Jeremy Long, SRU assistant professor of music, has been named featured guest artist for the 2008 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference at the University of South Carolina in April.
NASA is an organization for professional performers, university professors, public school teachers, students at all levels and others in the U.S. and Canada with an interest in saxophone.
Long was one of five professionals selected from a pool of applicants. “I submitted a proposal along with my recording of “Lover Man,” done last summer with the SRU Jazz Ensemble, and they asked me to participate,” Long said. Long wrote the big band arrangement.
He will be featured at the April 16 evening concert with the Left Bank Big Band, the premier jazz ensemble at the USC School of Music. He will perform his arrangement for jazz ensemble and another piece composed by Bert Ligon, director of jazz studies at USC.
“This is really the main conference for professionals involved with the saxophone, and it is definitely great to have been selected,” Long said.
The conference includes performances, lectures, panel discussions and master classes throughout the day.
Long, who joined the SRU faculty last August, will also present a recital featuring some of his original compositions.
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