Jon Damian is an active international performer, composer, lecturer and clinician. He is currently a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His varied performances have ranged from Luciano Pavarotti to Bill Frisell to Howard McGhee, The Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, Johnny Cash, The American Repertory Theater, The Boston Opera Company, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Giuffre, Gunther Schuller, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Boston Ballet to Sheila Jordan.

His compositions have been performed in a range of venues from the Institute of Contemporary Art to the Berklee Performance Center and his work as performer, lecturer and clinician have taken him to Asia, South and Central Americas, Europe and Israel. Fellow clinicians have included Phil Woods, Sam Rivers, Gary Burton and Dave Liebman.

Recordings include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Collage, Nova, the Jazz in the Classroom series, Bill Frisell, Wolf Soup, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. His recording “Dedications: Faces and Places” with Bill Frisell is now available.

Jon’s first book The Guitarists Guide To Composing and Improvising
is now available through Berklee Press and Hal Leonard Publications. A new book “The Chord Factory ” will be available at the end of the year.
A video “Heavy Rubber”, a documentary about one of Jon Damian’s inventions, the Rubbertellie will be available in Fall 2007.

Jon Damian is originally from Brooklyn, New York and some of Jon Damian’s private students have included Bill Frisell, Mark Whitfield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Leni Stern and Wayne Krantz.

He is the Recipient of the Pro Arts Consortium Public Service Award and the Harris-Stanton Award.

Upcoming performances and recordings include The Boston Modern Orchestra at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston and Mario Frangoulis at Sanders Theater at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Jon Damian (jdamian@berklee.edu )