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 H. David Caffey
Director of the School of Music
Frasier 108
970.351.1924
david.caffey@unco.edu
H. David Caffey is the newly appointed Director of the School of Music at the University of Northern Colorado. Previously, he served as Associate Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences and Professor of Music at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Before arriving at Cal Poly Pomona in 2001 he was a Professor of Music at California State University, Los Angeles for seventeen years, serving as Chair of the Music Department for the last eight. Mr. Caffey’s work as a college professor spans more than 30 years and includes previous appointments at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, Sam Houston State University, and Southern Oregon University.
He is an internationally recognized composer with more than 40 published compositions. He has won awards for musical composition from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and the National Association of Jazz Educators (NAJE). His articles have been published in the Journal of Jazz Studies and the Jazz Education Journal.
Mr. Caffey is also well known as a music educator and currently serves as President of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE). He has served on the Executive Board of IAJE since 1998. He has appeared as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor at jazz festivals, conferences, universities and schools throughout the United States.
Mr. Caffey’s degrees were earned at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed a Certificate in Executive Leadership from Claremont Graduate University’s Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management in 2000. He has also studied at the Eastman School of Music, DePaul University and California State University, Northridge.
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