UNR's Free Ensemble is an ensemble where all music is made spontaneously. Nothing is planned out ahead of time. We will be performing a selection of pieces ranging from audience suggestions, to performing to videos without audio, to still photos.

UNR Percussion Ensemble and World Percussion Ensemble Free parking in the Whalen Garage

Jazz Lab II performance featuring our large jazz ensemble. Free parking in the Whalen Garage

The evening will feature choral and wind ensemble works which celebrate the University of Nevada, Reno, culminating in the premiere of a new work in its honor: And the Cities Rise Like Dreams by Steve Danyew. Rochester, New York based Danyew is an internationally recognized composer whose music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful… undeniably […]

Sierra Nevada Ballet presents a program of new choreography  by 8 different choreographers at the Brewery Arts Center (April 20) and the Reno Little Theater (May 3-5), SNB partners with Steinway Piano Gallery to produce an exciting eclectic program that has become a signature SNB annual tradition offering audiences a chance to sample some local […]

Spring Choral Area Concert featuring the University of Nevada, Reno School of Music Concert Choir, Chamber Chorale, and guest choirs from McQueen High School. Free parking at the Whalen Parking Garage

Apex Concerts presents its Grand Season Finale with “Spark of Genius,” a program with an all-star cast featuring violinists Stella Chen and Sean Lee, violists Matthew Lipman and Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, as well as Apex co-Directors Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park. Works explored are all centered on the idea of what exactly is the […]

Acclaimed trumpeter Terell Stafford takes the stage alongside the University's faculty jazz ensemble, the Manzanita Quintet, as they kick-off the 2024 Reno Jazz Festival. Based in New York, Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as […]

Feeling inspired after watching the opening headliner? During this free and open to the public event, Festival participants have the chance to collaborate and improvise alongside peers at the student-only Thursday night jam.

The 2024 Reno Jazz Festival presents the groundbreaking ensemble, GEORGE. GEORGE features four individual “earthworkers,” as the derivation of the moniker implies, who excavate and create intense and intriguing music, the sound of which defies categories and labels. The visionary behind the quartet, John Hollenbeck, is an award-winning, genrecrossing composer-percussionist, renowned in the jazz and […]

This free and open to the public Pro Jam Session kicks-off-with an all-star house band. Throughout the evening other pros will join in and take turns putting on an improvisational show sure to dazzle into the early hours of the morning.