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  • Adjunct Associate Professor, School Of Music
801-244-8773

Current Courses

Fall 2024

  • MUSC 2181-001
    Jazz Keyboard Skills I
    Location: CANVAS (CANVAS)

Spring 2024

Teaching Philosophy

Here are the objectives I attempt to accomplish with each student:

1 - Be aware of the student's interests.  While maintaining the structure of the required material, be aware of the student's interests and attempt to include something in each lesson for which they have a passion, whether it be a style, a particular tune, or study of a particular artist.

2 - Along with the student's interests, be aware of each student's ways of processing material.  Some students respond more to visual, some to aural.  Some need to be shown, some like to figure something out for themselves.  Each student responds differently. 

3 - As an instructor, always be open to questions.  If a student's queries seem to be outside my present scope of knowledge, it immediately becomes an area of research for me.

Courses I Teach

  • 1943-009 - Lessons Major 1
    Private applied jazz piano lessons.
  • 1993-009 - Lessons Major 3
    Private applied jazz piano lessons.
  • 2181-001 - Jazz Keyboard Skills
    Jazz keyboard harmony for all jazz majors. Learn blues, rhythm changes, minor blues with several types of chord voicing, using simple to complex harmonies.

Small Group Teaching

  • Invited to meet with and critiqued University of Utah combo class (Denson Angulo, instructor).  02/17/2016  -  02/17/2016
  • Taught group jazz theory class Wasatch Music Coaching Academy.  05/26/2015  -  06/09/2015