EDUCATION:

Vander Cook College of Music, Chicago, IL
Major: Music Education
Flute and Clarinet major instruments
Master of Music Education - 1975

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Major: Music Education
Clarinet major instrument
Bachelor of Music Education - 1970

Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.
Jazz Performance Workshop - 1979

EXPERIENCE:

2001 to Present:

Triton College, River Grove, IL- Chairperson, Fine Arts Department

Administration of the: Art, Speech, Theater, Mass Communications, Journalism and Music areas.

1983 to Present

Triton College, River Grove, IL- Director of Bands

Responsibilities include direction of Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Jazz Combo and co-coordinator of adjunct faculty. In addition: development of a Jazz/Commercial Music Studies program, and teaching courses in Improvisation, Jazz History and Jazz Theory. Other responsibilities include recruitment, Applied Music and Music Theory.

1974 to 1981

Amos Alonzo Stagg High School, Dist. #230, Palos Hills, IL
Chairman of the Music Department and Band Director

Responsibilities included administration of the Music Department, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Music Theory, Music and the Media, and Beginning Instrument Instruction. A member of the District #230 Curriculum Committee. Also was a member of the Steering Committee for
the 1976 North Central Evaluation.

1971 to 1974

Fenger High School, Chicago, IL
Band Director

Responsibilities included Concert Band, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Intermediate Band, and Beginning Band.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1983 to 1986

New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Illinois Instructor of Jazz Improvisation Class

1980 to Present

Summer Jazz Clinics, Jamey Aebersold, Director
Bloomington, IL; San Jose, CA; Louisville, KY; Greeley, CO. Instructor

Responsibilities include Jazz Combo and Improvisation, Saxophone Master Class, Flute Master Class and concert performances.

1987 to Present

Jazz Wise Publication Summer School, London, England

Responsibilities include Jazz Combo and Improvisation, Saxophone Master Class, Flute Master Class and concert performances

1977 to 1980

St. Xavier College, Chicago, IL
Director of Community/College Wind Ensemble

Responsibilities included recruitment of community and college musicians to perform in the wind ensemble.

PUBLICATIONS:

Joy of Klez, Tara Publication
Contributing Arranger-2002

The Third Bass Blues, Neil Kjos Music Publisher
Music for Combo -1990

Dorian Blues, Neil Kjos Music Publisher
Music for Combo -1990

Jazz Educator's Journal, "Dave Liebman B Flat Blues",
Transcription and Analysis, Dec/Jan 1984, pp. 56-57.

Jazz Educator's Journal, "Summer Improvisation Camps for Students and Teachers", Apr/May 1983.

The Instrumentalist Magazine, "A Head Start Program for Jazz Ear Training", Feb. 1982.

Downbeat Magazine, "I Concentrate on You", a David Liebman transcription and analysis, January 1983.

Downbeat Magazine, "Spidit", a Michael Brecker
Transcription and analysis, June 1983.

RECORDINGS:

Triton College Faculty Jazz Quartet, 2002
Hora and Blue,(Global Village Music,1993) Maxwell St. Days
Maxwell St. Wedding
You Should Be So Lucky! (Shanachie - 1996)
Old Roots, New World (Shanachie - 2002)

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES:

Chair, Academic Senate, Triton College, 2003-present
Chair, Leadership and Core Values Task Force, Triton College, 2000- present
Chair, Marketing Committee, Triton College, 1998-2003
Lead Teacher, Music Department, Triton College, 1983 -present

ACTIVITIES:

State Treasurer - Illinois Unit National Assn. of Jazz Educators 1983-84

In Service Clinician, Chicago Public Schools, "Teaching Jazz Improvisation", Nov/Dec 1983.

Adjudicator and Clinician for many Chicago area Music contests, including Marching Band, Concert Band, Jazz Band, and Solo/Ensemble contests.

Adjudicator and Clinician, "Greater Southwest Music Contest" Amarillo, Texas, May 1983.

Chairman, Band Division District 1, Illinois Music Educators Association.
Chairman of the South Inter-Conference Association
(S.I.C.A.) Band Directors.

Director District 1 I.M.E.A. Jazz Band Festivals, November 1981 and 1979.

Published a "Handbook of School Songs" for the 27 high schools in S.I.C.A.

Clinician at the Vander Cook College of Music Jazz Workshop, November 1976.

Member - Illinois Institute of Technology Jazz Laboratory.

North Central Association Evaluator

Member - Illinois Music Educators Association.

Member - Music Educators National Conference

Member - National Association of Jazz Educators

Member - Mid-America Competing Band Directors Assn.

Professional free-lance musician performing with various types of groups in the Chicago land area including lead Alto and Jazz Tenor Sax with many Chicago big bands, recording sessions, Jazz/Rock groups and many others.