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Kevin Whalen

1. Managing Producer of UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival
   Instructor of Music
   Trumpet
   Frasier 58
   970-351-2394
   kevin.whalen@unco.edu

Kevin Whalen is the Managing Producer of the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival and Instructor of Jazz Trumpet at the University of Northern Colorado. Whalen’s duties with the festival, the largest of its kind in the United States, include managing the year-round operations of the festival, writing grants in support of the festival, and coordinating performances by over 280 school groups as well as workshops and evening concerts featuring some of the most prominent names in jazz. In addition to his work with the festival, Whalen is an adjunct faculty member at UNC, teaching trumpet to students engaged in the acclaimed UNC Jazz Studies Program. He also manages the UNC Sunset Jazz Artist Series and is co-director of the UNC Jazz Camp.

An active trumpet player, Whalen performed throughout the United States and Canada as the jazz trumpet chair of The Glenn Miller Orchestra. He is a member of the 9th+Lincoln Jazz Orchestra and the Colorado Jazz Orchestra, and has appeared with such artists as Greg Gisbert, Ron Miles, Don Aliquo, Clay Jenkins, Paul McKee, Ed Soph, John Fedchock, Brad Goode, Alan Hood, Paul Romaine, Peter Sommer, Fred Hess, Vern Sielert, and others. Also an active educator, Whalen has presented clinics and workshops throughout Colorado and serves on the faculty of the UNC Jazz Camp.

Whalen holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Colorado State University and a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado. For more information, including a schedule and information on current projects, please visit www.kevinwhalen.com.