Resume Kevin A. Zoernig

Kevin A. Zoernig
1003 5th St.
Las Vegas, NM 87701
505 699 6624

EDUCATION

B.A. (Honors, Phi Beta Kappa) Grinnell College 1981

Advanced Studies – Black Music Division, Bennington College 1980 – 82

Advanced Studies – private studies with composer/theorist George Russell
1986 – 88

AWARDS

National Merit Scholar 1976

Bill Evans Jazz Piano Scholarship 1984

New Mexico Music Awards – participant in over 20 since 1988 including 20 nominations and 7
awards in 2016 alone

Grammy 2006 (significant participation in Sacred Ground – various artists
-which won in Native American category)

AS AN EDUCATOR

Music adjunct Grinnell College 1976 – 80

Music adjunct College of Santa Fe 1983 – 88

Founder and Director Santa Fe School of Contemporary Music 1987

Part – time Music Faculty College of Santa Fe 1988 – 92

Full -time Music Faculty, founder and director of Contemporary Music Pro-
gram College of Santa Fe 1992 – 1997

Summer Program Music Instructor Bennington College 1994 – 95

Music Adjunct (coordinator of Music Improv project) United World College
2001 – present

Part – time Music Faculty and or Music Adjunct New Mexico Highlands
University 2009 – present

Part – time Music Instructor Rio Gallinas Charter School 2010 – 2016

Music Ops Rural Youth Summer Music Camp Curriculum Consultant and Faculty Member
2018

AS A PERFORMER

New York City shows with Future Song Ensemble 1986,87

Canadian Tour with songwriter Ferron 1989

Premiere of opera “The Society Architect” (Wiener/Gordon) Berlin and Bonn
West Germany 1999/2000

Three tours in Holland and Belgium with songwriter Boris McCutcheon 2008
through 2013

Regular shows throughout Northern New Mexico with award – winning ensembles.

March 2019 residency at Grinnell College as Music Director for a Shakespeare
production

March 2019 duet concert with former Nina Simone music director Al Schackman, La
Posada Hotel, Winslow, AZ

Kevin Zoernig has also performed with Nat Adderley, Pharaoh Sanders,
Bob Moses, Eddie Harris, Rita Coolidge, The Rockets, Ferron, and many others

RECORDINGS (selected)

“#23” original compositions 1995

“Double Echo” original solo piano 1996

“Blue Z” original experimental 2002

“Walela” (Rita Coolidge et al) 1999

“Sacred Ground” various artists (grammy award) 2006

“Riding in the Dark” original songs 2012

“Out of the Woods” solo piano 2016

Five albums with Boris McCutcheon since 2005

Plus over 50 other albums as producer or keyboardist.