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• Associate Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• Ph.D. , Indiana University, 1971
• M.M. , Indiana University, 1969
• A.B. , Oberlin College, 1963

Background:

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Gary M. Potter is a former faculty member of San Francisco State University and the University of California Santa Cruz, and served as a visiting professor at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut of the University of Hamburg (1991-1992). His special interests include theory pedagogy, teaching musical skills, twentieth-century music, and jazz studies.

Professor Potter's articles have been published in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, College Music Symposium, and Jazzforschung. He has extensive experience as a performer on keyboards, trombone, and double bass with several published recordings and CDs.