JOSIAH BOORNAZIAN

Dr. Josiah Boornazian is the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Utah. He has taught applied saxophone and jazz studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, music technology at Broward College, jazz and music appreciation at the City College of New York, and applied saxophone, jazz performance, and musicology at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Additionally, Dr. Boornazian teaches private saxophone, music theory, Ableton, and composition lessons. At the University of Utah, Dr. Boornazian directs large and small jazz ensembles, teaches one-on-one applied jazz lessons, and teaches courses in jazz improvisation, history, theory, pedagogy, and composition and arranging. Dr. Boornazian brings world-class guest artists to the University of Utah to work with students, including internationally-renowned jazz musicians such as Delfeayo Marsalis, Christian McBride, John Daversa, and Vincent Herring,

He has been consitently invited to give clinics, guest lectures, and masterclasses at universities, junior colleges, high schools, jazz workshops, and academic conferences throughout the United States and internationally, including the Jazz Education Network (JEN: USA), the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ: Finland and Austria), the International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz (INARJ: Austria), Rhythm Changes (Netherlands), the Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network Conference (AJIRN: Australia and New Zealand), the Utah Music Educators Association Conference, the Utah Academy of Science Arts and Letters, and the Texas Music Educators Association Conference.

As an educator, Dr. Boornazian has contributed to the popular jazz website Learn Jazz Standards.com as an author, content creator, and consultant. His online jazz courses, coaching, and articles have reached tens of thousands of students, and his YouTube videos with LJS have hundreds of thousands of views collectively, with individual videos receiving 60,000+ views.