The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music proudly presents the UKZN Jazz Piano Showcase on Wednesday 23 May 2018 at 18:00.

In the wake of a hugely successful Piano Passions concert that featured prominent UKZN jazz piano alumni and their teacher, Prof Darius Brubeck, you are invited to a concert featuring young jazz piano students who are successors to this illustrious legacy. It is an opportunity to hear phenomenal talent, youthful energy and imagination that is fuelled by everything contemporary in a stage of relative infancy.

The UKZN jazz piano faculty is particularly excited by the current crop of students and is experiencing what feels like an avalanche of talent. The concert will feature a selection of students from 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd year and the program will comprise original compositions, jazz standards and arrangements and mashups of various kinds. The piano students are too numerous to feature in one concert, so a 2^nd concert has been arranged for the Jazzy Rainbow on Thursday, June 7^th.

We are also proud to launch our partnership with local music instrument retail chain, Musician’s Gearzone, who have kindly sponsored product awards to participating pianists. The sponsorship will extend to the rest of the student showcase concerts scheduled during the course of the year.

This concert will be a part of series of instrumental showcases that will ran over the course of the year to fundraise for the Ronnie Madonsela Scholarship. It will be followed by the bass showcase on Wednesday 30 May 2018.

Join us at The Centre for Jazz and Popular music (CJPM), Level 2, Shepstone Building at UKZN Howard College Campus on Wednesday 23 May 2018 at 18h00. Doors open at 17h30pm show starts at 18h00. R80 for general admission // R50 pensioners // R25 for students. Please contact Thuli on 031 2603385 or email Zamat1@ukzn.ac.za for more details