
Jazz In The Pines
Festival & Student Clinic
July 3rd-15th, 2023
Faculty & Student Performances • Featured Artists • Master Classes • Open Rehearsals • Book Readings • Podcast Recording • Alumni Events • Artist Talkbacks • Panel Discussions • VIP Lounge
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Includes preferred seating and access to VIP lounge, featuring artist visits, hors d’oeuvres and alcoholic beverages.
Includes 1 VIP ticket to both headliner events, preferred seating and access to VIP lounge, featuring artist visits, hors d’oeuvres & alcoholic beverages, tickets to all other campus events, and access to select master classes, podcast recording, open rehearsals and book reading.
Please consider a donation to support student scholarships at Idyllwild Arts.
Student Clinic Registration
The Jazz In The Pines Festival returns with a new name and a renewed purpose for the first two weeks of July 2023. Building a bridge between the professionals we’ve loved for years and the next generation of jazz artists, the new Jazz In The Pines Festival & Student Clinic restores the original vision of festival co-founder Dr. Marshall Hawkins; the legendary bassist, beloved teacher, and walking treasure trove of jazz. The Jazz In The Pines Festival & Student Clinic now centers around the students, giving these young musicians a chance to play alongside some of the great practitioners of contemporary jazz.
2023 Performance Schedule

Monday, July 3
7:30pm
Idyllwild Arts Jazz Faculty Combo Concert
Hosted at:
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Tuesday, July 4
10am
Euphoria Brass Band
Hosted at:
Idyllwild 4th of July Parade
Tuesday, July 4
2-4pm
Euphoria Brass Band
*Dinner Reservations Required
Hosted at:
FERRO
25840 Cedar St
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Tuesday, July 4
6:30-9:30pm
The Marshall Hawkins Trio
*Dinner Reservations Required
Hosted at:
FERRO
25840 Cedar St
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Tuesday, July 4
7:30-9pm
Euphoria Brass Band Masterclass for the Jazz In The Pines Student Clinic
*Purchase All-Fest Sponsorship
Live Recording of Idyllwild Arts Foundation President Pamela Jordan’s podcast “One World. One Idyllwild. The Series”.
Hosted at:
Stephens Recital Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA
Wednesday, July 5
6:30-8:30pm
The Dave Tull Trio
*Reservations Encouraged
Hosted at:
The Creekstone
54950 Pine Crest Ave
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Thursday, July 6
6:30-8:30pm
The Tom Hynes Duo
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Cafe Aroma
54750 N Circle Dr, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA 92549

Thursday, July 6
7:30pm
Jazz at The Merc presents
The Joshua White Trio
*Tickets Coming Soon
Hosted at:
The Merc
42051 Main St
Temecula, CA

Friday, July 7
4-7pm
The Dan St. Marseille Trio
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Middle Ridge Winery
54301 N Circle Dr
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Friday, July 7
6:30-9:30pm
The Idyllwild Arts Faculty Jazz Jam
*Dinner Reservations Required
Hosted at:
FERRO
25840 Cedar St
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Saturday, July 8
10am
Jazz In The Pines Student Showcase
Hosted at:
Holmes Amphitheatre
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Saturday, July 8
1-3pm
Jazz Founders Concert featuring The Yve Evans Trio
*Tickets Coming Soon – $40
“Celebrating the Founders of Jazz in the Pines”
Presented by The Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation
Hosted at:
Harvey House
54420 S Circle Dr
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Saturday, July 8
3-6pm
The Marshall Hawkins Trio
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Middle Ridge Winery
54301 N Circle Dr
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Saturday, July 8
7:30pm
Grammy Award-Winning John Daversa
Featuring The Idyllwild Arts All-Star Jazz Comb
Hosted at:
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Sunday, July 9
10am
Yve Evans’ Voices of Praise
Hosted at:
Margaret A. Cargill Commons
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Sunday, July 9
2-5pm
The Rose Colella Quartet
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Middle Ridge Winery
54301 N Circle Dr
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Sunday, July 9
6:30-7:30pm
Marshall Hawkins Autobiography Preview Reading
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Grand Idyllwild Lodge
54820 Pine Crest Ave
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Monday, July 10
7:30pm
Idyllwild Arts Jazz Faculty Combo Concert
Hosted at:
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Tuesday, July 11
6:30-9:30pm
The Marshall Hawkins Trio
*Dinner Reservations Required
Hosted at:
FERRO
25840 Cedar St
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Tuesday, July 11
6:30-8:30pm
The Ron Kobayashi Trio
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Grand Idyllwild Lodge
54820 Pine Crest Ave,
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Wednesday, July 12
7:30pm
Idyllwild Arts Jazz Faculty Big Band Concert
Hosted at:
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Thursday, July 13
7:30pm
Jazz at The Merc presents
The Tina Raymond Trio
*Tickets Coming Soon
Hosted at:
The Merc
42051 Main St
Temecula, CA

