Joe Anderies

Joe attended Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University) and North Texas State University where he majored in jazz studies and flute performance later graduating from Metropolitan State University of Denver with degrees in Flute Performance and Music Education. Subsequently he obtained his masters degree at the University of Colorado in Music Education and Saxophone.
Concluding 25 years of teaching in Douglas County and Denver Public Schools, Joe recently retired in order to concentrate on his performing, music publishing, and clinician initiatives, and working to create more opportunities for young people to have quality music education.
Joe’s past performance and recording experiences include his international group IMAGES as well as collaborations with Rob Mullins, Ron Miles, Chuck Lamb, Eric Gunnison, Hugh Ragin, Paul Romaine, Kenwood Dennard, Bennie Maupin, Larry Coryell and Nestor Torres. Joe continues to lead groups and produce jazz concerts in the Denver area and around the State.
During his music education career Joe has worked with hundreds of elementary students developing the “Music Beyond Borders” curriculum that features an overlay of technology assisted jazz instruction, call and response improvisation work, and professional mentor integration. He has expanded these concepts in his years teaching middle school and with high school students in his jazz camp experience and his teaching in the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts. Joe has also worked as adjunct professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver and has led jazz clinics for both students and educators at numerous conventions and colleges.
Joe has served as Colorado president of several jazz and music education organizations and currently is devoting time to help young people entering the education field. He is also a current board member of El Sistema Colorado, an arm of the ground breaking music education initiative that puts instruments and instruction in the hands of disadvantaged youth.
In the past year, Joe has returned to teaching music along with his performance schedule. He is a former faculty member at the Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette where he teaches band (grades 5-12) as well as advisement and experiential travel learning. Currently Joe does extensive substitute teaching, summer jazz camps and special even concert shows.