Collin Felter is A Multi-instrumentalist and music theorist

Collin Felter found his initial musical identity cutting his teeth in the Nashville scene as a session trombonist and guitarist performing with the likes of Sheryl Crow, CeCe Winans, Avenue Beat, and countless others. Felter remains an active performing artist now as an active member in the LA jazz/funk scene. In tandem with his role as a sideman, Felter’s compositional work includes two albums released under his name and a recent single release with Jacob Mann. Alongside his career in music performance, Felter remains dedicated to academia. After earning a B.M. in Commercial Music at Belmont University and an M.M. in Jazz Performance at the University of Denver, Felter has reached the final stages of a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Music at the University of California, Irvine where his dissertation examines the historic, abstract, and pragmatic functions of pentatonicism in jazz. Felter’s scholarship centers on the analysis of jazz, commercial/popular music, and funk while situating these genres in their cultural intersections. It is through the combination of these academic and performance ventures that Felter seeks to create a holistic sense of musical identity while dedicating his life to pedagogy in university settings.