Repeatedly named one of the top five jazz programs in the USA
Over 90 Down Beat Awards     

The Jazz Studies Program at the University of Northern Colorado offers professional preparation for future jazz performers, composers, and teachers culminating in the BM in Jazz Studies and MM in Jazz Studies degrees and the Jazz Studies Secondary within the DA program. The program also offers non-jazz and non-music majors with outstanding ensemble and classroom experiences.

The Jazz Studies faculty and staff are experienced professional artist-educators with extensive credits as performers and composer/arrangers. Among our faculty you will find Grammy nominees, National Endowment for the Arts grant recipients, and finalists at international competitions.

Alumni of UNC Jazz Studies are performing, teaching, and succeeding in arts administration positions all over the world. UNC Jazz continues to have an extremely high placement rate for our graduates.

UNC Jazz also produces the annual UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, the largest event of its kind in the nation, and operates UNC Jazz Press, one of the largest jazz publishing companies. Other programs include the Sunset Jazz Artist Series and the UNC Jazz Camp.

Please select from the menus at the left for more information on the program, our faculty and staff, the annual UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, UNC Jazz Press, and the many other aspects of our program.

What’s new at UNC Jazz
• New Jazz Emphasis Degree Programs
• University of Northern Colorado Jazz Camp
• UNC's Sunset Jazz Series
• UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival announces 2008 line up
• Check out new titles from UNC Jazz Press!
• Jazz Teaching Assistant Application 2007 (PDF)
• Friends of Jazz

Follow this link for more information about Jazz Studies and how you can become a part of it. For performance information and for information on specific programs, visit the pages listed to the left.

Contact Information
If you have any questions about UNC Jazz Studies and cannot find the information on this site, please feel free to contact us! Follow this link for information on how to reach us by mail, phone or e-mail.