Anderson University
Anderson, South Carolina
Dr. Derick Cordoba is the Director of the Johnny Mann Center for Commercial Music and an Assistant Professor of Music at the South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University. His research is currently focused on sacred and liturgical jazz in America as well as crowdfunding in the music industry. Derick’s dissertation, “Liturgical Jazz: The Lineage of the Subgenre in the Music of Edgar E. Summerlin,” was on the origins of liturgical jazz and its evolution during the 1960s and 1970s, He has presented his research at several Jazz Education Network conferences, national and regional College Music Society conferences, International Association of Jazz Arrangers and Composers Symposiums and the Sixth Rhythm Changes Conference in Graz, Austria. Dr. Cordoba also led a series of commemorative 60th Anniversary services and lectures about the first liturgical jazz service, written by Ed Summerlin in 1959, at SMU, UNT and in Illinois.
As a performer guitarist Derick Cordoba has toured over twenty countries and has been on over twenty recordings. He is one of the guitarists for the original band Further Seems Forever and has been a side man on several nationally released albums for other groups. Derick also leads his own jazz group and performs regularly with his quartet which features original compositions as well as original arrangements of standards. His latest recording "J&J" will be released October 29, 2022. Derick holds degrees from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (DMA), Florida International University (MM), and University of North Florida (BM).
Thursday, January 5, 2023
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM US EST
Thursday, January 5, 2023
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM US EST