Colin Hemmingsen
Senior Lecturer in Jazz studies
DipExMus Auck, MMus Bost
Colin Hemmingsen has had a dual jazz/classical career for more than 30 years
and until 1992 was New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s principal bassoonist.
He won a Downbeat scholarship on tenor saxophone in 1970 to study jazz at Berklee
College of Music and was subsequently awarded a scholarship to New England Conservatory.
There he completed a Masters degree in bassoon with Sherman Walt as his teacher.
After teaching and performing in the United States (freelance with the Boston
Philharmonia and Opera and ballet companies and a one year position at Virginal
Commonwealth University in a resident woowind quintet) he returned to New Zealand
to work with the NZSO and also establish the country’s first jazz school.
He has been involved in jazz education since the mid-1970s and founded the New Zealand
Jazz Foundation in 1983. He is currently a trustee of NZJF.
Senior Lecturer in Jazz studies at the New Zealand School of Music, his present
research consists of exploring the bassoon in Jazz Performance, a CD release in
2005 – The Rite of Swing and a conference paper at the International Double
Reed Society 2004, Electric Instruments in Jazz, (wind synthesis), CD
release 2004 Parallax. Recent research seminars include, Eddie Daniels-improvisational
characteristics and The Lydian Augmented-A scale for all Occasions.
Contact details
phone: +64 4 801 5799 ext 62319
room: 1C28, Mt Cook Campus
email: colin.hemmingsen@nzsm.ac.nz
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