This event is part of the 2025 URI Guitar and Mandolin Festival!This event starts off the final day of the URI Guitar and Mandolin Festival's 10TH ANNIVERSARY with a bang! Come see the finalists compete for $8,000 in prizes! Watch our brightest stars of tomorrow shine on stage today, then find out who are the winners at the FINAL EVENT, the GALA FINALE CONCERT! Adam Levin, coordinator.

Come see even more jazzy tunes played by URI's finest jazz musicians! Dr. Emmett Goods, coordinator.

The URI Symphony Orchestra will perform music by Shostakovich, Rodgers, Grieg and a world premier, "Humans on Earth", by Kingston RI pianist and social activist, Christine Müller. Also featured is URI piano professor Dr. Manabu Takasawa in 19th century German wunderkind composer Carl Filtsch's Konzertstück for piano and orchestra. Luis Viquez, director.

The URI Symphony Orchestra will perform the music of Dimitri Shostakovich, Richard Rodgers, Edvard Grieg and a world premier of "Humans on Earth" by Kingston, RI pianist and social activist Christine Müller. Also featured will be URI Piano Teacher Dr. Manabu Takasawa perfoming the rarely heard "Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra" by German wunderkind composer Carl Filtsch (1830-1845).

The URI Jazz Big Band presents an evening of music by Duke Ellington in honor of his 125th birthday! Dr. Emmett Goods will give a pre-concert lecture about Ellington's music at 7pm. Dr. Emmett Goods, director.

Witness this captivating performance provided by URI's finest jazz musicians, led by our talented Dr. Emmett Goods, director.