Faculty (tentative)

Mark Ammons
Mark performs regularly with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Chamber Orchestra, Ballet West Orchestra, Orchestra at Temple Square, and the Utah Premiere Brass; he is also a free lance jazz musician. He has been a featured soloist throughout the United States ... (read more here)

David Brown
David came to Brigham Young University in 1998 as a trumpet specialist with the primary responsibility of teaching applied trumpet and performing with Brassworks, the faculty brass quintet. David Brown also teaches trumpet pedagogy, trumpet literature, jazz history ... (read more here)

Steve Call
Steve was principal tuba with Utah Premiere Brass and the Wintergreen Summer Festival Orchestra in Virginia. He has performed with a variety of ensembles in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Canada, and Italy ... (read more here)

Eric Hansen
As a soloist, Eric has performed with Concert Artists of Baltimore, BYU Faculty Chamber Players, CBCRadio, Seagram's Crown Royal Recital, the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society, Groundswell, Musick Barock Ensemble, the du Maurier Arts New Music Festival, the Bravo Arts Channel, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Jay Lawrence
As a celebrated musician, Jay has enjoyed a diverse career as a performing and recording artist, composer, arranger, clinician, educator, and adjudicator. He has been voted the best drummer in Utah. Jay has numerous sound-track credits, ranging from movies, trailers, television, and jingles to theme parks and Broadway musicals ... (read more here)

Steve Lindeman
With a bachelor of music in jazz studies, piano concentration from Indiana University; a master of arts in music theory from Queens College, CUNY; and a PhD in theory and history from Rutgers University, Steve has a varied background. He has published a number of scholarly writings concerned with Felix Mendelssohn, the 19th Piano Concerto, and jazz. He is also active as a jazz composer and pianist ... (read more here)

Ray Smith
An excellent performer and an excellent teacher, Ray is the director of jazz studies and professor of saxophone here at BYU. His jazz big band, Synthesis, has received national and international recognition by winning many jazz festival competitions ... (read more here)

You can read an article about Ray Smith, published in the fall 2007 BYU Magazine by clicking here.

More information will be posted as the information becomes available.