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Jazz Faculty and Graduate Teaching Fellows

Jazz Faculty
Jazz Graduate Teaching Fellows




Jazz Faculty

Tyler Abbott
Adjunct Instructor
(jazz bass)
tylerabbott@hotmail.com

Mike Denny 
Full-time Instructor
(jazz guitar, small jazz ensembles, theory, improvisation)
mdenny@uoregon.edu

Gary Hobbs
Adjunct Instructor
(jazz drumset)
tubmanbeat@hotmail.com

Toby Koenigsberg
Associate Director, Jazz Studies
(jazz piano, repertoire, composition/arranging, small jazz ensembles)
tobyk@uoregon.edu

Don Latarski
Adjunct Instructor
(studio guitar, recording techniques)
latarski@uoregon.edu

Brian McWhorter
Professor of Trumpet
(jazz trumpet)
bjm@uoregon.edu

Steve Owen
Director, Jazz Studies
(Oregon Jazz Ensemble, small jazz ensembles, jazz performance labs, composition/arranging, repertoire, pedagogy)
sowen@uoregon.edu

Idit Shner
Professor of Saxophone
(jazz saxophone, ensembles)
ishner@uoregon.edu

Carl Woideck
Adjunct Instructor
(jazz history, rock history, blues history)
cwoideck@uoregon.edu

 

2012 - 2013 Jazz Graduate Teaching Fellows

Patrick Jones
(small jazz ensembles, jazz combo concert coordinator)
jones@uoregon.edu

Jessika Leek
(small jazz ensemble, jazz performance lab asst., studio jazz sax)
jessikal@uoregon.edu


Torrey Newhart
(latin jazz ensemble, jazz history asst., small jazz ensembles)
newhart@uoregon.edu

Sean Peterson
(administrative asst., small jazz ensemble, jazz lab asst., jazz bass)
peterso9@uoregon.edu

Nate Roberts
(small jazz ensemble, jazz history asst.)
nrobert5@uoregon.edu

Steve Sharp
(jazz lab band II director, small jazz ensemble, studio jazz trpt.)
sharp@uoregon.edu

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