Bill Boris

Bill Boris directs the Pop Rock Showcase Ensemble, Pop Jazz Fusion Ensemble, Jazz Combo D and teaches Jazz Guitar. He attended Berklee College of Music and Notre Dame University. In 2009, Bill was also an ensemble director and guitar instructor at the Popakademei in Mannheim, Germany.

Bill released his debut CD "Hold Back" in 1999. He has recorded or performed with Charles Earland, David "Fathead" Newman, Arthur Prysock, Tony Monaco, Irene Reid, Eric Alexander, Oscar Seaton, Lisa Ono and Robert Irving III. As a member of the "Mike Frost Project", Bill was the guitarist on "Comin' Straight At You" which was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. He has performed at the South Shore Jazz Festival in Chicago, the Kaunas Jazz Festival in Lithuania, the Barbados Jazz Festival and the Szczecin Jazz Festival in Poland. He has also played at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago and Catalina's in Los Angeles.

Bill was the musical director for Beehive, a musical review about the 60's which played in Chicago, Miami, the East Coast and toured Japan. In the rock and pop world, he has worked as sideman with Bo Diddley, Little Anthony, Ben E. King, the Fifth Dimension, Spencer Davis, Mary Wells, Dee Clark, Del Shannon, Ima Sumac, Leslie Gore, the Shirelles and the Drifters. Bill's compositions are licensed by Getty Images and have played on MTV in the United States and China. He has also done session work on jingles, music for television and recording projects for various artists.