Arthur White

School of Music - University of Missouri

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Arthur White Assistant Professor
Director, Jazz Studies
DMA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
office: 121 Loeb Hall
phone: 573-882-3430
fax: 573-884-5515
email: WhiteAr@missouri.edu
mailing address: 121 Loeb Hall, Columbia, MO 65211

Dr. Arthur White is the director of Jazz Studies and assistant professor of music at the University of Missouri, where he directs the Concert and Studio Jazz Bands; teaches jazz improvisation, arranging and pedagogy; oversees the jazz combo program; and coordinates the MU/Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival.

Originally from Kansas, Dr. White received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Emporia State University (KS), a Master of Music in Jazz Pedagogy from West Virginia University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His primary teachers include Dr. Steven Stusek, Paul Scea, Curtis Johnson, and Branford Marsalis. His dissertation is an examination of the harmonic improvisation style of jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson.

Prior to his appointment at MU, Dr. White was the director of jazz studies at Northeastern State University (OK). During his tenure at NSU, Dr. White produced five critically acclaimed CDs with the NSU Jazz Ensemble and some of the top performers in jazz. NSU named Dr. White as a Centurion, signifying him as one of the 100 most influential people in the university’s history. He was also named the 2007 Oklahoma Jazz Educator of the Year by the Oklahoma Jazz Educators Alliance. Dr. White has also taught at UNCG, WVU, Frostburg State University (MD), and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Emerging nationally as a saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator, Dr. White has recorded with Fred Wesley, Chris Murrell, Scott Wendholt, Bobby Watson, Henry Johnson, Robin Eubanks, Russell Malone, and jazz legend Dewey Redman. White has arranged music for jazz luminaries Mike Mainieri, Peter Erskine, Eric Person, Mulgrew Miller, Kevin Mahogany, Henry Johnson, Dewey Redman, Scott Wendholt, Bobby Watson, Bob Mintzer, Robin Eubanks, Kathy Kosins, Paul Hanson, Russell Malone, Bob Sheppard, Andy Narell, and Randy Brecker. White is published by Second Floor Music, through Hal Leonard, Inc.

Recently, Dr. White has performed with Russell Malone, Bob Sheppard, Randy Brecker, Kristin Chenoweth, Amici New York Orchestra, the RA Ensemble, Byron Stripling, and as an invited performer at conferences for the North American Saxophone Alliance, International Society for Improvised Music, and Oklahoma Music Educators Association. He has performed with hundreds of nationally acclaimed jazz, pop, and country artists, and his arrangements and original compositions have been performed by high school and college jazz ensembles throughout the country. White is a member of the Jazz Education Network, International Society for Improvised Music, North American Saxophone Alliance, Music Educators National Conference, College Music Society, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Kappa Kappa Psi.