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ISB 2025 Convention Presenter — Glenn Dewey

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Name:	Glenn Dewey
Website:	https://experts.okstate.edu/gdewey
Presentation Date:	Tuesday, June 3, 2025 9:00 AM
Presentation Venue:	KMU 240 Choir Room
Presentation Title:	All You Need Are Three Cool Licks - Using motivic development techniques to craft a cohesive improvised solo using just a few
Presented / Performed Previous ISB Convention?	No
Type of Presentation:	Interactive Workshop
Genre:	Adult Learners, Professional-in-Training, Improvisation, Jazz - unaccompanied, Jazz - with piano collaborator, Jazz - with other collaborators
Bio:	Glenn Dewey is a versatile instrumentalist who performs regularly on double bass and electric bass in virtually every musical genre. He has performed in 49 of our 50 states as well as Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Austria in venues such as the Kennedy Center in DC, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Orchestra Hall in Chicago and Carnegie Hall in NY City. Mr. Dewey has performed with Jazz and Commercial artists such as Kenny Werner, Terrell Stafford, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Greenwood, Sammy Nestico, Jamey Aebersold, Manhattan Transfer, Toby Keith, Larry Gatlin, Steve Allen, Paul Winter, and Michael Feinstein. Mr. Dewey has also worked with artists such as YoYo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and Leon Fleisher and has played under the baton of Minnesota Orchestra’s Music Director Osmo Vänskä, Detroit Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin, and Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Prior to joining Greenwood School of Music at Oklahoma State University in 2021, Glenn Dewey was Professor of Bass at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and had completed an illustrious 28 year career as a member of “The President’s Own” US Marine Band. In his short tenure in Oklahoma Prof. Dewey has built a significant bass studio at OSU and has been in demand throughout the region both as both a performer and clinician.
Program (if available):	Not Provided