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RALPH BOWEN
Saxophone
Selected Performances
- Avery Fisher Hall (New York City)
- Berlin Jazz Festival (Berlin, Germany)
- Bern Jazz Festival (Bern, Switzerland)
- Birdland (New York City)
- Blue Note (New York City; Osaka and Tokyo, Japan)
- Carnegie Hall (New York City)
- Catalina's (Los Angeles, California)
- Club Il Classico (Rome, Italy)
- Cork Jazz Festival, (Cork. Ireland)
- Fashion (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Georges (Toronto, Canada)
- Half Note (Athens, Greece)
- Helsinki Jazz Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
- Iridium (New York City)
- Jazz Standard (New York City)
- Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.)
- Kimbals (San Francisco, California)
- Kool Jazz Festival (Richmond, VA)
- Lucerne Jazz Festival (Lucerne, Switzerland)
- Madrid Jazz Festival (Madrid, Spain)
- Monmartre (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Montreal Jazz Festival (Montreal, Canada)
- Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland)
- Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival (Tokyo, Japan)
- Munich Symphony Hall (Munich, Germany)
- National Library (Ottawa, Canada)
- Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, RI)
- New Morning (Paris, France)
- North Sea Jazz Festival (the Hague, Holland)
- Rio de Janeiro Jazz Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Smalls (New York City)
- Steinway Hall (New York City)
- Sweet Basil's (New York City)
- Sweet Rhythms (New York City)
- Symphony Space (New York City)
- Teatro Metropolitan (Catania, Italy)
- Village Vanguard (New York City)
- Visiones (New York City)
Performances With
- Art Blakey Big Band
- David Baker
- Kenny Barron
- Gary Bartz
- Jim Beard
- Peter Bernstein
- Andy Bey
- Walter Bishop Jr.
- Brian Blade
- Michael Brecker
- Calgary Olympic Big Band
- Carnegie Hall Jazz Band
- Michel Camilo
- Michel Camilo Big Band
- Benny Carter
- Ron Carter
- Mino Cenilu
- Dennis Chambers
- Bill O'Connell
- Avishai Cohen
- Stanley Cowell
- Kenny Drew Jr.
- Jon Faddis
- Charles Fambrough
- Joe Ford
- Kenny Garrett
- Al Gray
- Johnny Griffin
- Stephon Harris
- Antonio Hart
- Jon Herington
- Teramasu Hino
- Freddie Hubbard
- Bob Hurst
- Anthony Jackson
- Hank Jones
- Stanley Jordan
- Branford Marsalis
- Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass
- Bob Mintzer Big Band
- Charnett Moffat
- Ted Moses Big Band
- Lewis Nash
- Sam Newsome
- Ralph Peterson
- Tom Pierson Big Band
- Trudy Pitts
- Lou Rawls
- Paquito D'Rivera
- Claudio Roditi
- Rene Rosnes
- Maria Schnieder Big Band
- Shirley Scott
- Horace Silver
- Marvin "Smitty" Smith
- James Spaulding
- Bill Stewart
- Rick Tait Big Band
- Don Thompson
- Stanley Turrentine
- Chu Cho Valdez
- Vangard Jazz Band
- Jeff Watts
- Tim Warfield
- Lenny White
- Tony Williams
Awards
- Inaugural "Brick," Philadelphia Clef Club for the Performing Arts, 1995.
For opening-day performance with George Benson & Trudy Pitts.
- Juno Award-Canada, 1994.
Best Mainstream Album: Free Trade - Free Trade.
- Outstanding Service to Jazz Education, National Association of Jazz Educators, 1988.
- Silver Disk Award, Japan, 1986.
Best Jazz Album: OTB - Out of the Blue
Commissions
- "Little Miss B" Commissioned by "The Commission Project," Rochester NY and Anthony Branker-Sons
of Sound Music for the Princeton University Jazz Ensemble; premiered May, 2006.
- NJ-IAJE Junior Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 4, 2001.
- NJ-IAJE High School Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 4, 2001.
- NJ-IAJE Junior Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 2, 1999.
- NJ-IAJE High School Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 2, 1999.
Teaching
- Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1990-.;
Associate Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Ensembles; Professor of Jazz Theory and Jazz Saxophone.
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2000-;
Instructor of saxophone.
- Mount Royal College Conservatory Summer Jazz Workshop, Calgary, Alberta, 2005 and 2006. Guest Clinician.
Education
- Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1989-91.
Major: Classical Performance
Flute Studies under Dr. James S. Scott and Robert Dick
Masters in Music, 1991. -
- Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1985-89.
Major: Jazz and Classical Performance
Bachelors of Music, 1989.
Saxophone and Flute, Summa cum Laude
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1984-1986.
Concentrations:
Jazz Composition, Improvisation, Theory, and History (under tutelage of David N. Baker);
Classical Saxophone (with Eugene Rousseau and Daniel Duffaette).
Vist Ralph at ralphbowen.com
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