Faculty

• Bill Carrothers
  

  Lecturer of Music - Jazz Piano

  Bill Carrothers has been a professional pianist for 31 years. He has played many venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Village Gate, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Blues Alley, New Morning (Paris), the Audi Jazz Festival in Brussels, the Nevers Jazz Festival (where he shared the bill with Abbey Lincoln), the Montreal Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, and the Marciac Festival in France. In October of 2000, Mr. Carrothers headlined the prestigious Rising Star Tour throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. More recently, Bill headlined a week with his trio at the famed Village Vanguard in New York City as well as two solo performances at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival.

  He has been a leader on twenty recordings, all of which have received critical acclaim. His sideman credits have included some of the greatest names in jazz including Scott Colley, Buddy DeFranco, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Eric Gravatt, Drew Gress, Tim Hagans, Billy Hart, Billy Higgins, Ari Hoenig, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Gary Peacock, Dewey Redman, Charlie Rouse, James Spaulding, Bill Stewart, Ben Street, Ira Sullivan, Toots Thielemans, and Benny Wallace.

  Critical praise for Bill Carrothers:

  "The relentlessly inventive pianist Bill Carrothers' harmonic sophistication has to be heard to be believed."
  - Chicago Tribune

  "The pianist of the 21st century."
  - Liberation (France)

  "One of the most underrated jazz pianists around"
  - Pacific Sun

  "The new monster of the piano."
  - Telerama (France)

  "Carrothers' discs are epistles of taste and derring-do."
  - Village Voice

  "Bill Carrothers is standing on the threshold of being the great hope of the piano."
  - Jazzman Magazine (France)

  "Carrothers is a class act, already endowed with a formidable breadth of experience, and able to fit in with most contemporary jazz situations."
  - Penguin Guide To Jazz (9th edition, 2008)

  Bill Carrothers' personal webpage: http://www.carrothers.com/

• John Daniel
  

  Associate Professor of Music

  John Daniel is the Professor of Trumpet at Lawrence University. He received the Specialist in Music degree from the University of Michigan, Master of Arts in Music from the University of Iowa, and Bachelor of Music from Ball State University. His primary teachers were David Greenhoe, Richard Giangiulio, and Armando Ghitalla. Mr. Daniel previously held tenured positions at Penn State University and Abilene Christian University. While attending the University of Michigan on full scholarship he won the graduate concerto award and was principal trumpet of orchestras in Ann Arbor and Saginaw, Michigan. Mr. Daniel served as principal trumpet with the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra for nine years and has performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, Palm Beach Opera, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Music at Penn's Woods Orchestra, as well as “subbing” for the Broadway revivals of "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Gypsy." He performs as co-principal trumpet in the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and first trumpet in Lawrence Brass. He has played recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, throughout South Korea, and throughout the United States. As a jazz musician he performs with the Lawrence University faculty jazz group and has appeared with Lionel Hampton, Bill Watrous, Wycliff Gordon, Marvin Stamm, Vinnie DiMartino, Phil Woods, Ernie Watts, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra and many others. He conducts and solos annually for the West Texas Rehabilitation Center Telethon Orchestra. Mr. Daniel released “A Calling” in 2004, a jazz CD featuring his own compositions and is featured on a 2006 Mark Masters release, “Karel Husa Trumpet Concertos.” The Husa CD was on the entry list to be nominated for a Grammy Award in the category “best solo with orchestra” and “best classical recording.” He has been a member of North America’s finest brass band, The Brass Band of Battle Creek, since 1993 and plays Schilke trumpets, flugelhorn and cornets exclusively. In April of 2011, Mr. Daniel self published a trumpet method, “Special Studies for Trumpet.” The book represents a lifetime of practicing and teaching the trumpet. It is used by members of major symphony orchestras, leading freelancers in New York and Los Angeles, soloists and college trumpet teachers at major institutions including the Juilliard School. It is available at: johndanieltrumpet.com

  Contact by e-mail: john.daniel@lawrence.edu

• Larry Darling
  

  Director of Recording

  Larry Darling is Director of Recording at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. Supervising a recording crew of 20 student engineers and recording assistants, Mr. Darling oversees the recording and archiving of more than 250 ensemble, student, and faculty music recitals and concerts each academic year. In addition, Mr. Darling has engineered and mastered CDs for the Lawrence Percussion Studio, Jazz Department, Choral Studies Department, and Wind Ensemble. Mr. Darling has also produced many CD projects for Lawrence faculty and alumni.

