Christopher Navarrete Email & Phone Number

Education: Dr. Christopher Navarrete is a trumpeter, teacher, and composer from Northern California. Director of Instrumental Music Program at Kirkwood Community College, he shares a passion for music education, classical and jazz performance, interdisciplinary studies, improvisation, music scholarship, jazz composition and arranging, and instrumental conducting. He has earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music with emphasis’ in Music Education, Music Performance, and Jazz Studies, and a Single Subject Teaching Credential from California State University of Chico. From the University of Northern Colorado, he has earned Master of Music Degree in Music Performance and Jazz Studies, as well as a Doctor of Arts Degree in Jazz Studies with a secondary in Jazz Composition. Performer: In 2022 he recorded his jazz album Stepping Forward, as well as recording as a sideman on albums: Rumba Pa Sanen with the Walter Jazz Orchestra, Behind the City with the Chang Su Orchestra, Infancia with the Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra, the Romeo and Juliet Project with the University of Northern Colorado Lab Band I, and Enter Autumn with the David Caffey Jazz Orchestra. Educator: From 2019-2024 he served as the Director of Bands at California State University of Chico and taught large and small ensembles, instrumental conducting and rehearsal techniques, aural musicianship, jazz composition and arranging, brass pedagogy, jazz improvisation and theory, jazz history, and applied lessons. Through scholarship, Dr. Navarrete shares a passion for behavior science, exercise science, neuroscience, and music pedagogy. In addition to his teaching and scholarship experiences he has served as the CMEA Region III Honor Band Director, adjudicator for various CMEA Festivals in the Northern California region, Brass Clinician for the California Arts Project, clinician and adjudicator for the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, Director of the Chico Jazz Festival, co-coordinator of the Chico State Departmental Scholarship Fundraiser Glorious Sounds of the Season, served on the Chico State Summer Arts Curriculum Committee and the Music Department Scholarship Committee, Jazz Aspen-Snowmass Honor Band Director, and has 10+ years working as an instructor and manager at the Jazz in the Sangres Summer Camp for the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts. Dr. Navarrete has studied under the instruction of Greg Gisbert, Erik Applegate, Drew Zaremba, Dr. Brian Casey, Dr. Richard Winslow, Kenyon Brenner, Dr. Shawn Williams, Rocky Winslow, Steve Kovalcheck, Bill Pfund, and Clay Jenkins.

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