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Scott Sandvik has been on faculty at Boston’s New England Conservatory since earning his Master’s in Third Stream Studies there in 1989. He teaches classes in aural memory and improvisation for the Jazz Studies and Improvisation Department (undergraduate) and the Contemporary Improvisation Department (graduate). His work in the Contemporary Improvisation Department also includes private studio instruction and ensemble coaching. In addition, he teaches African-American music history courses for the Music History and Musicology Department, including a course on jazz history, one on Afro-U.S. folk music, and one on three jazz composers: Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and George Russell. Finally, Sandvik offers an improvisation course for classical performance majors in the Music Theory Department. Sandvik has also taught guitar and the history of rock-n-roll at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts since 1980.

Putting his own special twist on the Third Stream tradition, he has also produced departmental concerts on the music of Burt Bacharach (2001) and Brian Wilson (2002) and Joni Mitchell (2003).

Click here to visit Scott's faculty page on the New England Conservatory website

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