Skylar Tang Quartet, presented by 18th Street Arts Center’s Make Jazz Fellowship Saturday, March 14 | Streaming starts at 7PM World Stage, Leimert Park Free + Open to the Public RSVP required for in-person attendance. Also available via livestream. Celebrate the next generation of jazz innovation at the Make Jazz Fellowship Culminating Concert, featuring 2026 fellow Skylar Tang in an unforgettable evening of new compositions and improvisational brilliance. Held at the legendary World Stage in Leimert Park, this special performance marks the culmination of the fellowship’s creative journey and will be available both in-person (RSVP required, see below) and via livestream. Skylar Tang is a multidisciplinary musician known for her dynamic trumpet playing and profound compositions. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Tang currently studies History and Jazz Performance at Columbia University and The Juilliard School in New York City. Sponsored by the Herb Alpert Foundation to honor and support jazz artists, 18th Street Arts Center annually hosts its Make Jazz Fellowship, awarded to a jazz composer for a three-month, fully funded residency. This opportunity is for an individual jazz artist to advance or complete a body of original compositions, while living and working on 18th Street Arts Center’s campus. The award supports the artist by providing a monthly stipend, a furnished live-in studio, and arranged opportunities for collaborative and educational partnerships with Los Angeles-area musicians, colleges, and universities. This event will be in-person at the World Stage and live-streamed online. Guest Musicians William Schwartzman William Schwartzman is a jazz performance major at The Juilliard School and a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Having studied under pianists Ted Rosenthal, Taylor Eigsti and the late Mike Lang, William has had the privilege of performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Inspired by a wide range of music, William’s study of jazz has earned him early success, with multiple DownBeat Student Music Awards, the Grand Prize Winner in the Music Center’s Spotlight competition, and member of Gerald Clayton’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra and Sean Jones’s NYO (National Youth Orchestra) Jazz ensemble. William has shared the stage with renowned jazz musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Patrick Bartley. He hopes to use music to share his dreams for how our world could be. Instagram: @williamschwartzman John Murray Hailing from San Diego, California, John Murray started working professionally as a bassist at the age of 14. The winner of multiple prestigious awards at a young age, he now attends The Juilliard School in New York. He has performed with Gerald Clayton, Charles McPherson, Jeff Hamilton, Ulysses Owens Jr., Immanuel Wilkins, and more. John also performs re...
