Jazz and Contemporary Music

Phone: 621-3274

Fax: 621-3293

Office hours: By Appointment

Anita-Ann Jerosch holds a M.M. in Trombone Performance from the University of Maine and a B.M. in Jazz and Contemporary Music with a performance concentration from the University of Maine at Augusta. She is presently working on her PhD. in Music and Education from the University of Maine.

Anita has previously studied at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music with Hal Janks; bass trombonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, David Taylor and Mark Manduca, Anita toured the U.S. with the musicals "Hello Dolly", "Cabaret" and "Sweeney Todd" and musical revues for performers Carol Channing and Rita Moreno. With the Kit McClure Band she toured the U.S., Europe and Japan for five years, performed at the 1989 and 1993 Democratic National Conventions and at President Clinton's Inaugural Balls in 1993 and 1997. While in NYC, she has performed with the big bands; Diva, Illinois Jacquet Band, Charlie Percip Superman Band, and the Tom Pierson Orchestra. More recently she has backed up Don McClean, Barry Manilow, Kenny Rogers, Clem DeRosa, Marvin Stamm, Joan Rivers and the Manhattan Transfer.

Anita is bass trombonist with the Bangor Symphony, Maine Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Port Opera. She is the band director at the University of Maine at Farmington, instructor of low brass and chamber music at Bowdoin College and music education instructor at the University of Maine at Augusta. She holds Maine State Teacher Certifications for K-12 Music and German.

ajerosch@comcast.net
anitaann.jerosch@maine.edu