  Mr. Darling has been involved with Lawrence, first as a student, since 1972, studying trumpet and composition with John Harmon, '57. In 1974, Darling co-founded the jazz group "Matrix" and toured nationally until 1980, appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival in New York and twice at the Monterrey Jazz Festival in California. The group was heavily involved in jazz education, giving numerous concerts and clinics at the high school and college level. During that time, the group recorded four albums for RCA, Warner Brothers, and Pablo Records. In 1980, Darling resettled in Appleton and built his own recording studio, focusing on original music for radio, television, and corporate multimedia presentations. He has also engineered sound for live concerts including the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Dave Brubeck, Bobby McFerrin, Cassandra Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dianne Schuur, Jon Hendricks, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard and Bill Watrous.

  Darling received the 1984 Down Beat award for best studio recording in the college division and has since been recipient of numerous local and regional awards for radio and television music campaigns. As a member of Matrix, Darling has just recorded and produced the group's first recording in 23 years, which is available on Summit Records.

  Contact by e-mail: larry.c.darling@lawrence.edu

• Patty Darling
  

  Lecturer in Music

  Patty completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in 1985. She has composed music for a wide variety of mediums, including works for orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber groups, jazz ensembles, and numerous instrumental soloists.

  Patty has received awards for her compositions and arrangements from Down Beat Magazine, the Presser Foundation, the Eastman School of Music, and the International Association for Jazz Education. While pursuing an advanced composition degree at the University of Minnesota, she served as a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Electronic Music. Patty's recording studio, founded in 1988 with Larry Darling, has been featured in Keyboard Magazine, where Patty's and Larry’s world music compositions are described as “more than a network of fragmentary styles, their music is an integrated whole.” In addition to her role as conductor of the Lawrence University Jazz Band, Patty is the owner of IMPACT Music, where she focuses on composing original soundtracks for broadcast, corporate multimedia events, and the IMPACT Music Library. She has created hundreds of music tracks in a wide variety of styles, and many have been distributed worldwide.

  Contact by e-mail: patricia.a.darling@lawrence.edu

• José Encarnacion
  

  Instructor of Jazz & Improvisational Music and Jazz Performance Coordinator

  José L. Encarnacion leads the jazz improvisation classes, coaches jazz small groups, teaches applied jazz saxophone, and coordinates the jazz performance program at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. He studied saxophone, flute and clarinet at the Free School of Music in San Juan, Puerto Rico, completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he graduated magna cum laude, and received his Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music (including the 2002 Schirmer Prize in Jazz Performance). He previously served as Assistant Professor of Jazz Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music, Instructor of Saxophone, Latin Jazz Performance Workshop, and Youth Saxology for the Eastman Community School, and as Jazz Ensemble Conductor at the Rochester (NY) School of the Arts.

  He has performed jazz, salsa, and Latin music with the Bob Mintzer Big Band, the Dave Rivello Ensemble, Gilberto Santarosa, Roberto Rohena, Bobby Valentin, Domingo Quinones, Israel “Cachao" Lopez, Tito Puente, Danilo Perez, Dave Valentin, Giovanni Hidalgo, Batacumbele, Humberto Ramirez, and David Sanchez. His pops performances include appearances with the Temptations, Dianne Reeves, Natalie Cole, Doc Severinsen, Lou Ralls, New York Voices, Brasilia, Ann Hampton Calloway, and the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, Rochester, and Green Bay.

