Glen Whitehead, M.D.A.
Assistant Professor of Music at CU Colorado Springs and CU Denver (joint position)

D.M.A., MA in Contemporary Music Performance and Practice from the University of California, San Diego
BMus. in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Teaching experience and interests include 20th music history classes such as History of Jazz, Rock and Roll Music, and 20th century experimental music. Glen has also taught classes in VAPA and the Humanities program focusing on broader historical issues of music and culture. Such classes include Race, Culture and Modernity (Humanities), Minority Voices (Humanities), Race and Gender Issues in American Popular Music, and Multicultural Music of America. He has directed the CU Colorado Springs Jazz Ensemble. At the CU Denver School of Music Industry Studies he is the trumpet instructor, teaches music theory and ear training classes, and is the director of the Rock / Pop and the Electro Acoustic Improvisation Ensembles, the latter of which he founded in 2003.

With an eclectic background in performance, recording, and scholarship, Glen held the Principal Trumpet chair with the Orquesta Sinfonica UANL de Monterrey, Mexico and the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra in San Diego. He played solo trumpet in 'Tania", an opera by renowned composer Anthony Davis, released on Kotch International records. With O'Keefe / Stanyek / Walton / Whitehead, an improvised music quartet, he has recorded on 9Winds and Circumvention Records. This group’s most recent CD “Tunnel” was listed in the L.A. Weekly as one of the top cd releases of the year in 2003. Most recently, he can be heard on “Diamonds and Coffee: Kim Stone Electric Band Live at Smokebrush on Exit Records (2004). Dedicated to contemporary and creative music, Glen has played in several world premiere compositions and has given performances and lectures across the United States and Europe. In 2002 he received a President's Fund for the Humanities Grant from the University of Colorado with composer Dr. Michael Theodore, Associate Professor of Composition at CU Boulder, to create a piece for improvisation quartet and computer. Moreover, he recently collaborated with Dr. Theodore on "Trumpetspeak", an interactive duo for trumpet and computer, which has been performed at CU Denver, NWEAMO Electro Acoustic Festival at San Diego State University and at California Institute of the Arts Disney Theater in Los Angeles. Currently, he is working on a CD recording of this duo.