Co-President: Pelopidas Nicolaides – pelopida@wharton.upenn.edu  (267)237-7303

Co-President: Masao Ukon – maukon@wharton.upenn.edu  (267)312-6217

Treasurer: Leonardo Goncalves – leonardo@wharton.upenn.edu  (267)679-1693

The Wharton Jazz Club is dedicated to providing Jazz education and recreation to the Wharton MBA community.

Social, open to MBA students and partners, with annual fees set at $10; annual elections to be held to determine Club Officers.

With a large group of students and partners interested in listening to and sometimes playing Jazz, our goal is to provide an arena for these people to get together and enjoy the genre. The Jazz Club also aims to provide a post MBA network to leverage the community members when visiting other countries and cities. The club will focus on:

      Increasing awareness of the genre for novice listeners and neophytes

      Providing Jazz education in general

      Inviting guest speakers from Academia, business and the music setting

      Leveraging the group size for discounts at clubs, concerts and other events such as excursions to jazz fests

      Organizing joint events with other social clubs like the cigar club, the wine club, culinary club and the undergraduate Penn Jazz club

      Bringing together student musicians to use the club as an outlet for creativity and practice

      Creating impromptu performing jazz ensembles

      Providing an up-to-date website, with a calendar of events in general, jazz info etc

      Speaker Series – Experts will be brought in to discuss Jazz appreciation, including stylistic and national differences

      Jazz Brunch and Dinner series – with live Jazz in venues like Zanzibar Blue

      Regular Events – Based on member feedback

      Annual Trip to a selected key festival like the New Orleans Jazz Fest

      Sponsorships – approaching a number of well-known clubs and labels to suggest sponsorship of the Club for mutual interest.