The Concordia Vocal Jazz Festival is an annual event that features Concordia's three vocal jazz ensembles, engaging and effective clinicians, and vocal jazz ensembles from across the region. Past guest artists include säje, New York Voices, Jeremy Fox, Rosana Eckert, Justin Binek, Ryan Howe, Tobi Crawford, and Jerry Rubino.
The 2026 Vocal Jazz Festival will be 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31. Each participating ensemble will have an on-stage performance/clinic with members of New York Voices. The evening before, on Jan. 30, New York Voices will perform a concert on campus through Concordia's Cultural Events Series. Ensembles participating in the Vocal Jazz Festival will have an opportunity to add tickets for this concert to their registration.
For more information, please email Vocal Jazz staff advisor Wyatt Steinke.
Registration will be available in Fall 2025.
New York Voices continues to tour internationally and has performed in some of the world’s most preeminent venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Kennedy Center, and has been involved in two Grammy Award-winning projects with Paquito D’Rivera and the Count Basie Orchestra. The ensemble will retire at the end of 2026.