Dr. Brock is Chair of the Department of Music and Director of Bands at UNF, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, performs in the Florida Saxophone Quartet, and instructs courses in conducting and woodwind performance.

Prior to his present appointment, he was Director of Bands at the University of North Dakota, conductor of the Greater Grand Forks Youth Symphony, the annual UND Regional Honor Band, and the Grand Forks Chamber Ensemble.

Under his direction, the UND Wind Ensemble performed at two North Dakota Music Educators Conferences, the 1999 Ohio Music Education Association/North Central MENC Professional Conference and a joint concert series in Great Britain with the Central Band of the White Russian Army.

In addition to an annual CD project dedicated to recording the best in traditional and contemporary wind literature, Dr. Brock instituted an annual Conducting Symposium which attracted both regional and international participants.

Dr. Brock’s career as a music educator encompasses elementary through university levels. Honored by the Alberta Government for his nationally recognized ensembles and contributions to music education throughout Canada, he was also included in the fifth edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. A frequent guest clinician/conductor throughout the United States and Canada, Dr. Brock has also been a Rothschild Foundation artist in residence for the Israeli Youth Band Teachers and Directors Association in Zichron Ya'acov, Israel. Most recently, he has served as a guest clinician/lecturer for the American School in Japan.

Dr. Brock continues to serve as a Research Associate and author for the instrumental music education series Teaching Music through Performance in Band. The series now serves as a primary text in more than 300 universities in the United States and 20 countries. An active performer as a woodwind specialist and guest conductor, Dr. Brock has performed with internationally recognized organizations within the mediums of chamber music, jazz, band, theater, dance, and orchestra.

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Lynne Arriale, winner of The Great American Jazz Piano Competition, has performed extensively with her trio over the past 15 years. Highlights include performances at the May ’07 Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Diet Coke's Women in Jazz Festival, The Gilmore Piano Festival and other international festivals including Cannes MIDEM, Burghausen, Stuttgart, Spoleto Arts, Cork, Montreux, Sardinia, North Sea, Pori, San Francisco, Ottawa, Rochester, Portugal's Estoril, Zagreb, Norway's Silda Jazz, and Australia's Perth and Brisbane Jazz Festivals. Her trio has toured Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, The Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Italy, England, Ireland and Scotland.

As part of Japan's “100 Golden Fingers” tour, Arriale performed with jazz legends Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern, Junior Mance, Monty Alexander, Roger Kellaway, Ray Bryant and Cedar Walton. Future dates include performances and CD/DVD recordings with icons Benny Golson and Rufus Reid.

The Lynne Arriale Trio's tenth and current release, LIVE, won the German Record Critics Award for its CD/DVD of their 2005 Burghausen Festival performance. Previous releases include Come Together, Arise, which hit #17 on Billboard, #1 on UPI’s Best Jazz CDs ‘03, and along with its predecessor, Inspiration, reached #1 on national jazz radio, #1 in New Yorker Magazine’s Best CDs ’03 and also won that year’s German Record Critics Award. Lynne received the SESAC award for Come Together. The trio’s earlier CDs include Live at Montreux, Melody, A Long Road Home, With Words Unspoken, When You Listen, and The Eyes Have It.

Arriale has been featured in Billboard, Downbeat, JazzTimes, JAZZIZ, the BBC Magazine, the London Times, on the covers of One Way and M Magazines and covered extensively in other international print media. She has performed in concert and on NPR's “Piano Jazz" with Marian McPartland, two “Jazz Set" performances, hosted by Branford Marsalis and Dee Dee Bridgewater and "Weekend Edition." Other media appearances include CNN/FN’ Biz, NPR’s Jazz Piano Christmas - Live from The Kennedy Center, radio and television interviews throughout the US, UK and Europe, including the BBC, Radio France and German National Television. PBS is currently featuring Arriale's trio on "Profile of a Performing Artist," a series that has included Luciano Pavarotti, Diana Krall and Elvis Costello.

Lynne conducts educational clinics and master classes throughout the United States and Europe, has been a faculty member of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshops, the Centrum Port Townsend Jazz Workshop and the Thelonious Monk Institute. She has performed at three IAJE conventions, APAP and CMJ conventions, is an IAJE Resource Team Member in piano pedagogy, a member of the IAJE Sisters in Jazz Advisory Board and has served as an adjudicator and guest artistic director of the Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition. Lynne has adjucated the 2002 Montreux Jazz Festival Piano Competition and more recently, the American Pianists Association Fellowship Awards, The Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Competition and the Great American Jazz Piano Competition.