Friday, July 14
7:30pm
Marshall Hawkins’ Seahawk MOJO, Women in Jazz: featuring Sherry Williams, Yve Evans & Rose Colella
Hosted at:
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Saturday, July 15
10am
Jazz In The Pines Student Culmination Showcase
Hosted at:
Holmes Amphitheatre
Idyllwild Arts Campus
52500 Temecula Road
Idyllwild, CA

Saturday, July 15
11am-1pm
Idyllwild Arts Alumni Jazz Combo
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Idyll Awhile Gazebo
54245 N Circle Dr C-8, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA 92549

Saturday, July 15
1-3pm
Idyllwild Arts Alumni Jazz Combo
*No Ticket Required
Hosted at:
Idyll Awhile Gazebo
54245 N Circle Dr C-8, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA 92549

Saturday, July 15
6:30-8:30pm
Nora Germain
*Reservations Encouraged
Hosted at:
Grand Idyllwild Lodge
54820 Pine Crest Ave
Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA
Headliners
Grammy Award-Winner John Daversa
showcasing The Idyllwild Arts All-Star Student Jazz Combo
July 8th 7:30 pm
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus

Marshall Hawkins’ Seahawk MOJO, Women in Jazz: featuring Sherry Williams, Yve Evans & Rose Colella
July 14th 7:30 pm
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
Idyllwild Arts Campus
Student Performers

Jazz In The Pines Student Showcase
July 8th 10am
Holmes Amphitheatre
Idyllwild Arts Campus

Jazz In The Pines Student Culmination Showcase
July 15th 10am
Holmes Amphitheatre
Idyllwild Arts Campus

Dear Friends,
We are delighted to have Jazz In the Pines Festival & Student Clinic return in a new format that now serves young jazz enthusiasts from around the world. The Festival & Student Clinic builds a bridge between the professionals we’ve loved for years and the next generation of jazz artists.
Teaching young artists through a master teacher – apprentice model is the cornerstone on which Idyllwild Arts has built a legacy of excellence. Each year, hundreds of summer campers and academy students travel 5,200 feet into the mountains to Idyllwild, California. Once here, they walk onto a picturesque campus with dorms, charming classrooms, practice rooms and studios, all surrounded by beautiful, wooded terrain.
Marshall Hawkins, Jazz In The Pines Festival & Student Clinic co-founder, says, “Jazz is a catalyst for love and respect, a beacon that shines on the truth.” That is a sentiment that we embrace because at Idyllwild Arts, we believe that art is the greatest teacher of humanity and that art itself is not the sole outcome of a creative life but rather the means to constant and necessary growth – personally, professionally, and globally. We are excited about this year’s Festival & Student Clinic that brings Grammy-Award winners, studio musicians, recording artists, and other professional Jazz musicians to our campus.
Thank you for your interest in Jazz In The Pines Festival & Student Clinic. We invite you to join us for one or several events. While the professional musicians will “wow” and entertain you, I guarantee that the students will impress and inspire you. Do yourselves a favor and get here!
Warm regards,
Pamela Jordan
President and Head of School
Pamela Jordan was appointed President of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation in July 2014. Prior to joining IAF, she worked at the Chicago Academy for the Arts (CAA) for twenty-three years, serving as Head of School for thirteen years. Jordan received a Bachelor of Music from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma and a Master of Education from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Jordan is a former faculty member of the National Association of Independent Schools’ Institute for New Heads. She has served on the boards of the Independent Schools Association of the Central States, Lake Michigan Association of Independent Schools, and Arts Schools Network. She currently serves on the board of The Association of Boardings Schools. Jordan has served as a resource panelist to the School of the Arts, Singapore, where she also delivered the keynote address for the school’s first bi-annual Arts Forum.
Learn more about the history of Jazz In The Pines, and its Co-Founder, Dr. Marshall Hawkins
Marshall Hawkins’ upcoming birthday will make him eighty-one years young.
“Oh, yeah,” he grinned one recent morning. “But I’m not slowing down. I’m moving smarter.”
That gift of eternal youth explains why Hawkins continues to look ahead, rather than settle for a well-earned rest on his laurels. Eternal youth explains why he’s thrilled about the rebirth and reinvention of Jazz in the Pines. The education of young musicians is now crucial to his brainchild, which is twenty-five years old and counting.
The jazz master founded Jazz in the Pines in 1994, along with Barbara Wood and Lynn Carlson. In 2015 the Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation handed over the running of Jazz in the Pines to Idyllwild Arts. Since then, Hawkins’ role has expanded because of his involvement with Idyllwild Arts, where he is a beloved teacher.
“When you’re involved with art,” he said, “you’re second. So the new Jazz in the Pines isn’t a festival, meaning it isn’t just a party and isn’t just entertainment. The new Jazz in the Pines is a state of mind. It’s an expression of shared wonder about the power of jazz not only to speak generation after generation, but to help one generation speak to another generation.”
No one has spoken more powerfully generation after generation, or from his own generation to much younger ones, than Marshall Hawkins.
“Jazz is a catalyst for love and respect, a beacon that shines on the truth. It’s what I’ve always been honored to feel when I played jazz, and what I’ve also been honored to feel during these exciting conversations, month after month since August 2018, with the other people involved in planning the new Jazz in the Pines. We’ve had love and respect and truth in the room, along with Bob Boss and Harry Pickens, and Evan Christopher and Jason Jackson and others—including of course the President of Idyllwild Arts, Pamela Jordan.”
Hawkins has always insisted that his power to communicate belongs ultimately not to himself, but to the music. The power is on loan to him only for as long as he gives the music its freedom.
“It’s like it wasn’t just us in the room, because that openness to what the music can do made a place in the room for everybody who’s open to the music.”
He shrugged.
“Connecting. This is all about love of the power of music to connect people to each other. This is what the new Jazz in the Pines is all about.”

