Pete Carney

Pete Carney's jazz group Orange Alert headlined at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, Milwaukee's Jazz in the Park, Halo-London, and was the first American ensemble to be featured at the Aberdeen Jazz Festival in Scotland. His albums, Orange Alert and Redline Grooves have also been featured on NPR Electro Lounge, NBC, and BBC.[6] Before launching Orange Alert, Carney traveled with soul singer Otis Clay and performed at jazz festivals in Italy, France, Germany, Norway, Finland, Sweden, England, and Germany. Carney’s composition Redline Groove, was lifted anonymously for the DePaul Basketball Band who played it during March Madness at Madison Square Garden.[7]

In 2009 he began working on a new method for listening to music, frustrated with the traditional music history textbooks that were available, Carney worked for two years to create a new educational system based on Socrates’ ancient method of continuous questioning, which he called Interactive Listening.[8] A month after its release in 2012, Interactive Listening was named by Apple Inc. as the #1 Editor’s Choice out of 22,000 titles. Three months later it became the first music education method to be featured on Apple’s website, where it stayed for 2 years. Since then Dr. Carney has been a featured speaker at The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, The Texas Music Educators Association, ABC, and NPR. Interactive Listening is now taught in hundreds of schools around the world including the University of North Carolina, Florida International University, all of Duval County, and The United Nations International School in New York. Carney was recently invited to give a TED Talk on Designing Curiosity at TEDx Jacksonville. His TED Talk based on Interactive Listening was broadcast live to a global audience of 15,000 viewers. In 2016, the state of Florida adopted Carney’s self-published method as the official state music textbook for high school and middle school.[7]

Currently, Dr. Pete Carney is the Director of Jazz Studies at the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota in Bradenton, Florida. Before coming to SCF, Dr. Carney taught jazz and classical music at Saint Xavier University, and The City Colleges of Chicago while performing as a saxophonist and directing the Chicago All-City Jazz Ensemble. Dr. Carney has earned two degrees from the University of Michigan with degrees in classical saxophone and music composition. He studied with William Albright, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Donald Sinta, and Glenn Watkins. Turning to Jazz, he studied at the University of Miami and completed his Master’s in Jazz at Florida International University. Dr. Pete Carney received his Doctorate in Jazz from The University of Illinois. Recently he conducted the University of Illinois Concert Jazz Band and Orchestra at The Jazz Education Network Conference in Louisville KY.[7]

• Pete Carney and Orange Alert official site
• Interactive Listening
• Peter Carney TEDx Jacksonville
• Pete Carney on iTunes
• Peter Carney on YouTube