BIO
“Seasoned, articulate playing and thoughtful compositions.””
“A collection that builds on the foundation laid by jazz fusion titans like Beck and McLaughlin, then takes everything one step further.”
“Dustin Hofsess is an artist of the highest form.
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The “Formal” Bio
Dustin Hofsess is a freelance musician and teacher living in Boone, NC. For over 20 years, Dustin has balanced his talents of performing, recording, producing and teaching lessons. He has many years of national touring experience and he currently performs all over the Southeast with a variety of groups.
An engaging and present teacher, he was Instructor of Guitar & Bass (Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Contemporary Music) at Davidson College for over a decade. He has helped hundreds of students by teaching thousands of private lessons in-person and online.
He has been invited to play on and engineered hundreds of recording projects with prominent artists including Jim Brock and Tim Cashion. In addition, he has engineered 5 albums of his own projects, including Green Light and Automatic Chi. Dustin was invited to compose 4 songs for the soundtrack to the film Walking the West, which won Best Documentary at the 2002 California Independent Film Festival. His recent solo recording, Short Stories, featured his own compositions with a top notch band including George Porter Jr (The Meters) and Jim Brock (Indigo Girls, Joe Walsh, Victor Wooten, Branford Marsalis).
Dustin studied music as a young man with Tim Murray at The Guitar Workshop. Motivated to learn and grow as a musician and as a human being, he continued to perfect his craft by studying Classical Guitar under Mike Mosley and Charles Vaughn at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Tomo Fujita (former teacher of John Mayer) at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Additionally, he studied Jazz Guitar with Oz Noy, Jim Campilongo, and Joel Harrison in NYC.
He has played with some of the best musicians of his era, in a wide variety of styles, including John Scofield, Grover Washington Jr, Darius Rucker, Edwin McCain, Steve Cole, Four80East, and Jeff Kashiwa (The Ripingtons). He has opened for James Brown, Joe Walsh, Charlie Hunter, Oteil Burbridge and many others. He has traveled the country playing music in thousands of venues big and small; the Knitting Factory in NYC, DBA in New Orleans, the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco and SOHO in Santa Barbara, even a stint for the Ringling Brothers Circus.
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