• Marty Erickson
  

  Lecturer in Music

  Marty was principal/solo tubist with the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., where he served for twenty-six years. He has been the principal Eb Tubist with the Brass Band of Battle Creek for the past twenty years and is a founding member of Millennium Brass Quintet, The Symphonia tuba-euphonium ensemble, and the Tuba-Percussion duo Balance with percussionist Alison Shaw.

  Having served on the faculties of Penn State University and Eastern Michigan University, Mr. Erickson is in his tenth year as Lecturer of Tuba, Euphonium and Chamber music at the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University and performs with the Lawrence Brass faculty brass quintet.

  Mr. Erickson has performed as a soloist/clinician throughout Western Europe, China, Japan, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Bermuda, Cuba and in 48 of the 50 United States. He has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the National Symphony and Annapolis Chamber Orchestras (with performances at Carnegie Hall and the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), the Baltimore Opera Orchestra, the Maryland Symphony, the Washington Masterworks Orchestra, and the Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Gunther Schuller. He has also performed as soloist on concert and recital series programs with the United States Army Band, The U.S. Army Field Band, the U.S. Marine Band and the Army Garrison bands of Oulu and Helsinki, Finland. In April 2008, Mr. Erickson performed four concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, serving as “extra tuba” in performances of Symphony Fantastique.

  He has been a featured jazz and classical performer at six International Tuba-Euphonium Conventions, which will include ITEC 2012 at the Brucknerhaus in Linz, Austria. He was a featured jazz soloist and member of the Balance Duo which performed at the 2007 International Women’s Brass conference at Illinois State University. In May 2011, Marty was the guest jazz performer professor at the Deutsches Tuba Forum International Conference in Hammelburg, Germany, making it his fifth consecutive service for that conference.

  Marty has released three solo jazz CDs; "My Very Good Friend" with pianist John Sheridan; "Smile," with Marvin Stamm and Frank Mantooth; and most recently "You and I" with trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and an all-star rhythm section. He has performed on over fifty recordings of orchestra, concert band, brass band, dixieland jazz, folk, and children's music. His most recent recordings include performances with the Millennium Brass Quintet, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the New Columbian Brass Band on the Dorian label, as well as Grammy-nominated recordings with the Symphonia Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. As a tubist/bassist, Marty has worked with Joe Wilder, Grover Washington, Pete Christlieb, Sammy David Jr., Donny McCaslin, Phil Wilson, Hank Levy, Ray Charles, Louis Bellson, Pearl Bailey, and many more.

  A Past-President of Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (now ITEA-International Tuba and Euphonium Association), Mr. Erickson is currently the chairman of the Creative Award committee for that organization. He is the Adjudicating Chairman for the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival LFIETF). As a founding member of this organization, Mr. Erickson has served 27 years as an Executive Board member.

  Marty is a clinician/design consultant for the Willson tubas distributed by the Getzen Company in the US, and performs on the Willson 3400S Eb Tuba, the 3100S BBb Tubas and the Erickson Signature mouthpieces he helped to design.

  Contact by e-mail: marty.erickson@lawrence.edu

• Nick Keelan
  

  Associate Professor of Music

  Nick Keelan is Associate Professor of Trombone at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Along with teaching trombone he teaches in the Jazz and Improvisational Music Department, directs the Lawrence Trombone Ensemble, and performs with the Lawrence Faculty Jazz Group and the Lawrence Brass, the faculty brass quintet. The Lawrence Trombone Ensemble is currently composed of 29 trombonists and has performed recently with Conrad Herwig, Stuart Dempster, Todd Baldwin (US Army Ceremonial Band), Wycliffe Gordon, and Jim Pugh. Since he joined the faculty in 1985, Keelan has taught trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, chaired instrumental music education, chaired the Woodwind-Brass-Percussion department, and served as conductor of the Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Jazz Workshop. Prior to coming to Lawrence he taught for ten years in the schools of Colorado and Texas. His degrees are from the University of Northern Colorado and Henderson State University in Arkansas. He performs on and is a clinician for Getzen trombones.

