Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month every April

ASU Gala, featuring Wycliffe Gordon - October 7, 2010

Presented by: The Augusta State University Department of Music

Witness the talent at Augusta State University first hand. This is your only opportunity to see all of ASU's music ensembles performing on the same concert.

Performances by: ASU Jazz Ensemble, ASU Choirs, ASU Glee Club, ASU Orchestra, ASU Wind Ensemble, ASU Opera Ensemble. All procedes from this event benefit the ASU Music Scholarship Fund.

Wycliffe Gordon, trombone, enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, composer, arranger, educator, and conductor, receiving high praise and multiple awards and honors from audiences and critics alike. Gordon tours the world bringing hard-swinging, straight- ahead jazz to audiences ranging from heads of state to elementary school students. In addition to a thriving solo career, he tours regularly leading the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, headlining at legendary jazz venues throughout the world. Gordon is a former veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and has been a featured guest artist on Billy Taylor's "Jazz at the Kennedy Center.” Born in Waynesboro, Georgia, Gordon was first introduced to music by his late father, Lucius Gordon, a classical pianist and teacher. Wycliffe Gordon endorses Greg Black mouthpieces and Yamaha Trombones.



Location Information:
Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre
Contact Information:
Name: Maxwell Theatre Box Office
Phone: 706-667-4100
Email: maxwelltheatre@aug.edu