Discipline: Music Composition

Eugene Uman

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Brattleboro, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Eugene Uman is director of the Vermont Jazz Center. He is a pianist, a composer, and an educator who has encouraged hundreds of students to realize their musical dreams. Uman’s compositions merge the vocabulary of jazz with the edge of rock and the inspiration of Colombian folkloric rhythms.

Studios

Monday Music

Eugene Uman worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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