  Contact by e-mail: nick.keelan@lawrence.edu

  Nick Keelan's personal webpage: http://www.lawrence.edu/fast/keelann/

• Steve Peplin
  

  Lecturer in Music

  Steve Peplin concurrently serves as adjunct jazz guitar instructor at Lawrence and as Professor of Composition, Major Instrument Guitar I-IV, Harmony and Music Appreciation at Milwaukee Area Technical College. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Berklee College of Music with a B.A. in composition and earned an Associate degree in Occupational Music from MATC.

  In addition to performing with his own group, Steve has performed with a variety of  artists such as Jamie Briewick, Aaron Gardner, John Price, Sam Belton, The Static Chicken, De La Buena, Organica, Como No, David Wake, Art Davis, the Milwaukee Symphony, Doc Severinsen, Maureen McGovern, Howard Levy, Jack Grassel, Melvin Rhyne, Invocation Trio and others.

  Steve has written for Guitar One Magazine and has authored numerous transcription books for Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. He is also a prolific composer of contemporary classical works, jazz compositions, serial music, songs and occasionally, just plain noise!

  Contact by e-mail: steve.peplin@lawrence.edu

• Janet Planet
  

  Lecturer in Music

  Jazziz Magazine hailed her as a "Voice of the New Jazz Culture...amazingly powerful with seemingly limitless expression.” In her career, Ms. Planet has performed with legends such as Jackie and Roy, George Benson, and her mentor Nancy King, and shared the stage with many other accomplished jazz artists including Ellis Marsalis, John Harmon, Gene Bertoncini, and Marian McPartland. Janet is also on the staff of the Tritone Jazz Camp and teaches voice privately as well as conducting clinics. 

  Planet frequently shares with students and others her knowledge of vocal technique, jazz history, performance careers, and the music business, bringing to this experience her perspectives as a woman and artist. A busy concert schedule has taken her to performing arts centers, opera houses, colleges, universities, jazz festivals and jazz clubs across the USA and internationally, with appearances in Europe and Japan where she co-founded the First Fraternity of Musicians in the city of Nagasaki in 2000.

  Janet Planet has been paying her dues and studying the craft of singing for over two decades, steadily building a career that began with a high school talent show performance.  Her 1985 Seabreeze release, “Sweet Thunder” brought Janet to the attention of Steve Allen who wrote, “There are so many dumb and inarticulate singers today. It’s a pleasure to hear someone who knows what singing is all about.” As the past century closed and a new one began, music critics have noted her arrival as an accomplished artist.

  While technique sometimes gets in the way of creative jazz singing, Planet employs her faultless technique to the service of phrase and text.  Words count, and are never shorted, her clear but easy diction exploring surfaces and recesses alike.  Her ability to support the tone and sustain a long line, tells time after time.  And, in every ballad and every samba, the sheer beauty of her tone takes her performance to a level of its own.  Still, she can brandish heat and steel, she brings a special insight and affection to every song.  “Janet Planet is now almost certainly the best of today’s jazz singers, but even more, she'd earn a high standing in any age.” said Erik Eriksson.

  Producer, recording artist, for numerous years Janet has served as a session artist.  She co-founded Stellar Sound Productions in 1995, a recording label that has consistently earned praise from reviewers for both exceptional artistic content and high production values. Among the Stellar releases are artists, jazz singer/piano duo, Nancy King and Steve Christofferson, Cellist, Matt Turner and pianist/composer, John Harmon. Active in all aspects of the recording business, she owns and operates Steel Moon Recording Studio with her husband, saxophonist/composer, Tom Washatka.

  A productive recording artist herself, Janet has 23 recordings in her discography to date. Celebrating her Stellar release “Just Above A Whisper” with guitarist Gene Bertoncini and pianist/composer John Harmon, she performed at Manhattan’s Jazz Standard in 2006. Cadence Magazine said:  “Janet’s a cappella opening on “Close Enough For Love” is all you have to hear to understand how voice and lyric can be heard as one.  On “Like Someone In Love,” she displays uncanny vocal virtuosity in unison passages with Bertoncini’s guitar...an exemplary hour of music.”

