Course Detail
Prep Guitar/Bass Lessons
Time and Location
Times
Term: Spring 2025
Start Date: JAN 13, 2025
End Date: MAY 16, 2025
Meeting Days: ARR
Meeting Times: ARR
Location
Campus: Hillsboro
Building: FA
Room: 114
Registration Information
Credit Hours: 1
Subject Code: MSA
Course Number: 072
Section Number: 02
CRN: 31486
Tier: 2
Instruction TypeLecture/Lab
Enrollment Numbers
Remaining Seats: 10
Filled Seats: 0
Maximum Seats: 10
Comments:
Course Description: Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Prep Guitar/Bass Lessons involves one 30-minute private lesson and five practice hours per week. Applied lesson and practice time doubles when taking two semester hours credit. (F,S,Su)
Prep Guitar/Bass Lessons involves one 30-minute private lesson and five practice hours per week. Applied lesson and practice time doubles when taking two semester hours credit. (F,S,Su)
Faculty Information
Name: Andrew Binder
Title: Adjunct-Music
Classification: Adjunct
Credentials: Doctor of Music: U Of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Office: null null
E-Mail: abinder@jeffco.edu
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Bio: Andrew Binder is a bassist and composer from St. Louis, Missouri. Andrew holds a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in Jazz Performance with a cognate in Music Composition, a M.M. in Music Composition from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, and B.M.A. degrees in Composition, Jazz Studies and Double Bass Performance from Bowling Green State University.
Some of his accomplishments include winner of the 2018 Ensemble Ibis Competition Graduate division for his piece Brux, winner of the 26th Annual Craig`s Keyboards/UT Young Composer`s Competition; Finalist in the 2014 Douglas Wayland Chamber Competition Graduate Division; Works performed or recorded by new music groups Dal Niente, Ritual Action, and Ensemble Ibis; works read by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and members of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra; Arrangements recorded or performed by University of Studio Jazz Band, Miami Vocal Jazz Ensemble, University of Illinois` Concert Jazz Band and Repertory Jazz Orchestra. Andrew has also participated in the Charlotte New Music Festival and the Dal Niente + DePaul Summer Residency for New Music, and is a current participant in the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop under the direction of Alan Ferber and Andy Farber.
As a bassist, Andrew has performed in a wide variety of groups with high-caliber musicians throughout the US. Some notable musicians include Chip McNeill, Joel Spencer, Tito Carrillo, Larry Gray, Chip Stephens, Mark Tonelli, Jose Gobbo, Dave Stone, and Tammy McCann.
Some of his accomplishments include winner of the 2018 Ensemble Ibis Competition Graduate division for his piece Brux, winner of the 26th Annual Craig`s Keyboards/UT Young Composer`s Competition; Finalist in the 2014 Douglas Wayland Chamber Competition Graduate Division; Works performed or recorded by new music groups Dal Niente, Ritual Action, and Ensemble Ibis; works read by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and members of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra; Arrangements recorded or performed by University of Studio Jazz Band, Miami Vocal Jazz Ensemble, University of Illinois` Concert Jazz Band and Repertory Jazz Orchestra. Andrew has also participated in the Charlotte New Music Festival and the Dal Niente + DePaul Summer Residency for New Music, and is a current participant in the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop under the direction of Alan Ferber and Andy Farber.
As a bassist, Andrew has performed in a wide variety of groups with high-caliber musicians throughout the US. Some notable musicians include Chip McNeill, Joel Spencer, Tito Carrillo, Larry Gray, Chip Stephens, Mark Tonelli, Jose Gobbo, Dave Stone, and Tammy McCann.








