Nashville Intercollegiate All-Stars with Marc Widenhofer

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Nashville Intercollegiate All-Stars with Marc Widenhofer

Sunday, December 6, 2026, 7:30 PM

Nashville Jazz Workshop

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Some of the best young jazz musicians in Nashville, together on one stage. The Nashville Intercollegiate All-Stars is a brand new large ensemble that brings top students from colleges and universities across the city together to play as one band, coached by a rotating cast of jazz faculty from the schools they represent.

For the first concert, Vanderbilt's Marc Widenhofer leads the band. Come hear the next generation of Nashville jazz up close in the Jazz Cave, and be there at the start of something new.

About Marc Widenhofer:

As a versatile jazz drummer, Marc Widenhofer has performed with John Clayton, Houston Person, Joel Frahm, Pat Coil, Bruce Dudley, Don Aliquo, Ron Bridgewater, Janguen Bae, Bert Ligon, Chip Stephens, Larry Gray, Chip McNeil, The Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra and was a featured artist headlining the 2012 Taichung International Jazz Festival with the JB Trio and Greg Osby. Widenhofer has also toured internationally throughout China with Nashville-based band, Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, recording their 2017 release Live from China! (DMHO). Currently, Widenhofer maintains an active performing and recording schedule in Nashville.

An active educator and clinician, Widenhofer has held teaching positions at the University of South Carolina-Columbia, Lander University, USC-Aiken and Greenville College. In addition to his teaching positions, Widenhofer has held masterclasses focussing on jazz drumming and group performance concepts at Millikin University, Anderson University, and the University of Minnesota, Morris. Widenhofer is currently on the faculty at Vanderbilt University in the Blair School of Music as part of the Jazz Studies Department where, under his direction, Vanderbilt Latin Jazz was invited to perform at the 2023 Jazz Education Network Conference and have received DownBeat Student Music Awards in 2025 and 2026.

This project is funded in part by Metro Arts.