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Professor Bovenzi currently teaches saxophone and serves as an instructor in music theory, computer music applications, and woodwind methods. He is completing his doctoral studies in Saxophone Performance from the University of Illinois, with a minor in music theory. Professor Bovenzi earned his undergraduate degrees in performance and composition, and a Masters degree in performance.

As a performer, Professor Bovenzi is an active soloist of contemporary music and has performed and premiered numerous works at national meetings of the North American Saxophone Alliance. He has held teaching positions at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida, where he taught saxophone, woodwind techniques, and coached chamber groups. His renowned teachers have included Debra Richtmeyer, Jonathan Helton, Chip McNeil, and Joe Lulloff.

Professor Bovenzi has maintained successful private teaching studios in Florida and Illinois and his students frequently receive recognition at the county and state level.

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Dr. Nick Curry was recently appointed as the cello professor at the University of North Florida. Before this appointment, he was the professor of cello and the cellist in the Rawlins Piano Trio at the University of South Dakota.

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where he studied cello with David Starkweather from the University of Georgia. Nick received his bachelors of music from Vanderbilt, where he studied with Grace Mihi Bahng. While at Vanderbilt, he served as Professor Bahng's teaching assistant, and was the recipient of the Jean Keller Heard Award for Excellence in string playing. Nick then served as Hans Jorgen Jensen's teaching assistant for five years at Northwestern University, where he earned his masters degree and doctoral degree. He also was the teaching assistant to Professor Jensen at the Meadowmount School of Music for four summers.

While at Northwestern, Nick soloed with the Northwestern Philharmonic Orchestra and won the Northwestern Chamber Music Competition. Nick has played in masterclasses for Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirschbaum, Paul Katz, David Geber, the Emerson String Quartet, the Pacifica String Quartet, and the Blair String Quartet. Private studies have also included Harvey Shapiro, David Finckel, and John Kochanowski. Nick has played concerts in Taiwan and all over the US. In April of 2006, he performed as a soloist on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion where he played the King Amati cello. In the summers he performs and teaches at the Triada Music Festival.

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Dr. Clarence Hines has received recognition and awards for several of his compositions and arrangements, including Downbeat awards for Best Jazz Arrangement and Best Performance. His works have been premiered at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic and the International Association for Jazz Education Conference, and can be heard on the UNF Jazz Ensemble I recordings And the Melody Still Lingers On, Second Thoughts, and Things To Come. Dr. Hines’ recent commissions include compositions and arrangements for The Commission Project, the Eastman Jazz Lab Band, and the North Bay Symphony Orchestra. UNC Jazz Press, the largest publisher of advanced music for jazz ensembles, publishes many of Dr. Hines’ compositions.

In addition to performing throughout the United States and Canada, Dr. Hines has also toured Central America and Europe and performed with Slide Hampton, Bob Brookmeyer, Dick Oatts, Richie Cole, Johnny Mathis, Josh Groban, the Temptations, Allen Vizzutti, John Pizzarelli, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Harry James Orchestra. His festival appearances include the North Sea Jazz Festival, East Coast Jazz Festival, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival.

Prior to teaching at UNF, Dr. Hines coached combos and directed the Jazz Lab Band at the Eastman School of Music where he also studied composition and arranging with Bill Dobbins and Dave Rivello. Dr. Hines has also served on the faculty of summer music programs such as the Birch Creek Summer Jazz Session, Eastman Summer Jazz Studies, and the Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp.

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Charlotte Mabrey is the Gerson Yessin Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Florida.

Since 1977, Professor Mabrey has been the principal percussionist of the Jacksonville Symphony. As a result, she has performed as soloist with the JSO on several occasions, including on Milhaud’s Concertino, Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Marimba and Strings, and Concerto for Percussion by Richard Rodney Bennett as a part of the JSO Master Works Series.

Professor Mabrey’s duties at UNF include applied percussion lessons, percussion techniques, the “Live Music in Jacksonville” lecture class, and conducting the UNF Percussion Ensemble, which is extremely active both on and off campus. The group’s performances include area colleges, at guest artists with the JSO, and at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention.

Each year Professor Mabrey presents as entertaining and eclectic recital at UNF titled, “An Evening of 20th Century Music.” These innovative programs include works for solo marimba, multiple percussion, and chamber ensembles, as well as original works with fellow artist, Robert Arleigh White. In 1997, Professor Mabrey established the “Evening of 20th Century Music” Scholarship Program.

In 2001, Professor Mabrey was named Distinguished Professor at UNF.

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From Philadelphia, Professor Scott was the first graduate of the UNF Jazz Program and a former student of Arturo Sandoval.

Beginning his career with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus (Japan), he then became the musical director and cornetist with the world-renowned Dukes of Dixieland for over three years. Professor Scott was featured on two CDs, the PBS special A Salute to Jelly Roll Morton and performed with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall.

