Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert with the Ross Margitza Quintet! We'll be using minimal amplification and enforcing our signature whisper policy to ensure guests and livestream viewers can enjoy the acoustic concert to its fullest potential.

Ross Margitza - Piano

Diego Rivera - Saxophones

Mike Sailors - Trumpet

Jeremy George - Bass

Josh Davis - Drums

Jazz pianist Ross Margitza, returning to Austin from his residency in Los Angeles in 2017-2022, is also an accomplished trumpeter, composer, arranger, and educator. As a young musician, he studied with his father and grandfather, who were processional pianists in Detroit, Michigan. He started playing piano at six years old and the trumpet at age 10. He decided he wanted to become a jazz musician after listening to the recording “West Side Story,” by pianist Oscar Peterson.

Margitza received his BA from Michigan State University in 2009, his MA from Northern Illinois University in 2011, and his DMA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.

He has performed with musicians such as Jon Faddis, Phil Woods, Gerald Wilson, Patti Austin, Rodney Whitaker, Wess Anderson, Antonio Hart, Lynn Roberts, and Christian McBride.

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Watch in UHD @ youtu.be/2bKFRVj8o0E