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Yamaha Performing Artist Dr. Jeffery Kyle Hutchins is active as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser, educator, and performance artist. Praised for his “formidable technique” and “enviable uniformity of tone” (The Saxophone Symposium) and described as a “skilled improviser, no doubt about it” (I Care If You Listen), Hutchins has performed in Asia, Europe and across North America. He has appeared on more than ten albums on record labels such as Avid Sound Records, Emeritus Records, GIA Publications, Farpoint Recordings, and Klavier Records, and has been awarded grants and competition prizes from DOWNBEAT, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, and New Music USA, among others. As an advocate of new music, Hutchins has participated in the creation of more than 130 new works and regularly performs with groups 113 (One Thirteen), AVIDduo, Binary Canary, the Broken Consort, The Poem is Done, Renegade Ensemble, and Strains New Music Ensemble. Hutchins received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the University of Minnesota where he was a recipient of the prestigious Berneking Fellowship and a student of Eugene Rousseau. He has degrees in Music Education and Saxophone Performance from the University of North Texas where he studied with Eric Nestler. Hutchins teaches classical and jazz saxophone at Virginia Tech and directs the VT Jazz Lab Band and New Music Ensemble.
7 Sept 2018
Yamaha Performing Artist Dr. Jeffery Kyle Hutchins is active as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser, educator, and performance artist. Praised for his “formidable technique” and “enviable uniformity of tone” (The Saxophone Symposium) and described as a “skilled improviser, no doubt about it” (I Care If You Listen), Hutchins has performed in Asia, Europe and across North America. He has appeared on more than ten albums on record labels such as Avid Sound Records, Emeritus Records, GIA Publications, Farpoint Recordings, and Klavier Records, and has been awarded grants and competition prizes from DOWNBEAT, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, and New Music USA, among others. As an advocate of new music, Hutchins has participated in the creation of more than 130 new works and regularly performs with groups 113 (One Thirteen), AVIDduo, Binary Canary, the Broken Consort, The Poem is Done, Renegade Ensemble, and Strains New Music Ensemble. Hutchins received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the University of Minnesota where he was a recipient of the prestigious Berneking Fellowship and a student of Eugene Rousseau. He has degrees in Music Education and Saxophone Performance from the University of North Texas where he studied with Eric Nestler. Hutchins teaches classical and jazz saxophone at Virginia Tech and directs the VT Jazz Lab Band and New Music Ensemble.
7 Sept 2018