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 Dana Landry
Head, Jazz Studies Area
Frasier 201
970.351.2256
dana.landry@unco.edu
Dana Landry directs UNC Jazz Lab I and the Northern Colorado Voices, the top vocal jazz group at UNC. Prior to joining UNC, Landry was Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. While at MTSU, he directed MTSU Jazz Ensemble I, the MTSU Singers, jazz combos, and taught improvisation, jazz pedagogy, jazz theory, jazz piano, and jazz history. He was the founding director of the Middle Tennessee Jazz Orchestra, a professional big band in residence at MTSU. Landry established the MTSU Jazz Artist Series and was instrumental in the formation of the Main Street Jazz Festival, one of the largest jazz festivals in the mid-south. In addition, he wrote the curriculum for a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies. Landry, a pianist, has performed with jazz artists such as Milt Jackson, Bela Fleck, Bill Watrous, Billy Pierce, Lew Tabackin, Alan Dawson, Tony Reedus, Ricky Woodard, Jeff Coffin, David Liebman, Marvin Stamm, Slide Hampton, and others. He has made club and festival appearances in Europe, Australia, and throughout the U.S. While living in Tennessee, he served as the principal pianist with the Tennessee Philharmonic and performed several concerts each year with the Nashville Symphony and the Stones River Chamber Players. He has recently completed his first CD as a leader, to be released next year, Featuring Gary Burton on vibraphone. Landry has presented workshops and master classes at colleges and universities throughout the country and has adjudicated high school and college jazz ensembles at festivals in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Virginia, Alabama, and Tennessee. He also serves on the faculty of the Yellowstone Jazz Camp, the Britt Jazz Workshop in Oregon and the Rocky Mountain Vocal Jazz Camp in Colorado.
Landry holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Music Degree from the University of Northern Colorado and was the winner of a 1994 Down Beat Student Music Award as an outstanding soloist.
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