The Festival’s Mission
The Casper College Kinser Jazz Festival mission is to promote jazz education in Wyoming. It strives to foster and celebrate greater cultural awareness and divisersity within the community.

GENERAL INFORMATION
High school and junior high/middle school ensembles perform in noncompetitive settings, with the option of receiving an assessment score and rating from adjudicators, who base their assessment on high, professional standards, which may not coincide with the standards of the Wyoming Music Educators Association.

Each ensemble is scheduled for a 30-minute public performance, which includes set up, a brief public clinic with an adjudicator, and a strike. Thereafter, each ensemble receives an additional 30-minute clinic with an adjudicator in a nonpublic setting. The ensemble receives the adjudicators’ written comments, rating scores (if required), and a digital video recording of the performance and clinic.

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Casper College is an institutional member of the
International Association of Jazz Educators
and the National Association of Schools of Music.

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Kinser Jazz Festival Committee

• Robert Kleinschmidt, Executive Director 
  268-2246 rkleinschmidt@caspercollege.edu
  
• Patrick Patton, Vocal Director
  268-2603 ppatton@caspercollege.edu
  
• Tracy Pfau, Instrumental Director
  268-2629 tpfau@caspercollege.edu
  
• Deanna Dyer, Coordinator
  268-2606 ddyer@caspercollege.edu
  
• Jean Tichenor, College Audition Coordinator
  268-2607 tichenor@caspercollege.edu

Jazz Festival

Dr. Thomas Kinser

Featured Artists - The Idea of North

Concert Tickets

Adjudicators

Artists & Clinicians

Schedule of Events

Registration Information

Location & Lodging

All-State Jazz Choir

Evaluation Forms

Jazz Festival Archive

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Concert Tickets Food Service Form Photograph Order Form Registration Form Scholarship Audition Form Stage Set-up Form (Instrument) Stage Set-up Form (Vocal)