received both his B.A and his M.A. in Piano
Performance from UNC-Greensboro. He is currently completing
his doctoral studies in Music Education at Teachers College,
Columbia University. His Dissertation is entitled “Alternative
Strategies for Teaching Music Appreciation” wherein he explores
the application of active music-making philosophies in the
general music classroom. In addition to Music Appreciation, Mr.
Fox teaches piano, jazz piano, piano proficiency, music
fundamentals, and music theory. He has been a full-time faculty
member at Greensboro College since 1996. He is currently
Coordinator of the Fine Arts Division. Coordinator of the Fine
Arts Division.
Mr. Fox performs throughout the Southeast as a classical and jazz pianist. Most recently he has
been active as a composer and an improviser. On a 2003 faculty recital he performed the world
premiere of “How the River Took Daughtry McLamb,” a song cycle for soprano, cello and piano,
as well as several of his piano preludes. Fox founded and curates the Greensboro College Music
Department’s Improvising Music Series, which features guest artists and local musicians performing
improvisational collaborations. Some of the notable performers on this series have been Frank
Gratkowski, Martin Klapper, Numinous Opposum, Hannes Loeschel, Tara Flandreau, Carrie Schull
and Eugene Chadbourne. In April of 2004 he premiered the original composition “Quasi-Improvised
Sonata for Banjo and Piano” with 
Eugene Chadbourne on banjo.
Mr. Fox is the pianist in the Greg Hyslop Trio, the Atlantic Jazz Orchestra (formerly the US Airways Jazz Orchestra), the All-Stars, and the faculty jazz group Seven Steps, which he co-founded with Neill Clegg. As an improviser he has collaborated most recently with Eugene Chadbourne, Ian Davis, Dave Menestres and Frank Gratkowski. Fox is the host pianist at the weekly Green Bean jam sessions in downtown
Greensboro and performs every other Sunday at Tate Street Coffee House with a rotating group.
