Knox Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Grant - Collaborative Research Grant: Auctions, with Rob Smith, 2014.Knox Faculty Research / Creative Work Grant: Creative Music Studio Fall 2016 Workshop, 2016-2017.Jazz and improvisation, music of the African Diaspora, 20th century musics, post-tonal theory. M.A., Musicology, 2002, Washington University-St.
As a director, I emphasize a broad knowledge of both classic jazz repertoire and new innovations in jazz composition." As a musicologist I continue to focus my research on the relationships between jazz and the political and social climates surrounding different periods in jazz history. "As a performer, I continue to experiment with new approaches to jazz improvisation.
His compact disc with the LYNX Duo ( Music for Saxophone and Percussion) is available on the Mark Custom Recording label, and he is featured on other recordings on the Mark and Capstone labels. Broadway has appeared at various conferences and symposiums throughout North America, Europe and Australia. Among these are the Midwest Clinic, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Symposium of the International Musicological Society, the College Music Society International Convention, the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, the World Saxophone Congress, The Music Educators National Conference, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors National Conference, and the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference. As a performer, composer, and presenter, Dr. Broadway to Cuba and India to study with master percussionists from those cultures' rich drumming traditions. He has also traveled to Belize, Spain, and Kenya as part of the World Music Mission, a multi-national network of musicians, writers, worship leaders, engineers and ethno-musicologists. Broadway has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Spoleto Festival, and with symphonies in California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, South Carolina, and South Dakota. Ensembles from UF have performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (1998, 2003) and numerous “Day of Percussion” state meetings. Students from UF have gone on to careers in music education, assistantships at graduate schools throughout the US, college teaching positions, and performance and teaching posts as far off as Scotland and Australia. He has served as Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Florida since 1997, and served in similar capacities at the University of South Dakota and Augusta State University. Kenneth Broadway has a passion for training the next generation of teachers, performers, and leaders in the field of music. Equally at home behind timpani, steel pan, or the drumset, Dr.