Dr. David Ake

dake@unr.nevada.edu

David Ake, Associate Professor, holds a Ph.D. in musicology and an MA in ethnomusicology from UCLA, as well as degrees in jazz performance from the University of Miami (BM) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA). He authored the highly regarded book Jazz Cultures for the University of California Press, and his articles have appeared in such publications as American Music, the Journal of Musicological Research, and the Cambridge Companion to Jazz. In 2000 he received the Society for American Music’s Wiley Housewright Award for Outstanding Dissertation, and in 2001 he was named winner of the Mousel-Feltner Award for Outstanding Research from the College of Arts and Science at the University of Nevada. As a pianist, he has worked alongside many of today’s outstanding improvising musicians and his playing and compositions appear on a number of recordings, including In Between, his first CD devoted entirely to solo piano, and Balance, his third release with The Collective, a quintet based at UNR. Visit his website at www.davidakemusic.com