Results for "Saxophone"

Roberto Ottaviano

Born: December 21, 1957

Roberto Ottaviano is an Italian saxophonist.

He started extremely young as a self-taught percussion and flute player, but at the age of five he began to take clarinet classes at the Conservatory of Bari, Italy. Influenced by {{m: Lester Young = 11573}} and {{m: John Coltrane = 5851}}, he later chose the saxophone. After studying classical saxophone in Perugia with Federico Mondelci, between the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s he attended several workshops taught by {{m: Evan Parker = 10117}} and {{m: Jimmy Giuffre = 7059}}, undertook harmony and classical composition studies with Walter Boncompagni and attended courses held by Giacomo Manzoni and Luigi Nono. Thanks to a fortuitous encounter with {{m: Steve Lacy = 8532}}, he focused on the soprano saxophone. During a stay in the United States, he studied jazz composition and arrangements under {{m: Ran Blake = 5065}}, {{m: Bill Russo = 144366}} and {{m: George Russell = 3978}}.

Matthew Levy

Matthew Levy has been hailed by the Saxophone Journal as “a complete virtuoso of the tenor saxophone” and by the New York Times for his “energetic and enlivening” performances. A recipient of composition fellowships from the Independence Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he has scored four motion pictures, including PBS’s Diary of a City Priest, featured at the Sundance Film Festival. His music is highlighted on three PRISM recordings on Koch and innova; he has also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Tzadik, and Grammavision; collaborated with a host of choreographers/dance companies, among them Peter Sparling and Scrap; and appeared as a guest artist with the Detroit Symphony and counter)induction

Lenny Pierro

Adam Siegel

Alex Weitz

Saxophonist and composer Alex Weitz began his career in Arizona as a member of the award-winning Tucson Jazz Institute Ellington Band. Alex then went on to complete both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he gained invaluable mentorship and experience as a member of the Henry Mancini Institute Jazz Septet directed by Terence Blanchard. Alex has appeared at prestigious venues including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Monterey Jazz Festival, Birdland Jazz Club, The Velvet Note, the Banff Center, the Arsht Center, the Telluride Jazz Festival, and the Jazz Showcase

Adam Harris

Born: June 7, 1986

Adam Harris is an Oregon-based jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and teacher. At 28 years old, he is already establishing a reputation for himself as a powerful voice in the Pacific Northwest music scene. In 2004, he moved from Oregon to Seattle, WA where he began studying at Cornish College of the Arts. While at Cornish, Adam had the privilege of working with many of the area's most well known jazz musicians, which included Julian Priester, Jovino Santos Neto, Jay Thomas, Jim Knapp and Denney Goodhew. After graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Music from Cornish, Adam attended the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA, where he earned his Master's of Music degree in December, 2011

Paul Corn

Lee Odom

Eyal Hai

Born: July 8, 1985

Born and raised In Holon Israel, Eyal started to play classical music on the piano at the age of 5. When he was 11 years old Eyal picked up the Alto Saxophone, the instrument that introduced him to jazz music and eventually brought him into the Untied States. Eyal has been playing as a soloist from a very young age in different orchestras, jazz big- bands and funk and rock bands, such as the famous Israeli funk band “Portrait”, the “Tel- Aviv Big Band” and “Holon Big Band”, as well as the jazz sextet “Babetov” which he led. After completing one year at Rimon School of music where he was awarded “Jazz player of the year”, Eyal moved to Boston to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music as a scholarship student

Tori Freestone