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Registration is now open for Jazz Girls Day at Idyllwild Arts Academy —taking place from 9am to 4pm on Sunday, March 2, 2025 — an inspiring traveling masterclass that was founded by Dr. Colleen Clark in 2021 and is generously supported through her position at the University of South Carolina. Featuring masterclasses, jam sessions and a concert, the daylong clinic is free and open to all female identifying improvising musicians, middle school to high school aged (10-18 years old).

Since Jazz is historically a male-dominated genre, Jazz Girls Day is an important way to help bridge gender disparity for women in jazz through encouraging girls to learn jazz while also building a supportive community. Clark’s initiative aims to inspire students across the country and — while it’s already landed in many states from Arizona to Idaho — this will be the first time it lands in California amidst her ongoing vision to help cohost a USC Jazz Girls Day event in all 50 states by 2030. The future for women in jazz is important and Clark’s program puts a spotlight on the disparity while repairing it.

There is no audition, and a healthy variety of experience levels are welcome! All participants can expect to learn and be challenged in a supportive environment. It is an open invitation to middle and high school girls for a day of masterclasses, connection, concert and jam session. Taking place at Idyllwild Arts Academy (52500 Temecula Rd #38, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA), registration is required via:  https://fmp.music.sc.edu/fmi/webd/JazzGirlsDay?homeurl=https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/community/community_events/jazzgirlsday.php

The Idyllwild Arts Jazz Combos will be performing at The Merc in Temecula, CA (42051 Main St, Temecula, CA 92590) at 7:30pm on Thursday, October 24.

Three student combos, working under the guidance and direction of Alex McLaughlin and Dr. Marshall Hawkins, will perform repertoire that reflects a traditional approach paired with an artistic reach toward the future infused with plenty of personality. Listeners can expect to hear tunes written or commonly performed by Ellington, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, and Esperanza Spalding.

Regular ticket prices are $20 and Student Tickets are $15. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit:

https://idyllwildarts.org/event/jazz_combos_the_merc/

St. Margaret’s Friends of Music will present the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge University, in concert Sunday, December 11, 7pm at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Palm Desert.

The program, entitled “O magnum mysterium,” surveys more than five centuries of beloved choral repertoire appropriate for the Advent and Christmas seasons including settings of the text O magnum mysterium (O great mystery) by Spanish composer Cristóbal Morales (16^th century) and more contemporary settings by Francis Poulenc and Morten Lauridsen. Also featured on the program will be carols from seventeenth-century France and Germany plus seasonal works by Herbert Howells, John Tavener, John Rutter, Will Todd and Lucy Walker.

Since the founding of a mixed voice choir in 1972, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the College chapel, the Choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting, and performing. Recent engagements include concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Britten Sinfonia, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfonia Nacional de Mexico, as well as recitals in Barcelona’s Palau de Musica, El Escorial Madrid, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, St John’s Smith Square London, and across the USA and Canada.

The Choir has produced an impressive discography of more than forty recordings. Their recordings under Graham Ross on the Harmonia Mundi label have been released to great critical acclaim, earning praise for ‘exceptional singing’ and ‘immaculate performances.’ The Choir’s latest album, Rolling River, featuring American choral works by Barber, Bernstein, Nico Muhly and others, was released on the Harmonia Mundi label in 2023.

St. Margaret’s is located at 47535 Hwy 74, Palm Desert. Tickets are $45 for general admission and $10 for students. You can purchase online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-choir-of-clare-college-cambridge-graham-ross-director-tickets-661415630957?aff=ebdsoporgprofile or at the door.