Bill Dobbins
[:es]Bill Dobbins es profesor de Estudios de Jazz en la Escuela de Música de Eastman en Rochester, Nueva York, donde enseña composición de jazz y cursos de arreglos musicales y dirige a los galardonados, Ensamble de Jazz de Eastman y la Eastman Studio Orchestra.
Como pianista ha tocado con orquestas clásicas y orquesta de cámara bajo la dirección de Pierre Boulez, Lukas Foss, y Louis Lane, y ha tocado y grabado con artistas de jazz como Clark Terry, Al Cohn, Red Mitchell, Phil Woods, Bill Goodwin , Dave Liebman, Kevin Mahogany, Paquito D’Rivera, Peter Erskine y John Goldsby.
Fue ganador del premio en la Competencia Internacional Gaudeamus en 1972 de los intérpretes de música contemporánea, y ha sido ganador de varias subvenciones por composición de jazz del Consejo de las Artes de Ohio y el Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
Programas educativos de Jazz alrededor del mundo han adoptado sus volúmenes transcritos de solos de jazz clásico para piano y libros de jazz como material de estudio en sus cursos.
http://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/dobbins_bill/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhBmdgjr7_I[:en]Bill Dobbins is professor of jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he teaches the jazz composing and arranging courses and directs the award winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Eastman Studio Orchestra. As a pianist, he has performed with orchestra and chamber ensembles under the direction of Louis Lane, Pierre Boulez, Lukas Foss and Frederick Fennell, and he has performed and recorded with such jazz artists as Clark Terry, Al Cohn, Red Mitchell, Phil Woods, Bill Goodwin, Gary Foster, Dave Liebman, John Goldsby and Peter Erskine. He joined the Eastman faculty in 1973, and was instrumental in designing both the graduate and undergraduate curricula for Eastman’s Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media program. Many of his students have been heard in the big bands of Count Basie, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Chuck Mangione, Maria Schneider, and Bob Brookmeyer’s New Art Orchestra.
From 1994 through 2002 Mr. Dobbins was principal director of the WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany, and he headed the jazz studies department at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne from 1998 to 2002. Concert, radio, television and tour projects under his direction with the WDR Big Band included internationally acclaimed soloists Clark Terry, Dave Liebman, Randy Brecker, Gary Bartz, Kevin Mahogany, Art Farmer, Steve Lacy, Paquito D’Rivera, Mark Feldman, Gary Foster, Claire Fischer, Peter Erskine, Nicolas Simion and the Kings Singers. As guest director, he continues to write and direct projects for the WDR Big Band, the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.
Advance Music, Mainz, publishes Mr. Dobbins’ compositions and arrangements for big band, chamber music combinations and solo piano. Jazz education programs worldwide have adopted his volumes of transcriptions of classic jazz piano solos and jazz textbooks for use in their courses.