David Charles Adjunct Instructor World Music 172 Howard Hall Tel: 994-5762 david.charles1@myportal.montana.edu

David Charles teaches World Music and Knowledge & Community as an Adjunct Instructor at Montana State University.  He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in composition and theory from the University of South Carolina, where he studied jazz piano and composition with Bert Ligon, composition with Dick Goodwin, and piano with John Williams.  He earned a Master of Music degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied under Stephen Slawek (who is an acknowledged disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar) and the late Gerard Béhague.  While at UT, he also studied composition with Donald Grantham and was the keyboardist for the Afropop band Easy Motion Tourist.  After moving to Bozeman, he performed with jazz guitarist Leif Routman as The Blackmore Duo.  He has taught piano privately to young people and adults since 1997 and continues to perform locally as a freelance jazz pianist.