Professor Scott has performed with such major artists as Al Hirt, Paquito D’Rivera, Ken Peplowski, Red Hollaway, Eddie Higgins, Jeff Hamilton, and Lynn Seaton. His festival appearances include the Elkhart Jazz Festival, Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, Montreux Jazz Festival, Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Clearwater Jazz Holiday, and at various IAJE Conventions. He performs frequently as a featured artist and as co-leader of the Lisa Kelly & JB Scott Jazz 5tet (Mainstream), the Swamp Dog Jazz Band (Dixieland), and the Florida Jazz Plus (Big Band) music organization.

Professor Scott also presents workshops and popular “Jazz for Kids” community outreach concerts for jazz festivals and elementary to high school children. He is much in demand as a YAMAHA trumpet artist/clinician and adjudicator.

An Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at UNF, Professor Scott teaches trumpet, jazz ensembles, and various jazz related courses. He has co-released three recordings Home, Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now, and Memories of Tomorrow.

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Dr. Smart's career has encompassed a wide range of activities as composer, classical and jazz pianist, and teacher. Always a musician with varied interests, he may be the only pianist to have studied with Yale scholar/keyboardist Ralph Kirkpatrick, the great Cuban virtuoso Jorge Bolet, and the master jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.

A true American pluralist, Dr. Smart composes and improvises a music that reflects an abiding interest in Americana, jazz, and world musics, as well as the Western classical tradition.

A former student at the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne, Germany, Dr. Smart’s compositions have been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Music Educator's National Conference, the Music Teacher's National Association, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His "Concordia" for orchestra won the Concordia jazz composition award, and was premiered at Lincoln Center, New York.

Dr. Smart's compositions are published by Margun Music (Boston), and his work has been recorded on Mastersound Recording (Toronto). He has spent two residencies in Japan, teaching in programs at Osaka University and Kobe College. Dr. Smart has also taught in Indonesia as a "Distinguished Lecturer in Jazz" under the auspices of the Fulbright program.

Dr. Smart has been professor and chair of the music department at the University of Wyoming since 1978, where he received the "President's Award" for outstanding faculty. From 1999-2003, he was the Chairman of the UNF Music Department.

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Dr. Randall Tinnin (Rutgers University, D.M.A., Irene Alm Memorial Prize for excellence in performance and scholarly research, Juilliard, M.M., and the University of North Texas, B.M.) is the Assistant Professor of Trumpet, and the director of Brass Ensemble at the University of North Florida. He has enjoyed performing with some of the world’s premiere conductors, including James DuPriest, Sixten Ehrling, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Zubin Mehta, with whom he also toured the Far East as a member of the Juilliard Orchestra. He has had the honor of appearing at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall. Early music appearances include the American Bach Society, San Francisco Bach Choir, St. Bartholomew’s Chamber Orchestra, and the NYC chapter of the Early Music Foundation. Other New York area engagements include appearances with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Queens Philharmonic, Crescendo Brass, the Gramercy Brass, and the Pro Arte Chorale. He has recorded with New World Records, Naxos Records, and has been featured, with the Signal Brass Quintet, on WQXR-NY radio broadcasts.

An active soloist, Mr. Tinnin has appeared throughout the U.S., including appearances as a guest clinician at Juilliard, as guest soloist at the 2006 International Trumpet Guild Conference, as guest soloist with the Princeton Brass Band at Princeton University, as well as winning the SMU Summer Conservatory Festival Solo Competition, and the 2006 North American Brass Band Association Solo Contest. His commercial experience in NYC includes work in film, as a director and trumpet player, recording studios, and live performances. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Princeton Brass Band, and the Chamber Music Society of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and directed the Festival of Trumpets at the International Trumpet Guild’s Conference at Rowan University in June of 2006.

Dr. Tinnin’s article, “J.S. Bach’s Cantata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen: Historical Observations and Insights for Modern Performance”, was featured in the International Trumpet Guild Journal, fall 2005, and presented with a performance of the aria at the Honolulu International Conference for the Arts and Humanities, in January of 2006. He presented a lecture/recital on his latest paper, “George Frideric Handel’s Let the Bright Seraphim: Thoughts on Modern Performance” at the International Brass Symposium in Great Britain in August of 2006.

An advocate of the arts and their role in society, Dr. Tinnin has served as the director of the HOPE School of the Arts, an arts based mentoring program serving under-served children in Manhattan’s Chinatown and Washington Heights. He continues to offer music master classes in public schools in Jacksonville and throughout Florida. Dr. Tinnin is a member of the International Trumpet Guild, the North American Brass Band Association, the College Music Society, the Florida Music Educator’s Association, and the Florida Bandmasters Association.

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