2016 FESTIVAL ADJUDICATORS Mike Dana Fresno City College Guitarist and composer Mike Dana has been Director of Jazz Studies at Fresno City College since 1990. At FCC, he directs the Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, co-directs the Jazz Singers, and teaches jazz theory, arranging, history, and advanced improvisation. Mike studied with jazz guitar legend Joe Pass, and at the Berklee College of Music. Performance credits include Cannonball Adderley, Gary Burton, Clark Terry, Bob Mintzer, Bobby Shew, Ernie Watts, Arturo Sandoval, Ingrid Jensen, and many others. He also performs regularly with his own quartet, and with the 19-piece Jazz Composers Orchestra, which he founded in 2004. Mike’s compositions for jazz ensemble are widely performed across the United States, and are published by Alfred/Belwin, Heritage/Lorenz, Kendor, UNC Jazz Press, and Walrus. Mike is also very active as an adjudicator at jazz festivals throughout the western US, and as a guest conductor of honors ensembles (most recently the All Alaska Jazz Ensemble.) He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation (on the teaching of jazz improvisation in secondary schools) at Boston University. Dr. John Daversa University of Miami John Daversa is a versatile and internationally respected performer (Trumpet/EVI), composer, arranger, producer, bandleader, educator, and BFM Jazz recording artist. He is a winner of the Herb Alpert Award, David Joel Miller Award, the National Trumpet Competition, the ITG Jazz Soloist Competition, and was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Daversa’s celebrated and distinctive musical perspective has been a passport to performances on world stages such as The Today Show, Late Nite with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Live 8 (Berlin), Hamburg Music Festival, Java Jazz Festival (Jakarta), Monterey Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Montreux Festival, and the Playboy Jazz Festival. He has also had the opportunity to perform or record with artists such as Fiona Apple, Michael Bublé, Dori Caymi, Andraé Crouch, Sheryl Crow, Herbie Hancock, Bob Mintzer Big Band, and The Yellowjackets. In 1996, Daversa founded the John Daversa Progressive Big Band, which is one of the leading forces of modern jazz today. In 2011, the band released its first studio album, Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album, to critical acclaim winning Best in Show and Awards of Excellence in Creativity/Originality and Production in The Global Music Awards. “Daversa's fearless exploration...takes him off the beaten path, as he creates bold and ballsy big band music for the modern epoch.” – AllAboutJazz.com Michael Galisatus College of San Mateo Michael Galisatus is the Director of Bands at the College of San Mateo. Prior to his appointment at the college, Michael taught at South San Francisco, El Camino, and Aragon High Schools from 1980 to 2005, where he built award-winning programs. Michael served as CMEA Bay Section president, and currently holds the office of Jazz Representative for the California Music Educator’s Association, and CMEA representative for CAJ. Michael has been the recipient of various teaching honors including the Peninsula Arts Council Arts Educator of the Year for 2007, the Otter Distributors 2004 Jazz Educator Award for the state of California, and the Gil Freitas Memorial Award for music education. He is in demand as an adjudicator and guest conductor throughout California As a freelance trumpeter in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael has recorded with Pete Escovedo and Queen Ida, and has performed with a variety of artists, including Frankie Valli, Kenny Loggins, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, Louis Bellson, Johnny Mathis, Mel Torme, The Temptations, Michael Feinstein and a host of others.
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2016 FESTIVAL ADJUDICATORS Mike Dana Fresno City College Guitarist and composer Mike Dana has been Director of Jazz Studies at Fresno City College since 1990. At FCC, he directs the Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, co-directs the Jazz Singers, and teaches jazz theory, arranging, history, and advanced improvisation. Mike studied with jazz guitar legend Joe Pass, and at the Berklee College of Music. Performance credits include Cannonball Adderley, Gary Burton, Clark Terry, Bob Mintzer, Bobby Shew, Ernie Watts, Arturo Sandoval, Ingrid Jensen, and many
others. He also performs regularly with his own quartet, and with the 19-piece Jazz Composers Orchestra, which he founded in 2004. Mike’s compositions for jazz ensemble are widely performed across the United States, and are published by Alfred/Belwin, Heritage/Lorenz, Kendor, UNC Jazz Press, and Walrus. Mike is also very active as an adjudicator at jazz festivals throughout the western US, and as a guest conductor of honors ensembles (most recently the All Alaska Jazz Ensemble.) He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation (on the teaching of jazz improvisation in secondary schools) at Boston University.
