Individual tickets and season subscriptions are now available for the 2024/2025 Izzy Asper Jazz Performances. This year, we are proud to have three incredible jazz performances for you to take in. Please note that season subscriptions will get you in to see all three performances throughout the year. 

Below is a breakdown of this year's concerts as well as your various purchase options.

2024/2025 Line-up:

Susie Arioli Quartet (2 options)
Saturday, November 16 | 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 17 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Berney Theatre, Rady JCC | 123 Doncaster Street

Our season opens with Montréal-based vocalist Susie Arioli and her band. Known for her warm sound, playful wit, and signature snare drum, Arioli has generated a dedicated following, rave reviews, and a host of awards, including the Oscar Peterson Prize and two Félix Awards, over the last three decades. Arioli’s brand new album, Embraceable, has led critic Frédéric Cardin to observe that “a Susie album is like returning to the roots of a happiness that is never forgotten or fades away.”

To mark our 25th anniversary, our opening concert pays special tribute to Izzy Asper, community builder, jazz aficionado, and visionary creator of this series. In the hour prior to each show, we are hosting a Roaring Twenties pre-concert celebration in the lobby. Dress up in your glamourous garb and toast our next 25!


Anat Cohen Quartetinho (1 show only)
Saturday, March 22 | 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Desautels Concert Hall, University of Manitoba | 150 Dafoe Road

GRAMMY-nominated reed sensation Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. Critics and readers polls consistently name her as the top clarinetist, and the New York Times has called her playing “a revelation.”

Cohen grew up in Israel and brings a truly international spirit to her chosen art form. Now based in New York, she has played with top-level artists from around the world. She will light up the new Desautels Concert Hall with Quartetinho, her quartet of virtuosic Brazilian multi-instrumentalists. Cohen fits right in—the Brazilian press says “Anat is an Israeli who seems like a Brazilian when she plays samba.”


Jane Bunnett & Maqueque (2 options)
Saturday, May 17 | 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 18 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Berney Theatre, Rady JCC | 123 Doncaster Street

An abiding passion for Afro-Cuban rhythms and melodies drives internationally-acclaimed musician and five-time Juno Award winner Jane Bunnett. Just over ten years ago, after countless visits to Cuba, she set about to mentor and record the brilliant young female musicians she was meeting there. In short order, that project became Maqueque, a sizzling all-woman band which has already hit DownBeat magazine’s top ten list of jazz groups. Last year they released their fourth album Playing with Fire.

Led by Bunnett on soprano saxophone and flute, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque showcases the irrepressible life and energy of genuine Afro-Cuban jazz.