Join us for a free guest artist series performance by award-winning saxophonist, touring musician, and recording artist Matthew Younglove, Monday, January 22, 2024, 8:00 p.m., in Turner Recital Hall. This is a free event with tickets required for admission.
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Venue: Turner Hall, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music
Address: 2400 Blakemore Ave., Nashville, TN 37212
Parking: Free parking is available at the Vanderbilt West Parking Garage on Childrens Way, directly across from Blair School of Music. Due to construction on 25th Ave. South, enter the West Garage on 24th Ave. South.
About Matthew Younglove:
Award-winning concert saxophonist Matthew Younglove has performed concerts and recitals across the United States, France, Croatia, and the UK. He currently serves on the faculty of Tennessee Tech University as assistant professor of saxophone.
Younglove is a Presser Scholar and graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Carolina where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Saxophone Performance, studying with the Charles J. Mungo Award-winning Distinguished Professor Clifford Leaman. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree specializing in contemporary music from Bowling Green State University, where he was the saxophone teaching assistant for Distinguished Research/Artist Professor John Sampen, and a Master of Music degree in saxophone performance from Northwestern University.
As an expert interpreter of contemporary music, he has commissioned and/or premiered works by many composers, including Jon Anderson, Matthew Browne, Ian Dicke, George Fetner, Simon Fink, Claudio Gabriele, Kurt Isaacson, Girard Kratz, Joel Love, David Maslanka, Marc Mellits, Elise Roy, Chris Rutkowski, Baljinder Sekhon, Marilyn Shrude, Carlos Simon, Benjamin Taylor, Gregory Wanamaker, Amy Williams, and Eric Wubbels.
Younglove is a member of the award-winning Assembly Quartet and frequently tours the US and abroad performing concerts and engaging in educational outreach performances. He is a Vandoren Artist Clinician, playing Vandoren reeds and mouthpieces, and a Conn-Selmer Artist Clinician, playing Selmer (Paris) saxophones exclusively. As a recording artist he can be heard on the AMP label.