International Jazz Day isn’t until April 30 but within the New Jersey Performing Arts Center downtown Newark—at the intimate Victoria Theater—a free April 26 Sunday afternoon jazz concert at 4:00 p.m. will feature over 100 young musicians from the NJPAC TD Jazz for Teens Moody Jazz Orchestra, George Wein’s Scholars Ensemble, Montclair’s Jazz House Kids, Riverdale Country School (Bronx, NY) and Pennsylvania’s Valley Jazz Orchestra.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark has announced its 2025-2026 winter season of classical music. San Francisco’s Chanticleer, “The World’s Reigning Male Chorus” (according to The New Yorker magazine), kicks it off December 6 at 3:00 p.m. with its “Chanticleer Christmas” presentation.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark has announced the lineup of events for its 2025-2026 Season of Dance which will include World Premieres by the New Jersey Ballet, the “rebellious arts organism” known as Pilobolus and its “Other Worlds Collection,” the Newark debut of “Tango After Dark,” “The Jersey Nutcracker,” the State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine’s new production of “Sleeping Beauty,” the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the Fort Lee-based Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company,

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center at One Center Street in Newark has announced its shows for the preliminary fall season of jazz. Tickets went on sale last week for the following.

Who plays an instrument? Who sings? Who thinks they can hold their own in a small jazz room with professionals? If so, you might want to mosey on down to downtown Newark because The Rutgers University Institute for Jazz Studies, in cooperation with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), will continue its series of monthly jazz jams in the new year on the Rutgers campus at the cozy Clement’s Place within Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall on Washington Street, Newark.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has impacted thousands of young musicians for the past 27 years. Registration is now open (closing September 23) for its “Jazz For Teens” 2024-2025 Education Program. The fall semester is October 5 to December 4. The spring semester is January 25 to May 17. Student musicians from ages 13 to 18 can apply.