Keith Waters

Associate Professor of Music Theory

Email: Watersk@colorado.edu
Office Location: Room N127, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-492-8417
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

Keith Waters is Associate Professor of Music Theory. He is the author of Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger (Ashgate Press).  Together with Henry Martin he is the co-author of Jazz: The First Hundred Years, which was awarded the best first-edition humanities title for 2005 by Thomson Schirmer Publications, and is now in its second edition. He has published articles on topics related jazz improvisation and analysis, and has presented his research at the Sorbonne (Paris), Amsterdam Conservatory (Netherlands), Musikhochschule Winterthur/Zurich (Switzerland), Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel Switzerland), the University of Melbourne (Australia), New England Conservatory of Music, and at national conferences at the Society for Music Theory. He received a PhD in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Masters degree in jazz piano from the New England Conservatory of Music. As a jazz pianist, he has performed with James Moody, Eddie Harris, Bobby Hutcherson, Sheila Jordan, and Chris Connor, and has played throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia.