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Department
Music and Music Education
Areas of Expertise

Aural Skills, Jazz History, Rock Ensemble

Education
Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi

Jeremy Kellett

Adjunct Instructor

Dr. Jeremy Kellett is a musician from Hattiesburg, Mississippi where he received his Bachelor’s Degree from William Carey University and his Master’s Degree and Ph.D. from The University of Southern Mississippi. He serves as adjunct faculty and artist in residence in guitar in the Department of Music at Hartwick College where he teaches aural skills, rock ensemble, guitar lessons, and jazz history. His dissertation, “Student Perspectives on the Music-Learning Culture in a Competitive High School Music Program in the United States,” explores reasons why students may choose to participate or not participate in musicking at the high school level based on the music-learning culture created by faculty, administrators, and communities; particularly in schools that are considered musically competitive.

As a classically trained guitarist, Dr. Kellett has performed throughout the Southeastern United States as a member of multiple ensembles and as a solo artist, in venues including the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum and the Grand Ole Opry. Throughout his career, he has taught aural skills, rock ensemble, guitar methods and private lessons, music theory, world music, music history, and jazz history. He has also served as director of middle school and high school concert and show choirs.

As a music education scholar, Dr. Kellett’s research interests include music-learning cultures, the roots of American music, artist connections to music education, music curricula, non-traditional methods in music education, sociology in music, choral techniques, and guitar techniques.