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 continued his passion for performance during his time in Denver and now in the LA jazz/funk space. Felter has ventured into the territory of artist releasing two albums, CF and Phases, under his own name as composer/performer. Alongside his career in music performance, Felter earned a B.M. in Commercial Music at Belmont University and an M.M. in Jazz Performance at the University of Denver, and he has now dedicated a part of his life to music education through jazz theory with aims of a future where music academia is accessible, diverse, and pragmatic. These goals are manifesting during his tenure in the Music History and Theory Ph.D. program at UC Irvine as Felter hones his scholarly writing with a specialty in 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.