Tritone Jazz Camp at Nazareth University

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Tentative 2024 Faculty

Jim Doser (sax and reeds) Is co-founder of Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps and co-architect (with the late Fred Sturm) of much of the curriculum that has led to our overwhelming success. Jim holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the legendary Eastman School of Music and is a first-call multi-instrumentalist in Rochester. He is also a well-respected and legendary music educator with multi-decade tenure with both the Penfield, NY school district and the Eastman School. Jim left Tritone in 2015 because his new position as director of Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership no longer left his summers open. Now retired from that position, he is looking forward to working with Tritone campers once again in 2024 and we’re delighted to have him.

Clay Jenkins (trumpet) is Professor of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music. He can be heard on three live albums with the Stan Kenton Band, Artistry in Symphonic Jazz, A Time for Love, and The Lost Concerts, Vols. I & II. He has also recorded with Milt Jackson, the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Diana Krall, Billy Harper, Lyle Mays, Peter Erskine, Harold Danko, Rufus Reid, Ray Brown, Joe La Barbera, Kurt Elling, Dr. John, Bob Sheppard, Jim Widner, John La Barbera, Pat La Barbera, Eric Reed, Gary Hobbs, Rich Perry, Bill Perkins, Bill Cunliffe, Gary Anderson, Billy Childs, Steve Houghton, Lennie Niehaus, Ernestine Anderson, Karrin Allyson, and Miki Coltrane; and has recorded three albums as a leader--Rings, Give and Gather, Yellow Flowers After, Azure Eyes, and Matters of Time.

Mark Kellogg (trombone). Mark is the consummate musician/educator: Chair of the Chamber Music Department; Associate Professor of Euphonium, Trombone, and Brass Chamber Music; Coordinator, Brass Chamber Music Program; and Faculty member of the Jazz and Contemporary Media Department of the Eastman School of Music. For 22 years, he anchored the trombone section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. His jazz credentials include performances with Clark Terry, Chris Vadala, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Daniels, and Mel Tormé. Recent jazz and commercial recordings include collaborations with Jeff Tyzik, Gene Bertoncini, Allen Vizzutti, Steve Gadd, and Gap Mangione. His newly released jazz recording with Eastman School faculty colleague pianist Tony Caramia, Upstate Standards, celebrates the music of upstate New York composers Harold Arlen, Alec Wilder, and Jimmy Van Heusen.

Amy London (voice) is known and loved in New York City jazz and Broadway circles for her effortless sound, impeccable musicianship and depth of emotion. Her most recent CD on Motema, The Royal Bopsters Project, features a vocal jazz quartet with Ms London as leader and soprano; Holli Ross, swinging alto; the legendary Darmon Meader, tenor; and Dylan Pramuk, bass. Her two previous critically acclaimed CD’s on Motema as a leader, ‘Let’s Fly’ and ‘When I Look In Your Eyes’ feature some of the world’s top jazz musicians, and have led her to engagements in Russia, Italy, Turkey, France, Brazil, England, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Canada, as well as cities across the US. Amy London has been teaching voice since 1984. She has been faculty at New School University’s Jazz BFA program since 1992, and is one of the principal architects of the highly successful vocal department there. She has taught at City College, CUNY, NYC, and has led vocal jazz workshops nationally and internationally, for the IAJE, JEN and a variety of summer jazz camps.

Darmon Meader (voice) Recognized in both the jazz vocal and instrumental worlds, Darmon Meader is a highly respected vocalist, arranger and saxophonist who has achieved international recognition as the founder, musical director, chief arranger, composer, producer, saxophonist, and vocalist with New York Voices. In 2015, Darmon joined forces with Amy London, Holli Ross and Dylan Pramuk on the critically acclaimed “Royal Bopsters Project” CD (Motéma), which is a nod to the vocalese tradition. The recording features legendary vocalists Mark Murphy, Annie Ross, Jon Hendricks, Sheila Jordan and Bob Dorough, and includes a number of Darmon’s arrangements. Allen Morrison (Downbeat) wrote: “Extraordinary…The Royal Bopsters Project vividly makes the case for a revival of the art of vocalese.”

