Jon Ozment
Lecturer, Jazz Piano
Jazz Studies
2121 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
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Jon Ozment is an active jazz performer, composer and educator living in Washington, D.C. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Jazz Piano at the University of Maryland where he earned his Masters Degree in Jazz Studies in 2004. Ozment has taught at American University, the Jazz Academy of Music and the Washington Jazz Arts Institute. He has performed with artists including Bobby Hutcherson, Jon Faddis, Marlena Shaw and Maceo Parker, and recorded with artists such as Buck Hill, Peter Fraize and Davey Yarborough. Ozment studied jazz with Ron Elliston, Chris Vadala, and Paul Bley, and classical piano with Stewart Gordon.