Denson Angulo
Adjunct Instructor of Bass

densonangulo@myspace.com
Denson Angulo

Denson Angulo is one of the most sought-after bassists in the Salt Lake City metro area. With a Masters of
Music degree, and skills in an abundance of music styles, Denson has worked extensively as an educator
and free-lance professional playing electric bass, acoustic jazz, and classical double bass. A sample of his
credentials include international tours to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, the United Kingdom,
Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Italy; and performances with jazz greats Bob
Mintzer, Bob Berg, Randy Brecker, Victor Wooten, Conrad Herwig, Nicholas Payton, Ed Calle, Madeline
Eastman, Bob Shepard, Jamie Abersold, Javon Jackson, Mark Whitfield, Terreon Gully, Wycliffe Gordon,
Brandon Fields, Denise Donatelli, Eldar Djangarov, Dennis DiBlasio, Kathy Kosins, Tom Scott, Shelly Berg,
Bobby Shew, Gregg Bissonette, Carl Allen and many others.

As a classical musician, he has recorded for ESPN, ABC, NBC television, DreamWorks Pictures, and LDS
motion pictures, and performed solo bass repertoire with  the Honolulu Symphony. As an educator he has
maintained private bass studios for over 15 years. He has traveled the inter-mountain west as an adjudicator
and clinician and has been a full-time professor at Brigham Young University Idaho coordinating their
Classical/Jazz bass studio, running their jazz combo program, and teaching jazz history. Currently, Denson is
free-lancing in the Salt Lake City metro area, an adjunct bass instructor and Utah Valley University, the jazz
improv/bass instructor at Snow College, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor (of jazz bass) at the University of
Utah.



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