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Doudna Fina Arts Center Events: Week of February 2-8, 2026

Performances/Events at the Doudna Fine Arts Center the week of February 2 through February 8, 2026:

Napoleon Electronic Music Festival
Tuesday, February 3rd, 7:30 p.m. @ the Black Box
Free and Open to the Public
EIU invites Matthew Mason for the 2026 Napoleon Electronic Media Festival to perform his concert program titled "Altered Bodies: newly commissioned works for Piano and Electronics." This program features eight new works by underrepresented composers and works that feature the piano in combination with electronic processing and media in a variety of ways.

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John Clayton at the 66th Annual EIU Jazz Fest
Friday, February 6th, 7:30 p.m. @ the Dvorak Concert Hall
$25 General Audiences / $20 EIU Employees & Senior / $15 EIU Student & Youth (17 and under) / $10 Festival Attendees
The guest for EIU's 2026 Jazz Fest is the bassist, composer, arranger and producer John Clayton, a very busy man. He is a Grammy winner with nine additional nominations and has written and/or recorded with artists such as Diana Krall, Paul McCartney, Queen Latifah, and Yo Yo Ma, to name only a few. John was the principal bassist in the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1980-84. In addition to his individual clinics and workshops, he also directs the educational components of Centrum, The Port Townsend Jazz Festival, and the Vail Jazz Workshop. It is John's arrangement of the "Star Spangled Banner" that helped propel Whitney Houston in her 1990 performance at the Super Bowl (the recording went platinum).

• EIU's Jazz Fest will be the following day, Saturday, February 7. It will have junior and senior high school performances and clinics, including a clinic by John Clayton.