All-Fest Sponsorship

Includes 1 VIP ticket to both headliner events, preferred seating and access to VIP lounge, featuring artist visits, hors d’oeuvres & alcoholic beverages, tickets to all other campus events, and access to select master classes, podcast recording, open rehearsals and book reading.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship Levels
Presenting Sponsor – $25,000
*charitable portion $22,250
10 VIP All-Fest Sponsorship Passes for you and your guests
Naming Opportunity for Performances of John Daversa Small Band, Marshall Hawkins’ Seahawk MOJO, and the Student Amphitheater Showcase. Recognition on the website, at all venues, and from stages. Recognition on the One World. One Idyllwild. The Series. podcast with Euphoria Brass Band. Link to business on website.
Jazz Legend – $10,000
*charitable portion $8,350
6 VIP All-Fest Sponsorship Passes for you and your guests
Naming Opportunity for Faculty Combo and Big Band Concerts. Recognition on the website, at all venues and from stages. Link to business on website.
Jazz Master – $5,000
*charitable portion $3,900
4 VIP All-Fest Sponsorship Passes for you and your guests
Recognition on the website, and at all venues. Link to business on website.
Jazz Advocate – $2,500
*charitable portion $1,100
4 VIP All-Fest Sponsorship Passes for you and your guests
Recognition on the website with link to business.
Jazz Fan – $1,000
*charitable portion $450
2 VIP All-Fest Sponsorship Passes for you and your guests
Recognition on the website.
VIP All-Fest Sponsorship – $500
*charitable portion $225
Includes 1 VIP ticket to both headliner events, preferred seating and access to VIP lounge, featuring artist visits, hors d’oeuvres & alcoholic beverages, tickets to all other campus events, and access to select master classes, podcast recording, open rehearsals and book reading.
* Supports the students of Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program
Contact Rose Colella, Festival Producer, for more info at rcolella@idyllwildarts.org.
*Please consider a donation to support student scholarships at Idyllwild Arts.
“The new Jazz In The Pines is a state of mind. It’s an expression of shared wonder about the power of jazz not only to speak generation after generation, but to help one generation speak to another generation.”
– Marshall Hawkins, Jazz In The Pines Founder
“The trip up the mountain becomes more than a physical journey; it becomes a journey of awakening to a new way of being – a state of consciousness characterized by self-awareness, authentic connection, mutual respect, clear communication, personal mastery, common language and individual expression in service of a common ideal.”
– Harry Pickens, Musician & Author
“By bringing together artists of all ages, Jazz In The Pines now aligns with what Idyllwild Arts has done exceptionally well for nearly 75 years. By ensuring a continuing dialogue of artistic expression, younger generations are taught to embrace the universal language of the arts to change lives and connect with human kind.”
– Pamela Jordan, President, Idyllwild Arts
Jazz In The Pines supports and empowers the students of Idyllwild Arts through an inter-generational teaching-artist model anchored in the strategies of jazz music and the artistry of its greatest practitioners.