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Jens Watts

MM Ethnomusicology | Music of Brazil | Improvisation | Pedagogy
  • School of Music

Jens is a master’s student in Ethnomusicology at the University of Florida. He holds a BA in Music from Brigham Young University. His Honors undergraduate thesis was entitled “The Institutionalization of Jazz Pedagogy as Observed in the Greater Salt Lake Area of Utah.” Jens’s current research interests include bossa nova and the music of Brazil generally. He is also active as a jazz bassist.

  • Graduate Student