Faculty

2023-24 Faculty

Tyler Abbott
Instructor
(jazz bass)
abbott@uoregon.edu

Keith Brown
Assistant Professor of Jazz & Contemporary Piano
(jazz piano, theory, composition, advanced repertoire, small ensembles)
keithb@uoregon.edu

Ken Mastrogiovanni
Instructor
(jazz drumset, latin jazz ensemble)
kmastro3@uoregon.edu

Paul Krueger
Assistant Professor and Director of Jazz Studies
(jazz pedagogy, jazz arranging, jazz trumpet, large jazz ensembles, small jazz ensembles)
kruegerp@uoregon.edu

Joe Manis
Instructor
(small jazz ensembles, large jazz ensembles, jazz improvisation)
jmanis@uoregon.edu

Torrey Newhart
Instructor
(jazz arranging)
newhart@uoregon.edu

Steve Owen
Director, Jazz Studies
(jazz performance labs, composition/arranging)
sowen@uoregon.edu

Sean Peterson
Instructor
(jazz history)
peterso9@uoregon.edu

Avery Scanlon
Instructor
(jazz guitar)
ascanlo2@uoregon.edu

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

2023 – 2024 Jazz Graduate Employees (GEs)

Nik Barber
ngb@uoregon.edu

Julian Borkowski
jborkow3@uoregon.edu

Nick Burton
nburton@uoregon.edu

Olivia Fields
ofields@uoregon.edu

Eli Hansen
elijahh@uoregon.edu

Ben Harris
bharris5@uoregon.edu

Robert Lassila
rlassila@uoregon.edu