Marco Panascia (bass) Marco has played with jazz luminaries such as Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Kevin Mahogany, Eric Reed, Dado Moroni, Alvin Queen, Francesco Cafiso, Peter Bernstein and Tamir Hendelman, and he is also known for his tenure with young jazz piano sensation Eldar Djangirov. In the pop arena, he has also performed with Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Jennifer Holliday and Brian McKnight, and has toured in Canada and the United States with the award-winning Italian operatic pop trio, Il Volo. Marco holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the New School and often teaches at clinics and masterclasses in the United States and abroad. Aside from being featured as a sideman on more than 50 recordings, his first album as a leader, "Bass Duo Live,” an unedited live concert with Dario Deidda, was released in 2014.

Kristen Shiner-McGuire (Rhythming, vibes and general fun). Kristen Shiner McGuire is a Full Professor in Professional Practice and the Coordinator of Percussion Studies at Nazareth College, where she has taught since 1984 and was the recipient of the 1998 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois and a Masters degree in Percussion Performance and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Kristen’s performing talents run the gamut from jazz singer and drummer, solo marimbist, orchestral percussionist and timpanist, to contemporary chamber musician. She has performed with Clark Terry, Johnnie Mathis, Mickey Rooney, Josh Groban, Ben Folds, and the Pan Gaia Steel Band, among others. Currently she performs with the Rita Collective, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, RPO Marimba Band and her own jazz quartet. Her solos album, "Kristen Sings and Plays and Rings," is available on iTunes and CD Baby.

Bob Sneider (guitar) Bob is Associate Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the Eastman School of Music. Before joining the Eastman faculty, he toured for several years with two-time Grammy Award winner Chuck Mangione. He has also performed, toured, or recorded with Nat Adderley, Joe Locke, Don Menza, Lou Donaldson, Joey Defrancesco, Pat Bianchi, Gary Versace, Pat Labarbara, Joe Locke, Grant Stewart, Ken Peplowski, Gerry Niewood, Chris Potter, Roy McCurdy, Eric Alexander, David Hazeltine, Frank Strazzerri, Jon Faddis, and Keeter Betts. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester where he studied with Bill Dobbins and Ramon Ricker. He has released seven CDs as leader or co-leader.

Dariusz Terefenko (piano) is Associate Professor at the prestigious Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY, USA) where he holds a joint appointment in two departments: Jazz and Contemporary Media, and Music Theory. He is also the Coordinator for the Advanced Certificate in the Art of Improvisation. His books Jazz Theory – From Basic to Advanced Study (Routledge, 2017), Jazz Theory Workbook(Routledge, 2019), Jazz Voicings for Piano – The Complete Linear Approach, Volumes I and II (Advance Music, 2018) have been adopted as a textbook at music universities and colleges around the world. Jazz Theory – From Basic to Advanced Study and Jazz Theory Workbook have been translated into Polish and Chinese and adopted as a college course pack. Terefenko is an active performer and clinician giving piano recitals and masterclasses in USA, Canada, Europe, China, and Brazil. His recordings Evidence and Crossing Paths feature a mixture of standard tunes and original compositions.

Rich Thompson (drums). Rich has been an in-demand, top-call drummer in Rochester for the past 25 years and is currently an Associate Professor at the Eastman School of Music. He has toured, performed, and recorded with the “who’s who” of jazz greats including pianist James Williams, The Count Basie Orchestra, Tito Puente, Frank Foster, The Byron Stripling Quartet, saxophonist Rich Perry, the Bill Dobbins Trio, Harold Danko, Marion McPartland, Trio East (which includes Clay Jenkins and Jeff Campbell), trumpeter Snooky Young, Gene Bertoncini, Carl Fontana, Phil Woods, Joe Pass, and a host of others too numerous to mention. The Boston Globe once cited Rich as “the drummer who drove the Basie sound” when he appeared with them at the Boston Jazz and Blues Festival.

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