The Novembre Jazz UPV festival celebrates its 30th edition, from November 4 to 14, 2024. Throughout its 30
years of history the festival, the result of the collaboration between the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Institut
Valencià de Cultura of the Generalitat Valenciana, has established itself as one of the most important musical events of the year.
nationally and internationally renowned Valencians, carrying out an important work in this field.
support for emerging Valencian musical talent, in addition to hosting numerous stars.
international prestige.
The festival starts on Monday, November 4 at the Vera Campus of the UPV, renewing the collaboration with
Berklee Valencia, starting in 2023. The quartet of the Iranian-American singer Elana Sasson will perform
an attractive proposal where different musical traditions come together.
On Tuesday 5, at the Vera Campus of the UPV, and on Friday 8, at the UPV Campus of Gandia, Martina
Sabariego, a composer, double bass player and guitarist who is currently studying in Boston, tells us
will show, in front of a group of young talents, the freshness of his unclassifiable music, as embodied in his
first album, Xano Xano.
Then, on Wednesday 6th, the trumpeter Pepe Zaragozá will present his project Efímer, with a
luxury quintet, at the Vera Campus of the UPV.
On Thursday 7th we moved to the Teatre Principal de València to listen to the powerful quartet of the
Californian saxophonist David Murray, a musician who combines tradition and the avant-garde and is part of the
history of the genre. The Madrid-born pianist Marta Sánchez, who lives in New York, is one of the most outstanding members of the group.
And, after the outing to the Teatre Principal, we return on Friday 8 to the Fine Arts Auditorium of the UPV for
another young performer, saxophonist Rosana Díaz, director of the Sedajazz School, who is also the director of the Sedajazz School.
former student of the UPV. Rosana Díaz’s quartet will perform again a few days later, on Thursday 14, at
the UPV Campus of Alcoi, the Jazz Club Mussol in “La mujer barbuda”, where he will close Novembre Jazz.
UPV 2024, which, in the words of Jorge García, artistic director of the festival, is “an obligatory and recognized event.
of the jazz autumn in Valencia, Gandia and Alcoi”.