and Lab Band are housed in the UK School of Music at UK College of Fine Arts. The school has garnered a national reputation for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, composition, and theory and music history.

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu