Dan Cavanagh Quartet

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Katrin Talbot

Dan Cavanagh and a piano.

Dan Cavanagh

Dan Cavanagh, director of the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music and a longtime educator, is also an award-winning jazz and classical composer and pianist. It’s the jazz side that comes to the forefront for this concert. Cavanagh leads a quartet featuring two collaborators from summer 2025 recording sessions for his upcoming album of new compositions — alto sax player Remy Le Boeuf and drummer Shinya Fukumori — along with Madison bassist Peter Dominguez. It’s contemporary jazz with brains and bite, led by someone who can run a school by day and still chase the good stuff at night.