- Associate Professor, Jacobs School of Music
- Chair,
Department of
Woodwinds
Education:
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D.M.
in Saxophone Performance, Indiana University, 1999
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M.M.
in Saxophone Performance, Indiana University, 1991
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B.M.
in Jazz Studies, Indiana University, 1988
Background:
Thomas Walsh is Associate Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington and is a Yamaha Performing Artist. An active performer of jazz and classical music, he performs regularly with the Louisville Orchestra and he has appeared as a solo recitalist, in chamber groups, jazz small groups, big bands, and Broadway shows. He has presented concerts and workshops across the United States, as well as in Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, and Costa Rica. He performs regularly at conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and performed at the World Saxophone Congress in Montreal (2000) and Minneapolis (2003). In addition, Walsh has published articles in Jazz Research 1998, Saxophone Symposium, and NASA Update. His doctoral document is entitled "A Performer's Guide to the Saxophone Music of Bernhard Heiden."
In 2002, Walsh released his first jazz CD, New LIfe, on the RIAX label. His first classical Saxophone disc, Shaking the Pumpkin, was released in 1998 on RIAX. About Shaking the Pumpkin, Saxophone Journal writes, "Do not let this CD slide through your hands. . . . Thomas Walsh is an exceptional performer and an outstanding saxophonist. . . . It makes no difference which saxophone is in his hands, they are all equal clay to his touch." He has also recorded with the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, the Dominic Spera Big Band, the eugene Rousseau Big Band, and jazz vocalists Wanda Stafford and Janiece Jaffe.
Walsh is on the faculty of the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops. He has also taught at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Purdue University, and Millikin University. Walsh holds Doctor of Music degrees in Saxophone Performance and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Indiana University where he studied with distinguished classical saxophonist Eugene Rousseau and renowned jazz educator David Baker.
Contact Information:
(812) 855-4446
tpwalsh AT
indiana DOT
edu
Music Addition, MA168
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