  Janet Planet's webpage: http://www.janetplanet.com/

  Contact by e-mail: janet.planet@lawrence.edu

• Dane Richeson

  Professor of Music

  Dane Richeson is Professor of Music at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he has been Director of Percussion Studies for 27 years. Under the direction of Mr. Richeson, the Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble (LUPE) has released two critically acclaimed CDs, and been awarded honors by the Wisconsin Music Educators Association and the Percussive Arts Society.

  Dane Richeson is recognized as one of the most versatile virtuosi in percussion. Throughout the world he has been featured in such diverse roles as solo marimbist, percussionist in contemporary music settings, world percussion specialist and jazz drummer. Performances have been with such diverse artists as Bobby McFerrin, Gordon Stout, Nancy Zeltsman, Gunther Schuller, Geoff Keezer, Joe Lovano, NDR Big Band of Germany, Roscoe Mitchell, Medeski-Martin-Woods, Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine, and Lyle Mays. He regularly performs with the chamber ensembles CUBE (Chicago), The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society (Madison, WI) and has been a featured marimba artist/teacher at several of the Zeltsman Marimba Festivals, the Ivana Bilic Marimba/Percussion Week in Croatia, and the Central Conservatory Chamber Music Festival in Beijing. Moreover, he has performed at festivals such as Ravinia, North Sea and Montreux Jazz Festivals, and Beijing Music Festival.

  Mr. Richeson has performed on numerous recordings including works on Blue Note Records, Origin Records, Klavier, Accurate, Mark, Naxos, A-Records, CRI, Albany, Innova, and A-440. In addition, Mr. Richeson has lived in three distinctly different cultures: Ghana, Africa, studying the music and dance of the Ewe people with master drummer Godwin Agbeli and gyil with Kakraba Lobi; Matanzas, Cuba where he studied with Afro-Cuban drummer Jesús Alfonzo, musical director of Los Muñiquitos de Matanzas and Daniel Alfonso; Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil where he studied the drumming traditions of the State of Bahia with Giba Conceicao and choro/MPB styles with Guello. This research was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts/Arts International and Lawrence University.

  Contact by e-mail: dane.m.richeson@lawrence.edu

• Fred Sturm
  

  Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music

  Fred Sturm is the Director of Jazz and Improvisational Music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. He serves as guest conductor/composer/arranger for professional jazz ensembles and radio orchestras in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland and Norway; as director of university jazz ensembles and high school all-state jazz bands throughout the U.S.; as clinician at national educational conferences and festivals; and as composer-in-residence for school and university music programs.

  Fred's compositions and arrangements have been performed by jazz ensembles, symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, and chamber groups worldwide, featuring renowned artists Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Gary Burton, Arild Andersen, and John Scofield. His works are published by Lorenz Heritage JazzWorks, Universal Edition, Sierra Music Publications, Kendor, Warner Brothers/Alfred Music, Advance Music, Ensemble Publications, Really Good Music, and UNC Jazz Press, have been issued on Concord Jazz, RCA, hrMedia, and Warner Brothers Records, and received a 1997 Grammy Award nomination. His 9 "inning" baseball symphony Forever Spring is currently touring American orchestras with The Baseball Music Project under the auspices of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Migrations: One World, Many Musics, Fred’s concert suite featuring indigenous music from 21 countries, was premiered by vocalist Bobby McFerrin and the NDR Big Band in Germany in 2007 and toured Europe the following summer.

  Fred was the 2003 recipient of the ASCAP/IAJE Commission In Honor of Quincy Jones, a prize granted annually to one established jazz composer of international prominence. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, and the Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund. His texts, Changes Over Time: The Evolution of Jazz Arranging, Kenny Wheeler: Collected Works on ECM, and Maria Schneider: Evanescence are published by Advance Music (Germany) and Universal Edition (Vienna), and his teaching concept titled All Ears: Improvisation, Aural Training, and the Creative Process is widely used by school music educators.

