Drawing Room Chamber Concert Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 7:30 pm with the UD Faculty Jazz Trio - Jim Leslie, drums; Chris Berg, upright bass, Phil Burkhead, piano The University of Dayton Faculty Jazz Trio includes Jim Leslie on drums, Chris Berg on upright bass and Phil Burkhead on piano. All three are educators at the University and all are active professional musicians, promoting and keeping jazz alive in our area. Jim Leslie performs with the legendary Blue Wisp Big Band and is a member of the Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Chris Berg has a 40-year career performing live, in

Naturally 7  - Sunday, February 2, 2025 7:00 pm The jaw-dropping audio pyrotechnics that Naturally 7 put on display every night absolutely belong in that category. “A capella group” so vastly underplays what they create onstage that they had to coin a phrase - “Vocal Play” - to more accurately depict what they do. Naturally 7 is more than a tightly orchestrated collection of great singers. They transform their voices into actual human instruments, effortlessly producing music of any genre. Their vocal choreography is so perfectly interwoven that they compelled the musical maestro himself, Quincy Jones, to declare them “The best

Drawing Room Chamber Concert Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 7:30 pm with Ji Hyang Gwak, piano Hayner’s Drawing Room Chamber concert for February will feature a gifted pianist from Korea, Dr. Ji Hyang Gwak. Dr. Gwak has performed throughout the world including Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and Korea. She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance, summa cum laude, from Seoul National University and a Master of Music from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the University of Michigan. She has won many