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Alan D. Shinn is Professor of Music and Director of Percussion and Jazz
Studies at Texas Tech University. He holds the Bachelor of Music
Education degree from the University of Missouri and the Master of Music
degree from Texas Tech University. His primary teachers were Tim
Lautzenheiser and Ron Dyer. Prior to coming to Texas Tech in 1982 as
faculty percussionist, he served as Instructor of Percussion and Jazz at
Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Tx. Over seventy
percussion students have graduated with music degrees at TTU since 1982
and are enjoying careers in education (all levels) and performance as
well as music business and industry. Many former jazz students are
performing professionally or are teaching in public schools, junior
colleges or universities.
Shinn is Principal Timpanist with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and a
former member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as
Principal Timpanist/Percussionist with the Roswell Symphony and has
performed a number of times with the chamber orchestras of Santa Fe Pro
Musica and 20th Century Unlimited. In March of 2001, Shinn performed
with the Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Smithsonian Chamber Players in
Washington DC As a member of these organizations and the musical
communities in which he lives, he has performed with Henry Mancini,
Peter Nero, Roger Williams, Doc Severinsen, The Fifth Dimension, Rita
Moreno, Michael Martin Murphy, Tony Bennett, William Warfield, Mark
O'Connor, Jose Feliciano, Mitzi Gaynor, Engelbert Humperdinct, Cathy
Rigby in Peter Pan and Carol Channing in Hello Dolly.
Under his direction, Texas Tech's Jazz Ensemble 1 has taken honors at
many jazz festivals. The group has performed with such renowned jazz
artists as Louie Bellson, Frank Mantooth, Kevin Mahogany, Willie Hill,
Clay Jenkins, Kim Richmond, Denis DiBlasio, Tony Campise, Phil Wilson,
Bob Mintzer, Tuck and Patti, Dave Pietro, Ed Calle and Ernie Watts. The
Tech Jazz Ensemble has opened shows for Spyro Gyra, the Yellowjackets
and Jay Leno. In 1996 the ensemble opened for Arturo Sandoval and the
University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band 1 at the UNC/Greeley,CO
Jazz Festival. Their CD Seein' the Light...Hearin' the Hub-Tones (Sea
Breeze Jazz) received a Grammy nomination in 1998. Shinn has produced
CDs that have garnered national attention for jazz singer Carla
Helmbrecht, trumpeter Mary Benner and vibraphonist Lisa Rogers. He
served as Associate Producer on Helmbrect's 2001 release Be Cool, Be
Kind (Heart Music) which climbed to number eight on the Gavin Jazz
Charts. He is currently finishing his second TTU big band project which
features Austin jazz legend Tony Campise. He has recorded as a
percussionist on many of his own projects as well as on albums by
Lubbock artists Terry Allen and The Maines Brothers.
Alan Shinn is an active clinician and adjudicator throughout the
Southwest and Midwest and has served as an Educational/Product
Consultant for REMO, Inc. and Pro-Mark. He is currently an Artist
Endorser of Innovative Percussion. Percussion, Jazz
To contact Alan Shinn, email
alan.shinn@ttu.edu.
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