Professor of Music and Barbara Baldwin De Frees Chair in the Performing Arts
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8786

E-mail: dietrichk@ripon.edu

Personal Web site

Education

• B.Mus., Lawrence University
• M.Mus., Northwestern University
• D.M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Awards and Honors

• Severy Teaching Awards, 1994 and 1998

Areas of Interest

• Jazz performance
• Jazz history
• Duke Ellington
• Trombone performance

Recent Publications

• Jazz 'Bones: The World of Jazz Trombone (Advance Music, 2005)
• CD with Matrix, Proud Flesh: A Matrix Reunion (Summit Records, 2002)
• Duke's 'Bones: Ellington's Great Trombonists (Advance Music, 1995)
• Contributor to the International Dictionary of Black Composers (Fitzroy, 1999)
• Regular reviewer of books for CHOICE and recordings for the International Trombone Association Journal

Current Courses Taught

• Music 190.05 Jazz Ensemble
• Music 190.07 Symphonic Wind Ensemble
• Music 112, 300 Jazz History
• Music 112, 300 World Music
• Music 332 Romantic Musical Styles
• Music 121 Music Theory I
  Music 150 Private lessons (trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, improvisation)
• Music 302 Instrumental Methods