Otis Murphy
Associate Professor of Music (Saxophone)
Contact Information:
omurphy
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(omurphy@indiana.edu)
Music Addition, MA117
Department
Education
- D.M., Indiana University, 2006
- Prix de Perfectionnement, Conservatoire National Régional de Musique de Cergy-Pontoise, 2000
- M.M., Indiana University, 1998
- B.M.E., University of Georgia, 1995
Biography
Otis Murphy's primary teachers include Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Eugene Rousseau, and Kenneth Fischer.
Professor Murphy has received numerous awards and prizes, including Second Prize in the Adolphe Sax International Saxophone Competition in Belgium in 1998; Third Prize in the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition in France in 1996; First Prize in the Heida Hermanns Young Artist Competition; and Second Prize in the Saint Louis Symphony Young Artist Competition.
Professor Murphy received a Fulbright grant for study in France, and is in demand as a soloist and clinician worldwide. He makes frequent appearances throughout the United States and performs and teaches classes in France, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and Belgium.
He was invited to be a soloist at the 12th World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, Quebec; a guest soloist with the U.S. Navy Band at the 26th Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium in Washington, D.C.; a soloist at the 7th British Saxophone Congress in Wales; a soloist at the 2003 New England Saxophone Symposium; and at the the 2003 International Saxophone Chamber Music Festival in Faenza, Italy. His debut compact disc is titled Memories of Dinant, and he is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician.