


Cornelius Young, Director
A native of Mississippi, Cornelius Young has an extensive music background starting with a variety of ensembles in high school including jazz band where he was a jazz pianist and continued through college where he studied as a tuba major at the Univ. of Southern Mississippi. During his time there, he continued his jazz studies and following graduate work at Eastern Michigan University, he moved to the DMV area to pursue a teaching career. It is then that he joined DCDD’s Jazz Band for the first time as its jazz pianist and also had opportunities to participate in the Southern Maryland Jazz Orchestra, the Solid Brass Jazz Band, & the jazz trio, Shaken not Stirred.
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