Christy Dana Lecturer in Musicianship and Theory

107A Morrison Hall
643-5515
Email: cdana@berkeley.edu
Website: christydana.com
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Christy Dana holds two degrees from Indiana University: Master of Music in Theory, and Doctor of Music in Brass Literature and Pedagogy, with minors in jazz studies and music history. An active free-lance trumpeter in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has played with The Women's Philharmonic, the Napa Valley Symphony, The California Symphony, the Vallejo Symphony, the Santa Cruz County Symphony, and the Montery Symphony. Recordings include The Music of Chen Yi ((New Albion Records, 1996), and TheWomen's Philharmonic (Koch Records, 1992). She has toured with the UC Davis Contemporary Music Ensemble, regularly gives chamber music concerts of brass quintet music and jazz, and was a Resident Artist at the Banff Center for the Arts Jazz Workshop in 1997. Dr. Dana is a member is the Montclair Women's Big Band, appeared with the United Women's Orchestra in Germany in July of 2000, and played natural trumpet in the Berkeley Festival of Early Music in June, 2000.

Dr. Dana's doctoral document, An Analysis of Selected Jazz Trumpet Improvisations on Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" Harmonic Progression, 1931-1987, shows the evolution of jazz style on I Got Rhythm changes over a fifty-six year period, on solos by Louis Armstrong through Woody Shaw. Dr. Dana continues to pursue this interest through transcription and analysis of jazz solos.

Dr. Dana teaches Musicianship (50A-B, 51A-B, 152) and Jazz Theory and Musicianship (116) at Berkeley. A master teacher, Dr. Dana delights in teaching such practical musical skills as sight singing, ear training, keyboard harmony, jazz improvisation, and small ensemble performance.