Instructor in Music
Pianist/composer/educator Lee Tomboulian teaches jazz improvisation, jazz
small group performance practice, and applied jazz piano. He has performed
on piano, accordion, and keyboards with noted jazz artists Airto, Nat Adderley,
Doc Cheatham, Larry Coryell, Jack DeJohnette, Herb Ellis, Eddie Harris, Marc
Johnson, Sheila Jordan, Dick Oatts, Bucky Pizzarelli, Pharoah Sanders, and
Steve Swallow. He was also a member of the world-famous University of North
Texas One O'Clock Lab Band and is a founding member of the Brazilian and Uruguayan
ensemble Circo.
Mr. Tomboulian earned his B.A. in composition with a minor in Theater Arts
from the University of Arkansas, his M.M. in Jazz Studies (piano performance)
at the University of North Texas, and studied privately with ECM giant Art
Lande and Giorgio Della Terza at the Naropa Institute. He also studied African-American
gospel music at St. Andrew Church of God in Christ in Texas.
Tomboulian previously served on the faculties at Texas Wesleyan University,
Cedar Valley Community College, the University of Dallas, and North Central
Texas College. He has also worked as an instructor at the University of Texas
at Arlington Jazz Camp, the University of North Texas Jazz Combo Camp, and
served as a UNT graduate teaching fellow for two years.
