Congratulations to Downbeat 2008 Student Music Award Winner Dylan Johnson for Outstanding Performance in Studio Engineering for his recording of the Contemporary Combo
Congratulations to LJO Downbeat 2007 Student Music Award Winners: Marc Sabatella for Best Big Band Arrangement, Yvonne Underhill for Best Jazz Vocalist, and Andrew Sowell for Best Studio Jazz Recording.
The Lamont Jazz Orchestra
The Lamont Jazz Orchestra is the flagship large ensemble of the Jazz Studies and Commercial Music Program at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. Performing ensembles are open by audition to the entire DU student body and include three big bands, eleven combos, a studio orchestra, and The Climb - the jazz faculty. These ensembles present over forty concerts per year on the DU campus and other locations. The award-winning program offers a flexible Bachelors degree in Jazz Studies and Commercial Music with emphasis in performance, composition, and arranging, and a Bachelor of Music with an concentration in Audio Production, and Master of Music degrees with an emphasis in Jazz Studies. For more information and to request audition materials please visit our web site at www.du.edu/lamont or call 303.871.6973.
Jazz Studies and Commercial Music Faculty
Malcolm Lynn Baker - Program Director, Lamont Jazz Orchestra, Hard Bop Combo, Free Improvisation Combo, Jazz Improvisation and Composition, and Jazz and Commercial Music History and Repertoire; Art Bouton - Saxophone; Alan Hood - Trumpet, Lamont Jazz Ensemble; Tom Ball - Trombone; Alan Joseph - Guitar, Bebop Combo; Eric Gunnison - Piano, Contemporary Combo and Advanced Jazz Improvisation and Composition; Ken Walker - Bass, Standards, Latin Jazz, and Modal Combos; Donna Wickham - Voice, Vocal Jazz and Vocal Repertoire Combos; David Hanson - Jazz and Commercial Music Orchestration and Arranging; Marc Sabatella - Jazz Theory; Michael Schulze - Audio Production