  Fred served as Professor and Chair of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music in New York from 1991 to 2002, where he directed the internationally acclaimed Eastman Jazz Ensemble, conducted the 70-piece Eastman Studio Orchestra, and coordinated the Eastman jazz composition and arranging program. During his university teaching career, Downbeat Magazine has cited his ensembles as the finest in the United States and Canada nine times. He studied at Lawrence, Eastman, and the University of North Texas, and was a founding member of the jazz nonet Matrix.  He received the University Award for Excellence in Teaching at Lawrence in 2005 and the 2010 Downbeat Jazz Education Achievement Award.

  Fred Sturm's personal webpage: http://www.fredsturm.com

  Mizar 5 Web Magazine Interview

  Contact by e-mail: fred.sturm@lawrence.edu

• Matt Turner
  

  Lecturer of Music

  Matt Turner is widely regarded as one of the world's leading improvising cellists. Equally skilled as a pianist, Turner performs in a myriad of styles and has shared the stage in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia with Cape Breton fiddle sensation Natalie MacMaster, avant-garde musicians Marilyn Crispell, Peter Kowald, Guillermo Gregorio, Scott Fields, and John Butcher, as well as country musician Wanda Vick, singer-songwriter LJ Booth, and jazz musician Bobby McFerrin to name a few. He appears on over 100 recordings on Sketch/Harmonia Mundi, Illusions, Music and Arts, Accurate, Polyvinyl, Cadence Jazz and others, recording with jazz violinist Randy Sabien, goth vocalist/pianist Jo Gabriel, singer/songwriters Mark Croft and Tret Fure, punk artist Kyle Fischer, Kitty Brazelton's chamber rockestra Dadadah, alt-country band Heller Mason, and with the Pointless Orchestra.

  Turner completed his undergraduate studies at Lawrence University and his Master of Music degree in Third Stream Studies (now the Contemporary Improvisation program) at the New Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Dave Holland, Geri Allen and Joe Maneri, and where he was the recipient of a Distinction in Perfomance Award.

  As a leader, Turner's recordings appear on Illusions, Stellar, O.O. Discs, Asian Improv, Penumbra, Fever Pitch, Geode, Tautology and Meniscus Records. Turner is a Yamaha Performing Artist and currently performs and records with Bill Carrothers' Armistice 1918 ensemble and with the Fantastic Merlins.

  Contact by e-mail: Matthew L. Turner

• Mark Urness
  

  Associate Professor of Music

  Mark Urness is a versatile bassist, composer, and educator. His diverse performance experience encompasses orchestral, chamber, jazz, salsa, and solo playing. He has served as Principal Bassist for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre and for five seasons was Principal Bassist for the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra. From 1999-2001 he freelanced in New York City, where he played with Adam Nussbaum, Lew Soloff, Eric Rasmussen, and Curtis Fowlkes, among others. He was awarded First Prize in the International Society of Bassists Jazz Competition, and performed with Bill Mays and Tim Froncek at the 2001 ISB Convention.

  His compositions appear on several recordings, including the Bob Washut Trio's Songbook, Triptych's Play Here, and the University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band I's Northern Exposure. Recent recordings include Mafficked Simulacrum with the University of Iowa's jazz faculty group, oftEnsemble; a new album with the salsa band Orquesta Alto Maiz; and a project with Iowa City's eclectic jazz quartet, OddBar.

  Prior to his appointment to the faculty of Lawrence University, Mr. Urness taught at the University of Iowa, Coe College, and the University of Northern Iowa. He received a Master of Music in double bass performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Bachelor of Arts in music from the University of Northern Iowa, and studied music and computer science at the University of Iowa.

  Contact by e-mail: mark.urness@lawrence.edu

Jazz Groups

• Jazz Ensemble
• Jazz Band
• Jazz Workshop
• Hybrid Ensemble

Degree Information

• For Performance Majors
• For Music Education Majors
• For Theory/Comp Majors

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