Lecturer

College

College of the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Department

Department of Music

Phone

Location

Music M37

Trombone

James (Jamie) Dubberly, hailing from Brunswick, GA, has established a reputation as one of the top trombonists, educators, and arrangers in northern California. He currently serves on the faculties of University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, and California State University, Stanislaus as a lecturer. He holds a Bachelor's degree in music from the University of Georgia, and a Master's degree in music from The Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford). As a trombonist , he has recorded, and/or performed with a wide range of artists, including Sheila E, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Luis Enrique, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Emerson String Quartet, Bobby Caldwell, John Santos, Greg Tardy, Fred Wesley, and touring orchestras for productions of Grease, West Side Story, Fiddler on The Roof, Five Guys named Moe ( U.S. and international tours), among others. In 2014, Jamie earned a Grammy award for his participation in the Pacific Mambo Orchestra debut album ( best tropical latin album), and continues to perform with that group as well as the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, Somos el Son, Edgardo Cambon and Candela, Cabanijazz Project, Mazacote, Realistic Orchestra, and a host of other groups in northern California. He also serves as principal trombone for the Opera Modesto Orchestra, and leads his own highly acclaimed latin jazz group “Orquesta Dharma”. Jamie also has been active as a jazz clinician and adjudicator, for many jazz educational festivals throughout the Northern California area.