Edward Pias, DMA
Lecturer
- edward.pias@cn-sportgoods.com
Email for Appointment by Zoom
Ed teaches a variety of Music Appreciation courses as part of the CLASS Department
at NMT.
In college, Ed majored in Jazz Percussion and World Music, and holds a Doctor of Musical
Arts from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, a Master of Fine Arts in Music
from Cal Arts in Santa Clarita, CA, and a Bachelors of Music from the Berklee School
of Music in Boston, MA.
As a student at Cal Arts, Ed played drum set in workshop concerts with visiting artists
including John Cage, John Addams, Branford Marsalis, Leroy Jenkins, Dewey Redman,
Henry Threadgil, Julius Hemphill, and Andrew Hill. In Seattle, while working towards
his doctoral degree, Ed performed and recorded with David Byrne, Wayne Horvitz, Eyvind
Kang, Tim Young, Lori Goldston, Stuart Dempster, William O Smith, and Francois Houle.
In 2000 Ed was a United States Peace Corp Volunteer in the People's Republic of Bangladesh,
and continued his music practice and study at the Allaudin Khan School of Music in
Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh. In 2003, Ed was awarded a travel grant to study and record
North Indian percussion compositions in New Delhi, India.
In 2010 Ed began learning the American Indian Flute with inspration and informal studies
thru phone conversations with Kevin Locke (Tokeya Inajin). Ed currently continues
his study online thru the Horizons Flute School under the direction of Jonny Lipford.
Ed has performed on his flutes as part of the 2018 Alamo Wellness Days events, the
2023 and 2024 Native American Heritage Day events at New Mexico Tech, and various
events on the Tech Campus.
Ed is always happy to talk about music, or play his flutes around campus! Feel free
to email him at edward.pias@cn-sportgoods.com.
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