New Mexico School of Music

Upcoming Events



Free Jazz Appreciation Class - with Jesse Montijo

An Approach to Listening to Jazz: An American Art Form

February 6, 2010 through March 13, 2010, 1:30-2:30 pm, Saturdays

NM School of Music at Nob Hill

Jesse Montijo

Jesse Montijo has extensive performance experience as a multi-instrumentalist spanning the past 25 years. He regularly performs in various jazz festivals, flamenco festivals, and concert venues throughout the country. He has performed with Grammy Award Artists Roy Hargrove, Gatemouth Brown, Larry Mitchell, and Dianne Reeves. Recently, he was a featured performer at the 20th Annual International Flamenco Festival. Of a recent performance in New York's Lions Den, The Village Voice wrote, "Jesse's sound was oozing with soul". In addition, Jesse has performed with jazz giants Joe Bonner and Jimmy Hopps, who are both renowned for their recordings and performances with Pharaoh Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, and countless other jazz legends.

Jesse is an educator and instructor of Master Classes at The National Institute of Flamenco and Woodwind Chair for The American Flamenco Repertory Company. He has also worked educating and sharing musical knowledge at public and private schools with the Creative Music Works of Colorado. He has performed and served as a jazz educator for a large number of primary schools and colleges throughout Colorado.

Some of Jesse's teachers and mentors include Pulitzer Prize winner Phyllis Larsen (Blood on the Fields, Wynton Marsalis), Arthur Bouton (Associate Professor of Saxophone and Chair of the Woodwind Department at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music), and Malcolm Lynn Baker (Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music and 2005 Down Beat Achievement Award Winner for Jazz Education). He has also studied with jazz legends Eddie Harris, Kenny Garrett, Javon Jackson, Jimmy Hopps, Joe Bonner, and Jesse Davis. In addition, he is a devoted student of Joe Allard's woodwind instruction (renowned for his teaching at Julliard School of Music, Columbia University, NYU, New England Conservatory, and Manhattan School of Music). As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Denver Lamont School of Music as a performance major.

Although Jesse spends a great deal of time performing, recording, and traveling, one of his greatest passions is mentoring students in both private and group settings.


Annual Faculty Recital

Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 3 pm

UNM Keller Hall


Piano Master Class - with Dr. George Borisov, New Jersey

Saturday, February 13, 9 am - 4 pm

NM School of Music at Nob Hill

George Borisov

George Borisov received his professional training in piano performance from Rachmaninov State Conservatory (Rostov, Russia) and completed post-graduate course at the Glinka State Conservatory (Novosibirsk, Russia). He received his Ph.D. in musicology from All-Russia Institute of Musicology (Moscow, Russia). Among his teachers were prof. Anna Baron (pupil of H. Neuhaus and O. Kalantarova), prof. Ludmilla Korabelnikova (pupil of B. Asafiev). His performing experience includes piano solo and chamber recitals in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Austria, Norway, France and in the United States. For more than eight years he was a host for the TV music-historical show (Krasnodar, Russia). As a musicologist and musical critique he published a book and numerous articles in music magazines and newspapers in Russia and in the United States. Also he edited and published the album of Clavier Sonatas by Domenico Alberti (New York, 2008) and reflections on Alberti's output. He taught Major Piano and Music Theory courses at Krasnodar State Music College and Krasnodar State University of Arts (Russia), Ocean County College and Westminster Conservatory of Rider University (New Jersey, USA). George Borisov serves as an adjudicator for International and National competitions and auditions organized by dell'Associazione Culturale F.Chopin (Italy), Music Teacher Association, Music Educators Association, National Guild of Piano Teachers (USA). He is an Honorary Professor of the Krasnodar State University of Arts (Russia).


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