Jazz @ UW-River Falls
UW-River Falls Jazz Festival
Friday, February 24, 2012
The University of Wisconsin-River Falls will host the 2012 UW-River Falls Jazz Festival, on Friday, February 24, 2012. The Jazz Festival features performances by outstanding regional high school and middle school jazz ensembles. The Jazz Festival is a non-competitive event, and provides excellent learning experiences for students of all levels with professional jazz clinicians and knowledgeable music educators.
The 2012 UW-River Falls Jazz Festival guest artist is trumpeter and music educator Leonard Foy. Leonard Foy is Professor of Trumpet/Jazz Studies at DePauw University School of Music where he teaches trumpet, jazz history, jazz combo, jazz improvisation, trumpet pedagogy, brass quintet, and brass techniques. Mr. Foy is a member of the internationally acclaimed Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and has performed extensively in jazz, classical, orchestral, and popular genres, including performances with Joe Williams, Oscar Peterson, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, James Moody, and Roland Hanna.
Leonard Foy maintains an active professional career in jazz and classical performance arts as a trumpeter and clinician. Mr. Foy's recorded trumpet performances include the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Wallarab-Buselli Jazz Orchestra, Columbus Jazz Orchestra, Arts Center Jazz Collective, Nashville Symphony and Pops Orchestras, Nashville Opera, Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, New Brass Quintet, and the Stones River Chamber Players. Leonard Foy is a Bach trumpet performing artist-clinician for the Conn-Selmer Company.
