JESSE GREEN

RESUME

QUALIFICATIONS   25+ years experience as a performing jazz pianist, composer, educator, recording artist, studio engineer, arranger and vocal coach.

EDUCATION   East Stroudsburg University 1987-1989

                           Concentration:  Music, Computers, Science

                           East Stroudsburg High School – June 1987

SPECIAL          Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA

   STUDY                       5 Week Summer Program  

PRIVATE           Classical Piano

   STUDY              - Rachel Carr, Piano Instructor Cedar Crest College  Age 7 – 10

                               - John Scully, Pianist, Composer, Band Leader at Tamiment

                                  Resort  Age 10 – 14

                               - Prof. Robert Miller – East Stroudsburg University Music Dept.

                             Jazz

                               - Bob Dorough, Jazz Pianist/Singer, Composer, Recording Artist,

                                  creator of “Multiplication Rock” popular TV series

                               - Urbie Green, Jazz Trombonist, Recording Artist

                               - Phil Woods, Jazz Saxophonist, Recording Artist

AWARDS &       2006 1st Place Winner of Great American Jazz Piano Competition
  HONORS         1998 1st Place Winner of the Cole Porter Fellowship - American Pianists Association Jazz Piano Competition

                             2001 4th Place in the World - Matial Solol Jazz Piano Competition - Paris France.
                             Performed as a member of U.S. Delegation at United States Day at the

                             Millennium Dome United Kingdom presented by the White

                             House Millennium Council

College:                 Scholarship from East Stroudsburg University Music Dept.

                             Awarded Full Scholarship – Berklee College of Music

High School:          National Annual Downbeat Student Award for “best extended

                              Composition and Arrangement” with original composition   “Half & Half”

                              Clark Terry’s Jazz Camp

                              Celebration of the Arts Commission

                              Full Scholarship – Berklee College of Music

HIGH SCHOOL

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

            District Concert Band                                       Regional Concert Band

            All State Jazz Ensemble                                    Fred Waring’s U.S. Chorus

            National Honors Jazz Band                               District Chorus Instrument Ensemble

            John Philip Sousa Memorial Concert Band

                                             (all of the above as a trombonist)

            As junior in high school, became member of East Stroudsburg University

              Jazz Ensemble

            Piano accompanist for District Chorus and high school chorus

            Pianist for COTA CATS – 5 years

            Pit pianist – Shawnee Playhouse, Shawnee-on- Delaware

COLLEGE

            Concert Band – Trombone

            Brass Ensemble – Trombone

            Jazz Ensemble – Piano

            Inter-Collegiate Concert Band – 2 years – Trombone

TEACHING

            Piano, Jazz Piano, Jazz Harmony, Ear Training, Music Theory, Advanced Jazz

              Theory

            Theory classes in Boston……

            Theory classes in DWG…..

            Music at Family of Artists

            Teaching and prepping COTA student members

PRIVATE

            Piano – Ages 16 and older, plus professional musicians

            Jazz, rock, theory, performance   (how many years)

            (Name local schools where you may have demonstrated instruments

            To students or assisted in teaching theory basics, or performed as a clinician in

            Elementary and secondary schools.)

            (What about the ESU Seminar Series?)

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

            1992 Debut CD “LIFT OFF” for Chiaroscuro Records

            1995 Second CD “SEA JOURNEY”

            1997 Pianist on Urbie Green CD “SEA JAM BLUES”

             2002 New CD “SYLVAN TREASURES” produced by Jesse and funded

             by the American Pianist Association (to be released by Chiaroscuro Records)

             Wachovia Jazz Festival, Columbia, SC (video aired on PBS)

             Indianapolis Jazz Festival

             COTA Festival, DWG
             2010 - Recorded new CD with Phil Woods - Songs for COTA

Clubs…

            Birdland, NY (with Bobby Caldwell),  The Jazz Standard (with Freddie Hubbard)

            Deer Head Inn…Hillside Inn Jazz Lounge…River Street Jazz Café….Blues Street

            Jazz Club….Zinno’s NY… Sculler’s, Boston, MA…”Floating Jazz Festival” on

            S.S. Norway….”Majesty of the Seas” Jazz Cruise

Other…          Accompanist for jazz vocalists

                        Film Scoring – NYU

                        Phil Woods and Trio

                        Web Site for Deer Head

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY SKILLS   (Name software packages)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

            Trained COTA CATS for performance at COTA Fest

            Produced Christmas Jazz Concerts at Church of the Mountain

            Performed at 9/11 Benefit – St. Luke’s Church

            Benefit performance for Make a Wish Foundation