Wes Case

Born in California and raised in Texas, Wes Case picked up piano at age 8 and the guitar and bass at 12 to began his career teaching and performing in 2010. Upon graduating from UNT’s jazz program in 2015, he began performing and traveling throughout Latin America, studying Uruguay’s folk music Candombe in Montevideo, Quechua (an Andean language) while in Peru, as well the rich world of rhythm and guitar with Filó Machado(of Djavan) in Brazil, and toured Australia, Mexico, and Europe. He recorded and released his debut album during a trip back home in 2018. Now re-established in Texas, he earned his masters degree at UNT where he taught private lessons and conducted the guitar ensemble, toured with the One O'clock lab band and is an active bandleader and sideman in DFW.

With a profound respect for musical traditions of a wide variety, he is very encouraging to students’ exploration of the styles and repertoires of their interests as well as coaxing their creative side to integrate those influences in their own way via a path of either improvising or composing, per the students' preference. Musical expression can be a small, concrete way of being kind to yourself, and Wes believes that beyond being a source of endless wonder, music provides us invaluable training for creative problem-solving and emotional development.

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