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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jonathan Patterson has accepted our invitation to join the faculty of the UNT College of Music Division of Jazz Studies as an Assistant Professor of Popular/Commercial Music (tenure-track) this fall.
Dr. Patterson earned the D.M.A. in Guitar Performance at the University of Southern California in 2011, with a Music Education minor field and elective fields in Music Recording and Jazz Studies; the M.A. in Ethnomusicology at the University o...f California, Berkeley in 1999, with a research focus in Japanese Popular Music; and the B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Southern California in 1997, with a research focus on Japanese Music, Language and Culture. He has been a certified AVID Sibelius Instructor since 2015.
Dr. Patterson is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he teaches the harmony and aural skills curriculum in the Popular Music Performance, Songwriting and Music Production program, and classes in audio recording and editing (ProTools), MIDI sequencing (Logic X), and notation (Finale and Sibelius). He has taught previously at Whittier College, The Musicians Institute, and other colleges.
Dr. Patterson is active as a recording and performing artist, and has released more than 25 CDs. A fluent speaker of Japanese, he tours regularly in Japan, where he uses the artistic name Dr. Capital and appears on TV as an educator and performer. He records with his Brazilian music group Bossa Zuzu. His music has been heard in a large number of TV and radio programs and commercials.
To learn more about Dr. Patterson’s work, be sure to visit:
his website http://www.dr-capital.com/
and his
Bandcamp page https://dr-capital.bandcamp.com/
