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San Francisco Bay Area-based music educator and author Keith Hatschek offers a range of lively and informative enrichment talks drawing on his own interests and past experience as a musician, recording engineer, record producer, entrepreneur and educator. He directed the Music Management Program at University of the Pacific for two decades.

Current offerings include:

  • Singin’ The Blues: A Tour of Mississippi’s Blues Trails

  • Traveling Tennessee’s Music Trails: An Armchair Tour

  • Magical Mystery Tour: How the Beatles Revolutionized Sound Recording

  • Louis Armstrong: American Genius

  • The Real Ambassadors: Dave Brubeck’s “Lost” Jazz Musical

  • Honky Tonk Angels to Sweet Home Alabama: Answer Songs in Popular Music

  • Behind the Motown Sound: How Sound Engineers Shaped the Music of Young America

  • Freedom Sounds: The Role of the Jazz Ambassadors During the Cold War

  • BAM! Crunch! Whoosh! – How Sound Effects Changed the Movie Experience

  • The Music of The Magnificent Seven

Past Engagements

 

Jazz Festivals

  • Monterey Jazz Festival

  • Detroit Jazz Festival

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center

  • Sopot Jazz Festival (Poland)

  • North Texas State University - Willis Conover Centennial

  • Brubeck Jazz Festivals (Stockton, CA)

Music Career Talks

  • Butler University

  • Berklee College of Music

  • Crane School of Music, SUNY Postdam

  • Middle Tennessee State University

  • Anderson University

  • Las Positas College

  • Mission College

  • SAE Institute (Nashville)

  • McGeorge School of Law

Conferences

  • Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association

  • JEN - Jazz Educators Network

  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music

  • Society for American Music

  • Music Library Association

  • Jazz and Race Conference (UK)

  • College Music Society

  • National Association of Music Merchandisers (NAMM)