Dr. Pete Madsen
Coordinator of Jazz Studies
Assistant Professor of Trombone/Euphonium
Strauss PAC 224
phone: (402) 554-2297
e-mail: petermadsen@mail.unomaha.eduDr. Madsen's duties at UNO include directing the jazz ensembles and jazz combos, coordinating the UNO Low Brass Day and the UNO Great Plains Jazz Festival, and teaching applied low brass, jazz survey, low brass ensemble, and improvisation. He has performed extensively in jazz, pop, and classical venues, having played with Bill Watrous, Pete Christlieb, Aretha Franklin, Frank Valli, the Omaha Big Band, the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra, the Omaha Jazz Orchestra, the Illinois Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, the Omaha Brass Ensemble, and the Missouri Symphony Society. Dr. Madsen is also in high demand as a guest artist/clinician and has performed and/or adjudicated throughout the United States and in Europe, Japan, and Brazil. As a member of the Continental Trombone Quartet, Dr. Madsen has performed and presented clinics at the Eastern Trombone Workshop, the Midwest Clinic: An International Band and Orchestra Conference, and the International Association for Jazz Education International Conference. The Continental Trombone Quartet has also performed in Spain, Mexico, and Canada. Dr. Madsen plays Getzen trombones and is a Getzen Artist/Clinician.
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