Kinser Jazz Festival

Kinser Jazz Festival February 8-10, 2021
Casper College
Wheeler Concert Hall
8:00AM-5:00PM student performances
Natrona County High School
7:00PM February 9 Headliner concert

The Casper College Kinser Jazz Festival is named for the late Dr. Thomas Kinser, who founded the festival and promoted jazz as a standard component of music study in Wyoming. In 1967, the festival hosted three ensembles. Today, the festival has grown to accommodate more than 50 vocal and instrumental ensembles, with regional junior high schools, middle schools, and high schools participating. It appropriately serves Casper College students, regional public schools, and other supporting organizations. The main goal of the Kinser Jazz Festival is to educate Wyoming music students. This is accomplished in a variety of settings. Renowned jazz adjudicators listen and evaluate each student ensemble. The clinicians provide written critiques, a rating, and a work session where they strive to improve the students' performances. Regularly scheduled seminars, workshops, and performances are offered to expose the students to even more quality jazz. Finally, an evening concert featuring some of the finest artists in the jazz industry culminates the festival activities. In past years, jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, the Count Basie Orchestra, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Ellis Marsalis, Clark Terry and others have performed. The Casper College jazz program has a strong tradition of excellence. The comprehensive program includes courses in jazz improvisation and jazz history, and performing groups such as the Casper College Jazz Ensemble, Casper College Jazz Combos, and the Casper College Contemporary Singers. The core of the curriculum is the jazz improvisation course, which has its roots in traditional music theory, while studying and exploring the styles and practices of modern jazz improvisation. The festival greatly augments the Casper College jazz program, and provides the students listening opportunities rarely found in the area.

Livestream link for Wednesday, February 16, 8 am - 5 pm!
02/16/2022

Livestream link for Wednesday, February 16, 8 am - 5 pm!

Live from the Wheeler Concert Hall, it's the 55th Kinser Jazz Festival. We will leave the stream open all day. Ensembles are scheduled from 8:00AM-5:00PM. A ...

Livestream link for Tuesday, February 15, 8 am - 5 pm!
02/15/2022

Livestream link for Tuesday, February 15, 8 am - 5 pm!

Live from the Wheeler Concert Hall, it's the 55th Kinser Jazz Festival. We will leave the stream open all day. Ensembles are scheduled from 8:00AM-5:00PM. A ...

Livestream link for Monday, February 14, 8 am - 5 pm!
02/14/2022

Livestream link for Monday, February 14, 8 am - 5 pm!

Live from the Wheeler Concert Hall, it's the 55th Kinser Jazz Festival. We will leave the stream open all day. Ensembles are scheduled from 8:00AM-5:00PM. A ...

We are very excited to be celebrating our 55th Annual Kinser Jazz Festival. We will again be streaming all student perfo...
02/07/2022

We are very excited to be celebrating our 55th Annual Kinser Jazz Festival. We will again be streaming all student performances on our Casper College Music Department YouTube Channel. Each day will have a different link so be sure to share it with your students’ families. As always, we welcome people watching in person but realize that not everyone can get to Casper during the week. Ensembles are very welcome to hang around as long as they are able and hear the hard work of other groups. Additionally, we will leave the videos up on the channel, if someone wants to watch later. We will not be streaming the headliner concert.

Here are the video links:
Monday, February 14, 2022 8:00AM-5:00PM
https://youtu.be/dSQdYmnoSRY

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 8:00AM-5:00PM
https://youtu.be/ooGVznHmaKw

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 8:00AM-5:00PM
https://youtu.be/bQz7wJapPio

A little about COVID: While it’s not mandated and will not be enforced, we would like to politely request all visitors to social distance from other parties and wear a mask as they are able. We will have a few available at the front desk if you, your students, or students’ parents forget. We have people coming from all over the country and we would like to keep this event as safe as possible. Additionally, there will be hand sanitizer available throughout the building. Thanks for understanding.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you and hearing some great music next week!

Live from the Wheeler Concert Hall, it's the 55th Kinser Jazz Festival. We will leave the stream open all day. Ensembles are scheduled from 8:00AM-5:00PM. A ...

04/29/2021

💥 NEW DATES FOR 2022 💥
February 14 - 16

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02/19/2021

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Hello Directors!It was great to see so many of you at the Kinser Jazz Festival. I think it was our smoothest year! Thank...
02/10/2021

Hello Directors!
It was great to see so many of you at the Kinser Jazz Festival. I think it was our smoothest year! Thanks for bringing your groups and thanks for having them so well prepared.

I am writing today to ask you to remind your students of our upcoming Music Activity Scholarship application deadline which is February 15. This scholarship is open to majors of any variety (and we have 140 different majors at Casper College). Additionally, most areas, including music, have some pretty substantial scholarships in addition to the Music Activity scholarship. To apply, have your students complete this form: https://form.jotform.com/kcoe/2021-2022-music-scholarship-app and submit a brief video. The video can be any prepared piece, All-State audition music, All-NW audition music, or something they are studying in your class or with a private teacher. We can also provide suggestions, if needed.

To be eligible for the scholarship, students will need to register for applied lessons (at least 1 credit) and two ensembles (wind ensemble/college band/jazz ensemble for the “band” students, collegiate chorale/chamber singers/CCC for the vocalists, and chamber orchestra/jazz ensemble/chamber music for strings, guitar, and piano) as well as maintain a 2.0GPA or better.

Students need not be music majors to receive the Activity Scholarship. If they played/sang in band/choir/orchestra in high school, we would love to hear from them. Even if they aren’t 100% on coming to CC, please encourage them to audition anyway.

We will still accept late applications but we will start awarding them after Feb. 15. When they are gone, they are gone.

Let me know if I can be of any assistance in helping them with their auditions for Casper College.
All the best,
Dr. Mietz

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02/04/2021

Man, oh, man, was the 2021 Kinser Jazz Festival awesome! THANK YOU to all of the directors and their students who performed. It was a fantastic festival that the Kinser Jazz Festival committee was grateful to organize. It was the first time most of the participating ensembles had had to perform live in front of an audience in the last 12 months.
Thank you for tuning in to our daily livestreams or attending the festival in person to support Wyoming's middle, junior, and high school jazz musicians and vocalists!

Please feel to share this link with your students/parents and friends! We’re up, we’re streaming on YouTube and Instagra...
02/03/2021

Please feel to share this link with your students/parents and friends! We’re up, we’re streaming on YouTube and Instagram!

https://youtu.be/mua80wUMXI8

Thanks for all your support!

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