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Matthew Niess
Assistant Professor — Trombone
Director — Criterions Jazz Ensemble
Room 229, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-436-2578
mniess@wcupa.edu
Matt Niess currently serves as Director of Jazz Studies, Associate Trombone Professor and director of The Criterions Jazz Ensemble at West Chester University. He is also the lead trombonist with The US Army Blues Jazz Ensemble based in Washington, DC.
Mr. Niess is a former high school band director and has taught on the jazz faculties of Shenandoah and Towson Universities and is a graduate of West Chester and George Mason Universities.
With The Army Blues he has served as Senior Producer and Jazz Coordinator of the Eastern Trombone Workshop. He is the founder and director of The Capitol Bones, a jazz trombone ensemble, which has received national recognition, winner of the 1991 International Trombone Association Kai Winging Award, and has performed throughout the country. Mr. Niess has also appeared as a soloist, clinician, and adjudicator at numerous jazz festivals, universities and schools throughout the country. He has produced CDs with The Capitol Bones and The Capitol Bones Big Band and has appeared on many recordings to include The Mark Taylor/Steve Fidyk Big Band, The Mike Tomaro Big Band, The US Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, The Studio A Big Band, The Washington Winds, Warner Bros. Publications, FJH Music, Carl Fischer Music, Belwin Publications and Hal Leonard Publications. He has also recorded sound tracks for FOX TV, HBO, Discovery and TLC.
Mr. Niess is a SeaBreeze recording artist and performs on a Shires trombone.
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