RODNEY OAKES is a Music Professor Emeritus from Los Angeles Harbor College. Oakes currently teaches part time in PACE (Program for Accelerated College Education). He has won numerous awards including a Rockefeller Grant; an NEA grant; a Fulbright Senior Lectureship to the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland; and ASCAP Standard Awards for every year since 1987. Oakes was the founding editor of Journal SEAMUS, the official journal of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States. As a trombonist, Oakes has pioneered the use of the trombone combined with electronic devices. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and has presented solo concerts in Moscow; Warsaw and Cracow, Poland; Ghent, Belgium; Lake Como, Italy; Lyon, France; and throughout Hungary. In addition, he performs with
numerous Los Angeles jazz ensembles. Oakes presents frequent concerts with guitarist/composer Igor with an ensemble named Duo OG. Oakes and Igor have released two CDs on the III label. A number of Oakes’ works are available on the Cambria, the Living Music, and Innova labels, including his most recent release, Music For MIDI Trombone (innova 542)
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