Guest Artist For Missouri State Jazz Festival

Date	Event	Venue
February 20 - 21, 2026	Guest Artist For Missouri State Jazz Festival Jazz Festival 2026 Spend the day on the Missouri State University campus performing and learning with highly respected jazz educators and clinicians. Jazz Festival links Register Jazz Studies Faculty Featuring Brian Lynch Join us for a great day of jazz performance and jazz education! Featuring trumpet player, educator and composer Brian Lynch, who has performed with groups as diverse as the Phil Woods Quintet, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Eddie Palmieri, and many more. He is also on the jazz faculty at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and in high demand as a performer. Event Details Saturday, February 21, 2026* *Note – Friday, February 20 might also be added as a date if there is enough interest. Spend the day on the Missouri State University campus performing and learning with highly respected jazz educators and clinicians. The jazz festival for 2026 will have both competitive and non-competitive tracks and will also provide an educational opportunity to improve the performance level of your jazz groups for other competitive festivals. Registration is required and space is limited. Categories are available for your high school big bands and jazz combos. Each group will perform for a panel of jazz clinicians and receive an interactive clinic immediately following their performance. Sponsored by Ernie Williamson Music.	School of the Arts,Music Department Missouri State University,Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities 901 S. National Ave. Springfield, MO 65897
February 28, 20268:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Brian Lynch Quartet – Monthly Residency At Blu Brian Lynch – trumpet Mark Davis – piano Jeff Hamann – bass Kyle Swan – drums	Blu The Pfister Hotel 424 East Wisconsin Ave, 23rd Floor Milwaukee, WI (414) 298-3196
March 11 - 12, 2026	Guest Artist For Chabot College Jazz Festival	Chabot College 25555 Hesperian Blvd Hayward, CA 94545 Buy Tickets
March 20, 20269:30 PM	Featured With Bill Bonifas Band	Caroline's Jazz Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 28, 20268:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Brian Lynch Quartet – Monthly Residency At Blu	Blu The Pfister Hotel 424 East Wisconsin Ave, 23rd Floor Milwaukee, WI (414) 298-3196

Date

Event

Venue

February 20 - 21, 2026

Guest Artist For Missouri State Jazz Festival

Jazz Festival 2026

Spend the day on the Missouri State University campus performing and learning with highly respected jazz educators and clinicians.

Featuring Brian Lynch

Join us for a great day of jazz performance and jazz education!

Featuring trumpet player, educator and composer Brian Lynch, who has performed with groups as diverse as the Phil Woods Quintet, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Eddie Palmieri, and many more. He is also on the jazz faculty at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and in high demand as a performer.

Event Details

Saturday, February 21, 2026*

*Note – Friday, February 20 might also be added as a date if there is enough interest.

Spend the day on the Missouri State University campus performing and learning with highly respected jazz educators and clinicians. The jazz festival for 2026 will have both competitive and non-competitive tracks and will also provide an educational opportunity to improve the performance level of your jazz groups for other competitive festivals.

Registration is required and space is limited.
Categories are available for your high school big bands and jazz combos.
Each group will perform for a panel of jazz clinicians and receive an interactive clinic immediately following their performance.

Brian Lynch Quartet – Monthly Residency At Blu

Brian Lynch – trumpet
Mark Davis – piano
Jeff Hamann – bass
Kyle Swan – drums

Blu
The Pfister Hotel
424 East Wisconsin Ave, 23rd Floor
Milwaukee, WI
(414) 298-3196

March 11 - 12, 2026

Guest Artist For Chabot College Jazz Festival

Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd
Hayward, CA 94545
Buy Tickets

March 20, 20269:30 PM

Featured With Bill Bonifas Band

Caroline's Jazz Club
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

March 28, 20268:00 PM - 11:59 PM

Brian Lynch Quartet – Monthly Residency At Blu

Blu
The Pfister Hotel
424 East Wisconsin Ave, 23rd Floor
Milwaukee, WI
(414) 298-3196

Date	Event	Venue
February 20 - 21, 2026	Guest Artist For Missouri State Jazz Festival Jazz Festival 2026 Spend the day on the Missouri State University campus performing and learning with highly respected jazz educators and clinicians. Jazz Festival links Register Jazz Studies Faculty Featuring Brian Lynch Join us for a great day of jazz performance and jazz education! Featuring trumpet player, educator and composer Brian Lynch, who has performed with groups as diverse as the Phil Woods Quintet, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Eddie Palmieri, and many more. He is also on the jazz faculty at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and in high demand as a performer. Event Details Saturday, February 21, 2026* *Note – Friday, February 20 might also be added as a date if there is enough interest. Spend the day on the Missouri State University campus performing and learning with highly respected jazz educators and clinicians. The jazz festival for 2026 will have both competitive and non-competitive tracks and will also provide an educational opportunity to improve the performance level of your jazz groups for other competitive festivals. Registration is required and space is limited. Categories are available for your high school big bands and jazz combos. Each group will perform for a panel of jazz clinicians and receive an interactive clinic immediately following their performance. Sponsored by Ernie Williamson Music.	School of the Arts,Music Department Missouri State University,Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities 901 S. National Ave. Springfield, MO 65897
February 28, 20268:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Brian Lynch Quartet – Monthly Residency At Blu Brian Lynch – trumpet Mark Davis – piano Jeff Hamann – bass Kyle Swan – drums	Blu The Pfister Hotel 424 East Wisconsin Ave, 23rd Floor Milwaukee, WI (414) 298-3196
March 11 - 12, 2026	Guest Artist For Chabot College Jazz Festival	Chabot College 25555 Hesperian Blvd Hayward, CA 94545 Buy Tickets
March 20, 20269:30 PM	Featured With Bill Bonifas Band	Caroline's Jazz Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 28, 20268:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Brian Lynch Quartet – Monthly Residency At Blu	Blu The Pfister Hotel 424 East Wisconsin Ave, 23rd Floor Milwaukee, WI (414) 298-3196