Joe Gilman
Dr. Gilman is the music director of the Brubeck Institute's Fellowship Program, a full-time professor of music at American River College in Sacramento, and music director of Capital Jazz Project. He has received bachelor's degrees in classical piano and jazz studies at Indiana University, a master's degree in jazz and the contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music, and a doctoral degree in education from the University of Sarasota. Joe has performed professionally with Eddie Harris, Bobby Hutcherson, Woody Shaw, Marlena Shaw, Richie Cole, George Duke, Chris Botti, and Slide Hampton, and has recorded with Joe Henderson, Jeff Watts, and Robert Hurst. Dr. Gilman was named the first Brubeck Scholar at the 2005 Brubeck Festival, and won the 2004 Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Florida. He has also twice been an International Jazz Ambassador through the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and USIA, traveling to West Africa in 1999 and East and Southern Africa in 2000. Dr. Gilman's work with students at the Brubeck Institute has produced several CDs; Brubeck Revisited Vol. 1 and 2 (Sunnyside) and Wonder Revisited Vol. 1 and 2 (Capri), all recorded with Brubeck Institute fellows Joe Sanders and Justin Brown, and the double CD of the 2006-2007 Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet. His work with the 2006-2007 Fellowship students also resulted in four 2007 DownBeat magazine student awards.
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