Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency Concert: Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade!
Jenny Scheinman - violin Carmen Staaf - piano Tony Scherr - bass Kenny Wollesen - drums Keith Ganz - guitar
Friday, November 6th, 2026 7:00 PM The Orpheum Theatre, Galesburg, IL Free and open to the public
The fourteenth annual Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency culminates in a concert at the historic Orpheum Theatre, featuring the Mirza Resident artists Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade, the Knox Jazz Ensemble and the Cherry St Combo.
World-Renowned Jazz on the Illinois Prairie
The Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency at Knox College brings world-renowned jazz artists to campus for a week of intensive and collaborative jazz activities with Knox College students, culminating in a free public concert at the historic Orpheum Theatre.
The Jerome Mirza Foundation supports programs in education and the arts and was created by a bequest from Jerome Mirza, an attorney who served as president of the Illinois State Bar Association and Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Mirza was a passionate jazz aficionado, and Knox College is pleased to have this opportunity to honor his memory by sharing the love of jazz with the campus and Galesburg communities. Mirza's daughter, Candace Mirza of Wilmette, Illinois, is a 1981 Knox graduate.
About the artist
Jenny Scheinman is an acclaimed violinist, fiddler, singer, composer, and songwriter whose music bridges jazz, Americana, folk, and contemporary improvised music. A longtime collaborator with some of the most innovative artists in jazz, she has performed and recorded extensively with Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Jason Moran, Brian Blade, Allison Miller, Nels Cline, and Marc Ribot, as well as songwriting legends including Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, Bruce Cockburn, Rodney Crowell, Robbie Fulks, and Ani DiFranco.
Scheinman has appeared on numerous Grammy Award-winning recordings, including Norah Jones’s Come Away with Me and Bill Frisell’s Unspeakable. She is also featured on the original cast recording of Anaïs Mitchell’s acclaimed musical Hadestown.
One of the leading jazz violinists of her generation, Scheinman was named Violinist of the Year in the 2026 DownBeat Critics Poll and previously won the poll’s Rising Star Violinist category five consecutive years, from 2003–2007. She has remained a fixture near the top of DownBeat critics and readers polls for more than two decades.
Scheinman has released eleven albums of original music, including her acclaimed 2024 release All Species Parade. Her work also extends beyond the concert stage: in 2015 she premiered Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait, a multimedia work combining her original live score with archival film footage, which has since been presented in theaters around the country.
The thirteenth annual Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency featured Shadowlands, the captivating collaboration between Grammy-nominated jazz trumpeter John Raymond and Bon Iver sideman S. Carey.
