Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 6:00pm
The Annex - Arizona Musicfest | TICKETS ON SALE AUGUST 18
Tickets
$35
Arizona Musicfest proudly presents a special reunion concert featuring pianist Josh Condon and jazz guitarist Gabe Condon—two accomplished musicians and cousins sharing the stage for an evening of jazz, original works, and fresh takes on familiar favorites.
Josh Condon serves as Resident Artist and Director of Community Music Programs at Arizona Musicfest. A classically trained jazz pianist and conductor, he has led dozens of theatrical productions and performed around the world, including on cruise lines and with regional symphonies. His engaging musical style spans genres from Broadway to big band.
Gabe Condon is an award-winning guitarist, composer, and educator. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Classical Guitar at Hamilton College. A three-time DownBeat Student Music Award winner and winner of the Wilson Center International Jazz Guitar Competition, Gabe holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan and degrees from the Eastman School of Music. He has performed and taught throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Together, the Condon cousins bring a vibrant mix of talent, creativity, and connection to the stage. Don’t miss this lively and heartfelt concert celebrating family, improvisation, and the joy of live music.
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Getting Here
The Annex
7950 E. Thompson Peak Parkway
Scottsdale, AZ 85255
7950 East Thompson Peak Parkway
7950 East Thompson Peak Parkway, Scottsdale, AZ 85255, USA
Gabe Condon
Guitar
Gabe Condon has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, and Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. He is a YoungArts Silver Award winner as well as a three-time Downbeat Magazine Student Music Award recipient. In 2022, he received a DAAD German Academic Exchange Service grant to perform and conduct research in Berlin, Germany. Condon’s research focuses on the intersection of Constructivist learning theory and jazz pedagogy in the context of European Sinti communities.
Previously, Condon taught as the instructor of jazz guitar at Washington State University, and as a lecturer of jazz studies at Ithaca College. He earned his B.M. and M.M. in jazz and contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music, and his Doctor of Musical Arts in jazz and contemporary improvisation from the University of Michigan.
Josh Condon
Piano
As a pianist equally adept in the genres of jazz, pop, and classical, Josh Condon has served as music director/supervisor for over 40 musical theatre productions, in addition to leading concerts with symphony orchestras, choirs, jazz ensembles, and pop/rock bands. He has traveled the world as a music director and pianist for the Norwegian, Celebrity, and Princess Cruise Lines where he worked with numerous Broadway and West End performers.
Currently, Josh serves as Resident Artist and Director of Community Music Programs for Arizona Musicfest in Scottsdale, an organization which features concert performances of the music industry’s top talent. In addition to serving as Assistant Conductor for the Musicfest Festival Orchestra, he lectures on topics surveying a huge breadth of music history and analysis, including popular song, symphonic repertoire, jazz performance practice, musical theatre, and everything in between.
He also serves as Assistant Conductor for the North Valley Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared as Guest Conductor with the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra, the Scottsdale Philharmonic, and the Arizona Musical Theatre Orchestra. Josh is passionate about using flexibility, positivity, and encouragement to create spaces where all can learn and perform to their best ability. He holds a BM in Jazz Studies from Ithaca College and an MM in Musical Theatre/Opera Music Direction from Arizona State University, and resides in Phoenix, AZ with his wife Lexy, their son Arlo, and their cat Sadie.