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Tracy Heavner |
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Dr. Heavner serves on the faculty at the University of South Alabama as a professor of saxophone, clarinet, music education and director of jazz studies. In the area of jazz studies, he directs the University of South Alabama Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo, teaches jazz improvisation in the USA Community Arts Program and at the Gulf Coast Jazz Camp. In addition, he teaches a large private studio of middle and high school saxophonists, flutists and clarinetists who consistently place in the top chairs of honor bands, all-state band and orchestra ensembles. Many of them also perform in the Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Dr. Heavner earned a doctorate degree in music education with a secondary emphasis in jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado (1995) and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from Appalachian State University in 1983 and 1985, respectively.
Dr. Heavner’s performance styles include both classical and jazz. He is a Cannonball Performing Artist on saxophone and performs with both the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra as Principal. Recent classical performances include the World Saxophone Congress XIII, the 2002 Biennial Conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance and recitals at Carnegie Hall, Florida State University, Furman University, the Eastern Shore Concert Artist Series, and with the Goliard Ensemble of New York.
In the areas of jazz and commercial music, Dr. Heavner has performed as a soloist with many well-known celebrities such as Natalie Cole, Smokey Robinson, Vince Gill, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Regis Philbin, The Temptations, Lorna Luft, Crystal Gayle, Al Martino, Ed Shaunesshy, Jon Faddis and Bobby Watson. He can be heard as a tenor saxophone soloist on the CD Catt’s Sunday Jazz Brunch Big Band Project
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