Bill Dobbins

Rochester, New York

BILL DOBBINS is professor of jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music, where he currently teaches jazz composing and arranging while directing the Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Eastman Studio Orchestra. From 1994 through 2002 Mr. Dobbins was principal director of the WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany, where from 1998 to 2002, he also headed the jazz studies department at the Hochschule für Musik.