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Gabe Condon has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, and Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. He is a YoungArts Silver Award winner as well as a three-time Downbeat Magazine Student Music Award recipient. In 2022, he received a DAAD German Academic Exchange Service grant to perform and conduct research in Berlin, Germany. Condon’s research focuses on the intersection of Constructivist learning theory and jazz pedagogy in the context of European Sinti communities.

Previously, Condon taught as the instructor of jazz guitar at Washington State University, and as a lecturer of jazz studies at Ithaca College. He earned his B.M. and M.M. in jazz and contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music, and his Doctor of Musical Arts in jazz and contemporary improvisation from the University of Michigan.

Research Interests

Jazz, guitar, composition, jazz pedagogy, jazz pedagogy in European Sinti communities

Distinctions

DAAD German Academic Exchange Grant Recipient, 2022
University of Michigan Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Studies Grant, 2022
Best Large Ensemble Arrangement Award, Downbeat Magazine’s Student Music Awards, 2015
Raymond and Maxine Schirmer Award in Jazz Composition, Eastman School of Music, 2015
Wilson Center Guitar Competition Winner, Jazz Category, 2014

Recordings and Performances

Performances
  • Concert of Roma and Sinti Jazz, Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany, 2022 
  • Accompanist for the U.S. Presidential Scholars, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,  Washington, D.C., 2017 and 2018 
  • Guitar Chair for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Pops featuring Megan Hilty, Kodak Hall  at Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York, 2015 
Recordings
  • Guest Solo performance on Greg Yasinitsky’s YAZZ Band: New Normal, CD on Origin Records, 2021

Professional Affiliations

Jazz Education Network
College Music Society

Appointed to the Faculty

2024

Educational Background

D.M.A., University of Michigan
M.M., Eastman School of Music
B.M., Eastman School of Music

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