Dr. John Daversa University of Miami John Daversa is a versatile and internationally respected performer (Trumpet/EVI), composer, arranger, producer, bandleader, educator, and BFM Jazz recording artist. He is a winner of the Herb Alpert Award, David Joel Miller Award, the National Trumpet Competition, the ITG Jazz Soloist Competition, and was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Daversa’s celebrated and distinctive musical perspective has been a passport to performances on world stages such as The Today Show, Late Nite with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Live 8 (Berlin), Hamburg Music Festival, Java Jazz Festival (Jakarta), Monterey Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Montreux Festival, and the Playboy Jazz Festival. He has also had the opportunity to perform or record with artists such as Fiona Apple, Michael Bublé, Dori
Caymi, Andraé Crouch, Sheryl Crow, Herbie Hancock, Bob Mintzer Big Band, and The Yellowjackets. In 1996, Daversa founded the John Daversa Progressive Big Band, which is one of the leading forces of modern jazz today. In 2011, the band released its first studio album, Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album, to critical acclaim winning Best in Show and Awards of Excellence in Creativity/Originality and Production in The Global Music Awards. “Daversa's fearless exploration...takes him off the beaten path, as he creates bold and ballsy big band music for the modern epoch.” – AllAboutJazz.com
Michael Galisatus College of San Mateo Michael Galisatus is the Director of Bands at the College of San Mateo. Prior to his appointment at the college, Michael taught at South San Francisco, El Camino, and Aragon High Schools from 1980 to 2005, where he built award-winning programs. Michael served as CMEA Bay Section president, and currently holds the office of Jazz Representative for the California Music Educator’s Association, and CMEA representative for CAJ. Michael has been the recipient of various teaching honors including the Peninsula Arts Council Arts Educator of the Year for 2007, the Otter Distributors 2004 Jazz Educator Award for the state of California, and the Gil Freitas Memorial Award for music education. He is in demand as an adjudicator and guest conductor throughout California As a freelance trumpeter in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael
has recorded with Pete Escovedo and Queen Ida, and has performed with a variety of artists, including Frankie Valli, Kenny Loggins, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, Louis Bellson, Johnny Mathis, Mel Torme, The Temptations, Michael Feinstein and a host of others.
Dr. James Miley Willamette University Composer/Pianist James Miley, recipient of the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, is currently Associate Professor of Music at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he directs the Willamette Jazz Collective and teaches improvisation, composition, jazz history, music technology, and music theory. A versatile musician comfortable in both the jazz and classical idioms, he has composed for a variety of chamber and choral ensembles in addition to his work in jazz. He has appeared as a guest composer/performer at a variety of festivals and universities over the past decade, including the University of Michigan, University of Miami, University of Idaho, University of Montana, California State University Northridge, Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory, the Nevada and New Mexico All State Honor Jazz Bands, the Jazzmandu and Sundance Festivals in
Nepal, and the Monterey, UNC/Greeley, and Reno Jazz Festivals. His catalog of compositions for large jazz ensemble is published by E-Jazzlines and UNC Jazz Press, and his arrangements of popular music for large jazz ensemble are available through Sierra Music’s Radiohead Jazz Project series. He serves as keyboardist and principal composer with the jazz collective, Bug, whose most recent album The Optimist was released this past fall. Dr. Miley holds degrees from Occidental College, the University of Arizona, and the University of Oregon, with additional graduate work in jazz improvisation and composition at California Institute of the arts.
Dr. Steve Roach Sacramento State University Dr. Steve Roach has been the Director of Jazz Studies at Sacramento State since 2001. He has also served as Director of Jazz Studies at Baylor University and has held teaching positions at the University of Northern Colorado and Northern Illinois University. Steve's duties at Sacramento State include directing large jazz ensembles, teaching jazz trumpet, administering the jazz studies degree program, and teaching courses in jazz history. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance from Indiana University, a Master of Music degree in trumpet performance from Northern Illinois University, and a Doctor of Arts degree in trumpet and jazz pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado. Professional appearances as an assisting artist include studio and live sessions with such jazz & pop musicians as Tito Puente, Dave Pietro, Louis Bellson, Billy Drummond, Alan Ferber, Conrad Herwig, Lou Rawls, Jon Tchicai, Ben Vereen, Melissa Manchester, Toni Tennille, Roberta Flack, Rosemary Clooney, Jeffrey Osbourne, Carl Fontana, Paquito D'Rivera,
The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras, and others. Steve also works as a clinician and adjudicator for jazz festivals and various workshops nationwide and has directed several California high school honor jazz ensembles including the San Mateo Honor Jazz Band, the Fresno-Madera County Honor Jazz Band, the Solono County High School Honor Jazz Ensemble, the Tulare Kings County Honor Jazz Band and the Southern California Band & Orchestra Association Honor Jazz Band. Steve maintains an active schedule as a freelance artist and is a member of the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra, a group in which he co-founded.
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