David R. Marowitz
David R. Marowitz
email: dmarowitz@trschools.com
www.trschools.com/staff/m/dmarowitz
Education:
1980: Masters In Education (Music Education)-Towson State University
1973: BS in Applied Music and Music Education-Elon College
(graduated in top ten percent of graduating class)
1969-70: Studies in Arranging, Composition, Trombone-Berklee College of Music
1969: High School Diploma-Ocean Township High School
Teaching Certifications (New Jersey):
Teacher of Music, K-12
Elementary School Teacher, K-8
Teacher of Data Processing
Private Study:
Music Composition:
1976-82: Adolph Sandole (recognized in Leonard Feather’s The New Encyclopedia
of Jazz, author of The Craft of Jazz et al (Theodore Presser Co.)
1973-74: Hank Levy (composer for Stan Kenton and Don Ellis Big Bands):
Jazz Improvisation:
1976-82: Adolph Sandole, Jazz Musician's Guild (Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master Levels)
Trombone:
1973-74: John Melick (formerly of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
1971-74 Dr. Donald S. Reinhardt (author of The Pivot System)
1969-70: Phil Wilson (formerly of the Woody Herman Orchestra)
also short term instruction with Curtis Fuller, Bill Watrous, Reynold Schilke.
Educational Music Experience:
1973-74: Towson State Jazz Ensemble (nationally recognized)-Hank Levy, director, symphony
orchestra, brass and percussion ensemble, trombone ensemble.
1971-1973: Elon College Jazz Ensemble ( toured Europe and Puerto Rico),
concert band, marching band. symphony orchestra
Public School Music Teaching Experience:
1990 to present: Hooper Ave. Elementary School, Toms River, N.J.
(instrumental music lessons/band/string ensemble, classroom general music/special ed. music)
1988-1990: Toms River High School South
(Concert. Marching, and Jazz Band Director, Music Theory Instructor)
1986-88: Neptune (N.J.) Junior and Senior High (Concert, and Marching Band Director)
1977-86: Neptune Junior High School (Concert and Jazz Band Jazz Improvisation Instructor)
Other Teaching Experience:
2005 to present: Instructor in courses in history of jazz and classical music at the
Academy for Lifelong Learning at Ocean County College (N.J.)
2005: Camp Viking (summer program for disadvantaged children held on the Ocean
County College campus)- computer teacher.
[Program discontinued after 2005 due to budgetary restraints.]
1978: Music composition teacher at Westfield Summer Workshop for the Creative
Arts
Private Teaching Experience:
1977 to present: private trombone and jazz improvisation instructor
Clinician:
2008: New Jersey Music Educators Association State Conference
("Teaching Brass Instruments for Non-Brass Majors")
2007: New Jersey Music Educators Association State Conference
(“Creating and Maintaining an Effective Website for Your Music Program”)
2000-2002: Young Authors Conference sponsored by Ocean County Reading Council,
("The Literary/Multimedia Connection")
1984: New Jersey Music Educators Association State Conference (Jazz Improvisation)
Clinician at various high school jazz clinics, adjudicating band competitions
Conductor:
1985: New Jersey Region One All State Jazz Ensemble
1978 & 1983: Shore Intermediate Honors Band (1978 & 1983
Published Articles:
“Mastering the Expressive Elements in Jazz Improvisation"
(soon to be published in JazzEd magazine)
“Why Your Music Program Needs a Website (And a Few Ideas to Get Started)", Teaching Music magazine, Vol. 14, No. 2, October, 2006-official publication of the National Association for Music Education (article is referred to in Music Tech Education (Milikin Univ.), Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Music Ed Tech Online, and Da Musically Inclined Bomb (DePauw Univ.)
“Is Jazz an Art Form” The Instrumentalist (Vol 34, No.9, April 1980)
“Music Is”, Tempo magazine (The New Jersey Music Educator Magazine, Vol 36, No.3, March,
1982)
National Recognition in Jazz:
Downbeat Magazine March 10, 1977; page 12, review of my Jazz Nonet, “Matrix”.
Downbeat Magazine January 15, 1976 pages 25 & 26, review of Buddy Rich Big Band album:
Big Band Machine which contains my arrangement of “On Broadway”.
Professional Music Experience:
As Arranger:
Ray Valenti Explosion: (1974-75
Buddy Rich Big Band 1974-77
Extensive arranging for many professional, military, and school ensembles
Recordings:
Original arrangements on recordings by Buddy Rich and His Big Band:
Big Band Machine, released in 1975 (Grove Merchant GM3307), track: "On Broadway"
Big Band Machine, re-released in 1999 (Simitar Ent.), track: "On Broadway"
Big Band Machine, re-released in 2004 (P-Vine), track: "On Broadway"
Mr. Drums, released in 1978 (Quintessense Jazz Series J-25051), track: "On Broadway"
Europe 77, released in 1995, previously unreleased tracks (Magic), track: "So What"
Buddy Rich Big Band, released in 1979 (Armando Curcio Editore), track: "On Broadway"
Wham, re-released in 2001, previously unreleased tracks, (Label M), track: "So What"
Wham, re-released in 2003 (Sin-Drome Records), track: "So What"
Lakewood Jazz Ensemble CD: arrangements of "Limehouse Blues" and jazz trombone
solo on "One O'Clock Jump”
Online:
To view and listen to two of my big band arrangements and my jazz trombone playing:
Visit: http://lakewoodjazz.com/lje.html, scroll down to "Click for Video Highlights", then on drop down menu, choose:
1. "Limehouse Blues"-Music Spectacular 1994 (conducting my arrangement)
2. "So What"-Music Spectacular 1995 (my arrangement)
3. "When the Saints"-Music Spectacular 1995, (my Dixieland Jazz playing)
4. “Magic Time”-Music Spectacular 1995 (my jazz trombone solo)
Professional Performing:
1970–1995: Freelancing in jazz, classical, theatre, opera, club date and popular idioms.
1974-75: Ray Valenti Explosion: (toured the U.S. and Canada)
1976: Lionel Hampton Big Band
1976-80: Red Oak Theatre Orchestra (Broadway Musicals)
1977-1995: Asbury Park Concert Band (Arthur Pryor, Founder)
1977-78: The Jazz Is Ensemble (Big Band)-co-leader with Herb Robertson and Jack Winters
1977-79: The New Jersey State Orchestra,
1991-1995: The Performing Arts Ensemble Orchestra (Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, N.J.)
1994 Recording: The Lakewood Jazz Ensemble, Jazz trombone solo
1970- 1995: Freelance performing in jazz, pop, club date and classical idioms
1991-1995: The Performing Arts Ensemble Orchestra (Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, N.J.)
1994 Recording: The Lakewood Jazz Ensemble, Jazz trombone solo
1970– to 1995: Freelance performing in jazz, pop, club date and classical idioms
Backed up the following performers: Louis Bellson, Ray Copeland, "Dizzy" Gilespie, Urbie Green, Jay and the Americans, Joe Newman, Smokey Robinson, Arturo Sandoval, Byron Strickling, The Four Tops, The Dovells, The Jive Five, Allen Vizzutti, ,and Bill Watrous.
*all performing on trombone except Asbury Park Concert Band (trombone/euphonium)
Computer Software Knowledge:
Finale Music Notation Software
Band-In-A-Box Music Software
Microsoft Word, Publisher, Powerpoint, and Excel.
Over 125 CEU hours in computer technology classes