Matt Leder is currently a Doctoral candidate at the University of Northern Colorado. He holds a MM in Jazz Studies from the University of New Orleans (former “ Louis Armstrong Quintet” member) and a BM in Jazz Performance from East Carolina University. Mr. Leder served 8.5 years as an Active Duty Navy Musician and is currently a member of the ANG Music Program. He has studied with such greats as Ellis Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Irvin Mayfield, Clyde Kerr, and many others. His performance experience ranges from professional big bands to various brass quintets, concert bands, rock bands, jazz combos, and dixieland groups. An avid educator, he has appeared as a guest artist and clinician throughout the United States. Mr. Leder has held Adjunct Faculty positions at Brown University, CCRI, UC Denver, SPCC, and St. George’s School. He is also an active member of the Jazz Educator’s Network, College Music Society, MENC, and the International Trumpet Guild.
Justin Doute’s musical ambition has always been to pursue every single kind of genre in order to perform in any given situation from Orchestral Performance to Jazz to Ancient Drumming to Rock/Pop to Broadway Performance. He is a native Coloradoan who attended Denver School of the Arts awarded with “Outstanding Musicianship Award” in 2007. Justin attended The Boston Conservatory and now attends The Manhattan School of Music with scholarship as a potential Bachelor of Music with expected graduation 2013.
Justin is interested in single kind of music especially music related to marimba peformance. His awards include: Recent winner of the Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition at MSM, First Prize winner in The Denver Concert Band Youth Concerto Competition, winner of The Aspen School of Music Solo Percussion Competition, 2nd Prize of Aurora Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Finalist in The Denver Young Artist Orchestra Concerto Competition and Placement in Philharmonic Society of Arlington Competition in Boston. Along with the competitive world, Justin continues to expand and promote percussion literature. He strives to keep preserving and continuing the art of marimba performance with many collaborative projects with composers and fellow chamber musicians. Justin has many compositions for solo marimba, chamber music with marimba along a marimba concerto.
Other than marimba performance Justin has attended: Zeltsman Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Julliard Percussion Seminar, The National Wind Ensemble performing in Carnegie Hall and Aspen Music Festival and School. He has performed with groups of professional and regional status such as: Kenny Werner Project, Denver Young Artist Orchestra, Various Church band and Orchestras in NYC, Joshua Feldman Chamber Orchestra NYC, and the New York City Chamber Players. Justin has also upheld jazz and rock music as being a huge inspiration. He performs jazz vibraphone in a group founded by him called “Juxtaposition” and spent time performing in street fairs as xylophone soloist and manager to a mallet percussion ragtime band called “Augmented Fifth”.
Justin is currently training to enter a series of marimba competitions around the world. He is currently studying Classical and Jazz music under the direction of: Eric Charlston, Chris Lamb, Claire Heldrich, Duncan Patton, She-e Wu and Nancy Zeltsman.
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Ozie C. Cargile II discovered his love for music and composition about the age of 11 years old, teaching himself to play piano. He accredits his music teachers and composer John Williams with being the greatest inspirations to him during the most formable years of his life. Cargile advanced his study of composition at theUniversity of Michigan. In 2003, he received a Bachelor of Composition from the School of Music having studied with Michael Daugherty, Erick Santos, Susan Botti, and Bright Sheng. Cargile’s compositional library includes an eclectic repertoire of solo, ensemble and orchestral works. His music has been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Psalm 150 Symphony, the Black History Festival Orchestra, and the Lamont Symphony in Boulder, Colorado. When he’s not creating music, Cargile works as a private piano instructor in Royal Oak, Michigan.
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