Lakeland, FL
Dr. Jeffrey Benatar is a Jazz Pianist with a passion for teaching. He is Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies and Coordinator of Music Management, at Florida Southern College. Benatar directs FSC’s big band and combos, leads the Jazz Piano Studio, and teaches Jazz Studies and Music Management courses. Benatar’s composition “Hank and Joe” for Septet was called “Superb” and “Intense” by JazzTimes Magazine. Benatar has performed with Clay Jenkins, Harold Danko, Adam Larson, Pat LaBarbera, Bob Sneider, John Sneider, Melba Joyce, Andy Watson, the Dayton Jazz Orchestra, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Benatar received an Institute of Jazz Studies Morroe Berger-Benny Carter Jazz Research Fund Award for his thesis Uri Caine and His Jewishly Influenced Music. Benatar’s articles have been published in the journals Jazz Education in Research and Practice and Florida Music Director. Benatar has presented and/or performed at Jazz Education Network and Florida Music Education Association conferences, as well as at the Leeds International Jazz Education conference and the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies at Cornell University. He has given masterclasses, presentations, and/or recitals at Florida State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Syracuse University, Washington State University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Wilfred Laurier University, and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He received his DMA in Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media from the Eastman School of Music, an MA in Jazz History and Research from Rutgers-Newark, and a BM in Jazz Studies (Piano) Performance from The Ohio State University.
Thursday, January 5, 2023
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM US EST
Friday, January 6, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM US EST