The members of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet (BIJQ) are in the Institute's Fellowship Program. Winners of numerous DownBeat awards, including the 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 awards for best collegiate jazz group in the country, this group has performed on the Monterey Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, Brubeck Festival, Detroit International Jazz Festival, and others, and have done concerts in California, New York, Washington, Florida, Texas, Chicago, Toronto, Minneapolis, Washington DC, and on a State Department tour in Spain.

They have also performed in jazz clubs such as Yoshi's in Oakland, Herb Alpert's club Vibrato in Los Angeles, Blues Alley in Washington DC, the Dakota in Minneapolis, and the Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona. They have also performed at the annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education, and at the First Annual Jazz Education Network conference in St. Louis, MO.

The BIJQ does clinics and performances in schools throughout the country.

The members of the 2011-2012 BIJQ: Tree Palmedo, trumpet, from Portland, OR; Rane Roatta, tenor sax, from Miami, FL; Alec Watson, piano, from Geneva, IL; Bill Vonderhaar, bass, from Houston, TX; Malachi Whitson, drums, from Richmond, CA

For information about booking the BIJQ, please contact Andrew Schneiderman at 209-946-2187 or aschneiderman@pacific.edu